d20 Post-Modern?

[takyris]

Anybody heard anything about the new d20 Post-Modern coming out in 2005? I hear that it adds some really cool class options, like letting your Strong hero obviate the metatextual paradigm of strength perceived by the dominant cultural inference point or giving your Smart hero Transgress Across Self-Perceived Class Inheritors, which I think lets him or her (or more specifically, that character, since the character is not constrained by a reductionist Western mindset with regard to gender identification) add Wisdom modifier to Defense, maybe, depending on what "Sociodiscernment paradox rationalization" means. I'm a little concerned about them adding new core abilities like "Polemic", which is sort of going to take the place of alignment or allegiances, I guess, but I'll have to see how it plays.

Anyone crunched numbers on dialectic attacks? Can you really get your rhetorical damage up to the point where it forces a Massive Damage Will save to avoid being subverted by the dominant paradigm (which is either stunned or nauseated, according to the designers)?

Thanks!

 

[Arrgh! Mark!]

*laughs*

I do hope there is a lot of focus on the potential paradigm shift of a dissiasociative academic context, though. I think it'd do d8 damage to all western dominated gender forms.

 

[Tom Cashel]

I heard they're replacing Feats with Memes.

 

[Plane Sailing]

The big problem is for DM's, since it expressly forbids over-arching campaign stories, but the situational alignment might make it worth the cover price alone.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Possibly the biggest issue for me was that instead of parties achieving set goals, fighting evil, and getting treasure, rather, the party wins accolades for deconstructing oppressive paradigms. And so as to not reward any outstanding success, when play begins, the stat of every PC is reduced to the worst stat of the collective party.


Regards,
Eric Anondson