Good D20 sourcebooks to use!

[tecnowraith]

I need help! What are good D20 sourcebooks to use when designing a world that Horror or Scifi (as in non space travel)? I like to see these books have alternate rules in them as well. I know there is the OGL books from Mongoose and Monte Cook's but any others? Any suggestions?

 

[Welverin]

There's Grim Tales by Bad Axe, though I haven't gotten it yet so I can't say how close it is to what you want. Hopefully some one who ahs or Wulf himself will pop in soon.

A horror preview can be found here.

 

[tecnowraith]

Any others?

 

[talien]

Any others?

Horror

• D20 Horror
• All Flesh Must Be Eaten RPG
• Blood and Brains: The Zombie Hunter's Guide
• Ravenloft RPG

Sci-Fi

• Armageddon 2089 RPG
• Blood and Space: D20 Starship Adventure Toolkit
• D20 Mecha RPG
• Darwin's World: Post Apocalyptic Adventures
• Gamma World: Player's Handbook
• Horizons: Redline
• Traveller20: The Traveller's Handbook

Hope that helps!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

There's Grim Tales by Bad Axe, though I haven't gotten it yet so I can't say how close it is to what you want. Hopefully some one who ahs or Wulf himself will pop in soon.

A horror preview can be found here.

If you're just looking for a rulebook, I would definitely recommend Grim Tales (natch!) as it contains rules for just about anything you want to run (and yet, I think, remains lite enough to allow you to emphasize story).

If you are looking for settings or background material, I am not afraid to steer you away from Grim Tales, which really contains no background info.

As for the Horror preview linked above, it's actually quite a bit older than the version that made it into Grim Tales (which is greatly simplified)-- but the rules there are still a pretty good representation of Grim Tales' approach to Horror (and rules design in general).

Wulf

 

[Zombie_Defiler]

Darwin's World is awesome! Recommend to everyone.

 

[Voadam]

Here are some suggestions for Horror

Ravenloft campaign setting 3.0 or Ravenloft PH contains madness, horror, and taint of evil rules plus some neat expansions on some classic horror templates, alignment and direct communication with the gods are always hidden.

Denizens of dread is a monster book for ravenloft with great monsters and lots of templates.

Skip the ravenloft heroes and villains books, they are pretty poor.

Bodies and Souls is a pdf with 20 possession templates.

Look in the modern srd arcana and menace manual sections for new cool monsters, many appropriate to scifi or horror.

Call of Cthulhu d20 is a complete on its own supernatural modern horror game with alternate sanity blasting magic and "Things man was not meant to know".

Rokugan Campaign setting, an oriental adventures setting with an area of "taint" and lots of creatures lost to taint.

Mystic Eye Games has a bunch of D&D adventure collections with horror themes as well as two horror themed monster books. These are mostly both in print and available as pdfs as well.

 

[jaerdaph]

I highly recommend either OGL Horror by Mongoose Publishing or Grim Tales by Bad Axe Games.

For what you want to do specifically, OGL Horror would probably serve you better "out of the box" though.

 

[skippy_the_witch]

If you are also looking for Techno-magic Science Fantasy sourcebooks that can be added to just about any system I cannot recommend enough Perpetrated Press's Arsenal and Factory. They are responsible (along with the whole OGL d20 concept which spawned them) for me again starting to GM after 15+ year hiatus.

skippy
GM of Cursed Earth

 

[Necropolis]

HI

Well if you want something scary, something with loads of horror, very new and original try any of the books from Bottled imp games
www.bottledimpgames.com

They have a book about vampires a book about liches and an upcoming book about zombies taht will also feature more things about necromancers and other great new things , all of their books are Really the BEST on the market, any gm or a player or even people that like d&d but don't play can use a good read from the creative minds of BIG.

Trully a Masterpiece !!!