d20 Past art gallery up...

[jaerdaph]

Yay! Here come the WotC is an Evil Conspiracy Posts from dysfunctional gamers!

 

[JPL]

Actually...the more I think about it, the more...what's the word...absurd that comment is.

Why would Eberron need to be "synergistically enhanced" by a d20 Modern product? Looks to me like it's somehow clinging to life on its own.

 

[The Shaman]

It's not d20 Past... It's d20 PULP!

Exactly. :\

After my initial disappointment at the implications of the artwork, I'm trying to regain my "cautious optimism" of the last few months anticipating the arrival of d20 Past. I'm going to hope that not all of the AdCs and PrCs are represented by the gallery, so that a span of 400 years of history is not represented by just one or two drips from the tap (based on the artwork, musketeer appears to be the only AdC targetted at the period before about 1850). I'm hoping that in terms of page count the four spell-casting AdCs don't take up more than 8 pages, that the spells don't take up more than 6, and that the monsters don't take up more than 10, so that less than 30% of the page count has nothing to do with the "historical" roleplaying as we've been told for months the book would contain, so that we have a shot at something like 60 pages from the number one publisher in gaming devoted to something other than rehashing D&D again

Yessir and yesma'am, I'm trying to regain that ol' cautious optimism.

"...I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard...." :\

 

[Yuan-Ti]

Yay! Here come the WotC is an Evil Conspiracy Posts from dysfunctional gamers!

Wait, can we settle for "incompetent megacorp"?

 

[broghammerj]

The art looks spectacular. As for the nudity, Oh, no there goes goes the neighborhood........

Based on some people's expressed disappointment I'm curious as to what people would want from this product? Some of the most popular genres as JPL said are, pirates/swashbucklers, Victorian horror, and pulp/cliffhangers. What other sort of areas did you want this to cover?

WWII/WWI are an area I hope is represented and by the art it appears to be included. Wild west should be touched upon and it appears to be with the marshall character. The art suggests being able to carry out a Jules Vern type story very well with the scientist and steamtank from Ch 5.

I would hope this product wouldn't encompass anything earlier in the Renaissance as you are starting to get into DND type timeline.

 

[Wombat]

I dunno.

I looked at the art and for the most part went "shurg". Not bad by any means, but nothing at all exciting or interesting either. It just kinda sits there.

Oh well, different tastes.

 

[JPL]

Well, there's only so much you can do in that number of pages. If this books gives a good set of basic tools for handling different eras with the d20 Modern rules, then I am content.

And I hope that some other designers take this material and build upon upon it [betcha it ends up in the SRD in short order], because each era we're talking about could easily support a book of its own [and a much bigger book than this].

Historical reference books are easy to come by...and I turn to GURPS supplements for good gamer-oriented historical details.

What we will probably get from d20 Past are some basic rules for covering different progress levels, some crunchy bits to give us some of the flavor of these different periods, and some era/genre notes for three or four of the more popular campaign types.

 

[GMSkarka]

Hmmm.

Pirates? Check.

Pulp? Check.

 

[jaerdaph]

I'm going to hope that not all of the AdCs and PrCs are represented by the gallery, so that a span of 400 years of history is not represented by just one or two drips from the tap (based on the artwork, musketeer appears to be the only AdC targetted at the period before about 1850).

Evil capitalist plot to promote the Eberron setting at all costs that this book so clearly is aside ( ) , I hope you're right. 96 pages should mean less artwork, so perhaps every AdC/PrC didn't get illustrated. There appears to be a pirate setting implied in the other artwork, so hopefully we'll see a class or two there, for example.

 

[jaerdaph]

Wait, can we settle for "incompetent megacorp"?

You know T$R gave a HUGE campaign contribution to [INSERT NAME OF POLITICAL CANDIDATE YOU VOTED AGAINST HERE], don't you?

All just to get Eberron approved by the FDA before proper safety testing can be completed!