d20 Past?

[Brother Shatterstone]

I would most definatley love running a civil war era historical campaign, that would be a blast.

I imagine that would be a hard campaign to fill in person but if you take it to the net you can consider me their.

I obviously prefer a PbP format.

 

[Jer]

so if d20 Past is only going back to 1450, is there going to be another supplement for earlier times?

d20 Paster?

d20 Even More Past?

I like "d20 Past the Past" myself...

But seriously, could there be "d20 Antiquity" or "d20 Ancient World" settings, or would these overlap too much with D&D? I think that the Renaissance starting point for d20 Past is probably because D&D is considered to be the "Middle Ages" area, so a "d20 Middle Ages" might be seen as redundant. Would the same be said for other pre-Renaissance settings?

(Victorian Horror and Pulp Action both have me excited, but I think I'll run Victorian Action and Pulp Horror instead....)

 

[d4]

But seriously, could there be "d20 Antiquity" or "d20 Ancient World" settings, or would these overlap too much with D&D? I think that the Renaissance starting point for d20 Past is probably because D&D is considered to be the "Middle Ages" area, so a "d20 Middle Ages" might be seen as redundant. Would the same be said for other pre-Renaissance settings?

i see your point about the perception of overlap, but i'd still like to see it. i much prefer the d20 Modern base classes and default magic level (i.e., rare and lower-powered) to D&D... so for me at least, it wouldn't be redundant at all. a d20 Modern-based medieval fantasy game would be very different from a typical D&D campaign.

(if there's any redundancy, it'd more be with Grim Tales than D&D.)

 

[drothgery]

so if d20 Past is only going back to 1450, is there going to be another supplement for earlier times?

And if it stops with 1945, is there going to be d20 Recent Past for 1945-1995 (d20M core is probably good enough for 1995-2005)?

 

[Jer]

i see your point about the perception of overlap, but i'd still like to see it. i much prefer the d20 Modern base classes and default magic level (i.e., rare and lower-powered) to D&D... so for me at least, it wouldn't be redundant at all. a d20 Modern-based medieval fantasy game would be very different from a typical D&D campaign.

Well, yeah. The amount of overlap is actually quite minimal, and the game balance issues of dropping the magic level in D&D to something approaching zero can really mess things up, but the perception is that D&D is for Middle Ages/Fantasy gaming and if d20 Modern moves into this area it might seem like its moving into D&D's "turf".

I could maybe see them doing something "dual-statted" for both D20 Modern and D&D, but even then I doubt Wizards would do something like that (it doesn't seem like something that would be hugely popular, though I'd buy a copy). Maybe some enterprising third party would be interested in doing a historical setting for d20 Modern?

And if it stops with 1945, is there going to be d20 Recent Past for 1945-1995 (d20M core is probably good enough for 1995-2005)?

The catalog entry actually says it covers from 1450 to 1950, so you'd really just need from 1950-1995

Seriously, the d20 Modern core should easily cover the "Modern" era (post WWII to present) without difficulty. It just would take an enterprising someone to write up a campaign for "d20 50's Atomic Horrors" or something. Polyhedron had a 70's inspired "Cannonball Run"-style game, and while it isn't d20 Modern, Spycraft does 60's style James Bond pretty well and I could see it working just as well in d20 Modern.

I'm actually really looking forward to d20 Past quite a bit - James Wyatt is one of my favorite WotC writers and I'm liking the d20 Modern system quite a bit. My only hope is that the book is actually more than 96 pages (even 128 pages would be nice). I do like the 19.95 price point though