D20 Modern Spectaculars Canceled
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HeapThaumaturgist
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Well, if Wizards DOES do a Marvel RPG, I do hope it is at least compatible with d20Modern. I would imagine their deal with Marvel would probably prohibit them from releasing just a "supplement" to Modern for it.
Honestly? I think it would work wonderfully if they just reproduced alot of the d20Modern material in a special hardback Marvel Supers RPG game. I'm sure it would cheese off the d20Modern players who have to "pay" for "Stuff they already have" when they buy the book, but it might increase player-base for d20Modern.
--fje
Honestly? I think it would work wonderfully if they just reproduced alot of the d20Modern material in a special hardback Marvel Supers RPG game. I'm sure it would cheese off the d20Modern players who have to "pay" for "Stuff they already have" when they buy the book, but it might increase player-base for d20Modern.
--fje
RangerWickett
Legend
hobgoblin said:
Just to give you a sense of what's available, if you'd like I could send you a complimentary copy of E.N. Publishing's d20 Modern superhero supplement.
Graf
Explorer
That’s a shame. I was looking forward to this.
The last few modern books (more-random-futuristic-stuff!) haven’t been very interesting.
A super power focused game would have been cool.
While I’m no M&M expert the rules system for that game sounds completely different than “normal” modern.
I’d been keenly looking forward to a way to have a ruleset for adding super-abilities (or some super abilities) to a modern setting.
With the currency they burned producing some of the weaker books recently (past, and the could-have-been-great-but-we-had-to-rush Cyber-book) it would have been a bit tricky, but a good book could have built word of mouth and gotten Future-level sales I would think.
Still a marvel deal is big I suppose; and the spectaculars core could be used for a marvel game….
But “real” comic book universes are almost impossible to accurately portray in games. In the comics character’s abilities, personalities and backstories change to match the writer and plot. The superpowers are just for storytelling effect and work so differently its almost silly to try to make a (detail oriented DnD style) roleplaying game based around them.
The last few modern books (more-random-futuristic-stuff!) haven’t been very interesting.
A super power focused game would have been cool.
While I’m no M&M expert the rules system for that game sounds completely different than “normal” modern.
I’d been keenly looking forward to a way to have a ruleset for adding super-abilities (or some super abilities) to a modern setting.
With the currency they burned producing some of the weaker books recently (past, and the could-have-been-great-but-we-had-to-rush Cyber-book) it would have been a bit tricky, but a good book could have built word of mouth and gotten Future-level sales I would think.
Still a marvel deal is big I suppose; and the spectaculars core could be used for a marvel game….
But “real” comic book universes are almost impossible to accurately portray in games. In the comics character’s abilities, personalities and backstories change to match the writer and plot. The superpowers are just for storytelling effect and work so differently its almost silly to try to make a (detail oriented DnD style) roleplaying game based around them.
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