D20 Modern: Code Name FISH

[D20ModernGuru]

I am currently running an online D20 Modern Game called Code Name FISH.

FISH or Federal Investigation of Supernatural Happenings which investigates alien activity.

One of the players and I have put together so much information for the game I am considering turning it into a full fledged game.

My question is has anyone done an Alien Investigation/MIB style game with D20 modern and if so did you enjoy it?

 

[Von Ether]

With d20 Modern, no. But it is a good set up, that's basically why WotC included "Dept 7" in the game.

Btw, in my games the PC were a W.H.A.T., or Wierd Happenings Assesment Team. ... Okay, I was 17 at the time I came up with that. Forgive me.

 

[D20ModernGuru]

With d20 Modern, no. But it is a good set up, that's basically why WotC included "Dept 7" in the game.

Btw, in my games the PC were a W.H.A.T., or Wierd Happenings Assesment Team. ... Okay, I was 17 at the time I came up with that. Forgive me.

Well actually the game is going to be a D20 modern setting with plenty of background for the players to go on, information about FISH, what they do, and all kinds of neat backgrounds. I have started work on it and so far I am very happy with what I have come up with.

 

[Henry]

My question is has anyone done an Alien Investigation/MIB style game with D20 modern and if so did you enjoy it?

I did a d20 Modern game that was a mix of "Call of Cthulhu" and "Special Unit 2" I fleshed out the Departments (Department-1 through Department-7) and built a mythos around the Mythos. Basically, the Stars were Right from about 1999 onward, and the world is slowly descending into madness -- but there were a crop of people with abnormal psych. profiles who resisted the insanity of the horrors around them - some said it was mental "hardness", some said it was that the people inducted into Dept. 7 were ALREADY crazy... whatever the reason, they were the ones who went out, infiltrated the cults, and blew the out of the eldritch horrors that were summoned.

We had a blast with that game, and I even ran a session as a d20 Modern Demo for an ENWorld Gameday once. One of the running in-jokes was the PC's watching people going crazy left and right around them, as they stayed sane. It solved two problems:

1) Several of my players either had rational problems with or just plain disliked the sanity system in CoC.
2) It had some great comedic effect to an otherwise very tense and bloody game.
3) It solved the problem of why the PC's were so special, why they were in charge of field work (they were the equivalent of "007's"), and also why they disliked calling for or being supplied with backup. It was funny to watch them call for a squad of Special Forces, and watching the special forces flip out while weilding fully automatic weapons.
4) It ALSO solved the problem of why people with heavy combat training were in the same unit as doctors and playwrights. There just weren't enough Dept. 7's to go around.

 

[D20ModernGuru]

I did a d20 Modern game that was a mix of "Call of Cthulhu" and "Special Unit 2" I fleshed out the Departments (Department-1 through Department-7) and built a mythos around the Mythos. Basically, the Stars were Right from about 1999 onward, and the world is slowly descending into madness -- but there were a crop of people with abnormal psych. profiles who resisted the insanity of the horrors around them - some said it was mental "hardness", some said it was that the people inducted into Dept. 7 were ALREADY crazy... whatever the reason, they were the ones who went out, infiltrated the cults, and blew the out of the eldritch horrors that were summoned.

We had a blast with that game, and I even ran a session as a d20 Modern Demo for an ENWorld Gameday once.

Well my players are enjoying themselves quite well as it is. Right now I am using D20 MOdern and information from D20 Menace.

The D20 Modern: FISH book I am working on will have plenty of information on aliens, what the agency is abuot, etc.

I figured since the group loves the game and the background is really well fleshed out why not.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

 

[Michael Morris]

You might wanna use our pretty new d20 modern logo for this thread guru. To apply it edit your first post

 

[Von Ether]

Well my players are enjoying themselves quite well as it is. Right now I am using D20 MOdern and information from D20 Menace.

The D20 Modern: FISH book I am working on will have plenty of information on aliens, what the agency is abuot, etc.

I figured since the group loves the game and the background is really well fleshed out why not.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Good luck on the book. I know that since Delta Green d20 and D20 Dark Matter haven't hit the shelves yet (and Dark Matter is still a maybe) there is some room in the market for such a d20 Modern book.

 

[Chingerspy]

Very very interested to see what you come up with. I would be interested in buying a product like this!

Drop me an email at

tone at gamingden dot com

If you ever decide to write it up or PDF it

 

[D20ModernGuru]

You might wanna use our pretty new d20 modern logo for this thread guru. To apply it edit your first post

Done

 

[D20ModernGuru]

Good luck on the book. I know that since Delta Green d20 and D20 Dark Matter haven't hit the shelves yet (and Dark Matter is still a maybe) there is some room in the market for such a d20 Modern book.

I appreciate the good thoughts. Since right now I am doing a game for a game company already it will be a bit down the road, but hopefully not too far.