d20 Weapons Locker/Fire Power the same thing?

[johnsemlak]

Someone sent us the following scoop. Anyone know more about it?

I was told by WOTC that the book Firepower was the old, prospective name for what has become D20 Weapons Locker. They are the same book

 

[JPL]

That was my assumption, but I don't know of any official verification.

Whatever it's called, I preordered it a couple weeks back. Should be fun.

 

[Spatula]

What I don't get is what the Weapons Locker book is supposed to cover that hasn't already been done by Ultramodern Firearms.

 

[Ranger REG]

They say the book will be more than just personal firearms. Besides, it will be written by Rich Redman, not Charles Ryan, who wrote UMF (under the Green Ronin Publishing label).

Funny, you didn't mention Modern Arms Guide, nor that e-book by Dana_Jorgensen. Personally, I like options.

EDIT: corrected name.

 

[bubbalin]

On this topic, has anybody taken a look at that book that Fast Forward was going to publish on weapons?

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

They say the book will be more than just personal firearms. Besides, it will be written by Rich Redman, not Charles Ryan, who wrote UMF (under the Green Ronin Publishing label).

Funny, you didn't mention Modern Arms Guide, nor that e-book by Dana Jurgensen. Personally, I like options.

You rang?

Nobody really knows much about Either WotC's Weapons Locker or FF's Encyclopedia Vanguard: D20 Modern. I assume from both that they're intended to expand beyond firearms in both cases.

On the other hand, I'm more than happy to spill the beans about the 2003 Compendium for Big Bang: The Mostly Illustrated RPG Guide to Modern Weapons. The 2003 Compendium compiles everything released during 2003, including a number of freebies published in a few magazines and elsewhere. It also adds over 100 new weapons, including the first coverage of sniper weapons, military explosive devices, and shotguns. All weapons get the usual treatment of extensive technical and historical details, real world performance data, illustration or photographs, and stat blocks for each individual game system covered. It's also not just a D20 Modern book. It provides licensed coverage of six game systems, plus an entire replacement firearms combat system for D20-based games. Everything is being reformatted for cleaner appearance as well. And did I mention the book is over 400 pages long, compared to les than 200 pages for the others? Oh, and the PDF version will include some multimedia enhancements and built in tools as well.

Needless to say, February and March may be rather interesting months. Weapons Locker will be released, Encyclopedia Vanguard should be out "any time now" (was listed as due December 15, 2003) and my own Big Bang 2003 Compendium (including the as yet unpublished volume 5) will be hitting paper (and electrons) during February as well. People will have a lot of options available for them as far as weapons are concerned. However, I can say with a fair amount of confidence, I expect that I'm the only one who will be printing a second weapon book next year. I'll be doing weapon books until I've covered everything made since about 1850, and that's a lot of guns and ammo.

 

[bubbalin]

So Dana, are you putting out a book in print?
Just clarifying...

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

So Dana, are you putting out a book in print?
Just clarifying...

Yes. There's enough demand for it, so its time to start putting the series on dead trees. PDFs will be released throughout the year, since there is a large following for the product in that format, and once or twice a year, depending upon how prolific my writing is, there will be a compiled compendium released in print, covering everything released in PDF since the prior compendium.

 

[JPL]

Y'know, once I get Weapons Locker, I will have to give serious thought to running the sort of old-school shoot-em-up I used to run in high school with Top Secret/S.I. and its Commando supplement. Just as a one-shot.

[edit: started a new thread with further thoughts]

 

[BernieS]

They say the book will be more than just personal firearms. Besides, it will be written by Rich Redman, not Charles Ryan, who wrote UMF (under the Green Ronin Publishing label).

Funny, you didn't mention Modern Arms Guide, nor that e-book by Dana_Jorgensen. Personally, I like options.

EDIT: corrected name.

Keith Potter wrote the book and I believe Richard Stewart and N. David Martin did the illustrations. I saw the original art they planned on using for the front cover years ago (it seems) and I recall, correctly I belive, that Richard said is was by Joe Wight of Antarctic Press fame. So who knows...

They were bouncing arouund a thread that was titled Modern Firearms 1950-2000 or something like that.