[d20 Modern] My campaign idea

[JPL]

Something I've been wanting to do for a long time...just been waiting for the right system...

Challengers of the Unknown/Buckaroo Banzai/Doc Savage. An eclectic team of adventurer/scientists travel the world exploring unexplained phenomena and fighting threats that conventional science can't even comprehend.

Despite the "investigator" premise, the emphasis will be on lots of action. Imagine a TV show where the first fifteen minutes is "X-Files", but by the last fifteen it's escalated to "Men in Black".

Oh, and I do want to structure this like a TV show --- the TV show I'd make if I could. Encourage the players to "cast" their characters as a B-movie fan favorite --- Bruce Campbell, Dwight Schultz, and Alexander Siddig are are expected to appear. And I'd like to do the same thing with the NPCs --- all recognizable faces who, in an ideal world, would have a very high-budget syndicated pulp adventure sc-fi show.

Anyone else have any plans or daydreams for the new game?

 

[TheDayKnight]

I am working on a post-apocalyptic setting. It will be set several hundred years after a huge meteor hits the earth.

 

[ascendance]

Why wait for D20 Modern? Start now. Buy Adventure!... the GAMA-award winning game, and definitely the best game WW's ever released. I do recommend removing the artificial delineations between daredevils, mesmerists, and umm... whatever the third one is, though. Still, its the best pulp action game out there. It plain rocks.

 

[hong]

Something I've been wanting to do for a long time...just been waiting for the right system...

Challengers of the Unknown/Buckaroo Banzai/Doc Savage. An eclectic team of adventurer/scientists travel the world exploring unexplained phenomena and fighting threats that conventional science can't even comprehend.

Despite the "investigator" premise, the emphasis will be on lots of action. Imagine a TV show where the first fifteen minutes is "X-Files", but by the last fifteen it's escalated to "Men in Black".

Oh, and I do want to structure this like a TV show --- the TV show I'd make if I could. Encourage the players to "cast" their characters as a B-movie fan favorite --- Bruce Campbell, Dwight Schultz, and Alexander Siddig are are expected to appear. And I'd like to do the same thing with the NPCs --- all recognizable faces who, in an ideal world, would have a very high-budget syndicated pulp adventure sc-fi show.

Your setup seems tailor-made for Spycraft. Just dump the Shadowforce: Archer setting if you don't like having a Conspiracy in the background.

 

[JPL]

Y'know...I've heard great things about Spycraft, but I'm gonna hold off until d20 Modern comes out and then make the call. The potential for a system cobining the flexibility of GURPS with the familiarity of d20...this could be my main game.

I have Adventure!, although I haven't played it yet. An impressive piece of work, and I'm thinking about integrating the Dramatic Editing rules into other games.

 

[EarthsShadow]

Adventure?

What's Adventure?????????????

 

[Dartnet X]

Adventure! is a game by White Wolf.

It's the prequile to Aberrant. It uses the staryteller system. Great ideas, thoe the tules are incompleat. Add to this the game has been all but canned.

dartnet X

 

[JPL]

Adventure! is a game by White Wolf.

It's the prequile to Aberrant. It uses the staryteller system. Great ideas, thoe the tules are incompleat. Add to this the game has been all but canned.

dartnet X

Well...it was always intended to be a stand-alone, no-additional-products game...so it's not "canned" so much as "complete."

EarthsShadow...it's a 1920s pulp game with a strong dose of the comic book "Planetary." And it has some neat stuff.

But if I do a pulp game, I'll probably run it with d20 Modern and Gurps Cliffhangers, with Polyhedron's "Pulp Heroes" to fill the gaps.