Good d20M one-shots

[Bran Blackbyrd]

I will NOT be called a threadkiller. :\

You'd better reply Charlie Brown, or I'll slug you!

 

[VirgilCaine]

I really wish Wizards would release some free adventures that don't use a shred of FX. Come on guys, we get it already; "If you like D&D, you'll like D20 Modern." We know, we know. Now, please, give us something without the boogiemen.

Lets see, there's the one with the mixed up luggage, theres Adelie 14, set in Antarctica. Both of these seem good for one shots, but they aren't good for continued play.

 

[buzz]

You'd better reply Charlie Brown, or I'll slug you!

Rats. :\

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Seriously, why don't we write up some adventures and post them here? How about we brainstorm some adventure ideas, and decide (perhaps by poll) which one to start with?

I nominate some kind of blackmail

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Seriously, why don't we write up some adventures and post them here? How about we brainstorm some adventure ideas, and decide (perhaps by poll) which one to start with?

I nominate some kind of blackmail

OK.
I have incriminating pictures of you. Post an adventure and no one has to see them.

 

[SweeneyTodd]

Hey, guys.

I just wanted to come back to this thread to say that the creator of "Quickshots Mission File: Alpha" is an unbelievably cool guy whose patience with customers goes way past what I'd be able to do if I were in his shoes.

I'd purchased the product after reading this thread, and had a little RPGNow.com glitch. Tim made three different attempts to get the file to me, and while I feel bad to have put him through so much hassle, I'm really glad to get the product. It's quality.

So, anyway, good guy, good product, I was impressed enough that I wanted to let people know.

 

[C. Baize]

Yeah. He's good to work with, too.

 

[Cowpie Zombie]

Well, Wizards has a free adventure called Trouble at Blackrock that I love.
Unfortunately it sort of falls into the FX and kill monsters categories.
What I like about it is that it's very easy to alter the adventure into pretty much whatever you want. I haven't run it yet, but I made it so that instead of magic, the "creatures" in it are the result of alien technology that arrived on earth during the Tunguska Event, ended up in Nazi hands, and finally made its way to the US. This segues quite nicely into Wizard's No Man's Land adventure, which has to do with WWII and can be expained the same way I explain the creatures in Blackrock.

I really wish Wizards would release some free adventures that don't use a shred of FX. Come on guys, we get it already; "If you like D&D, you'll like D20 Modern." We know, we know. Now, please, give us something without the boogiemen.

Now I don't mean to go off on a rant here, but am I the only one who thinks it's a bit funny to hear someone criticize the "FX" and magic in D20 Modern, and then talk about using alien technology in its place? As if alien technology is somehow more "realistic" than magic or monsters. Please, dudes...magic, monsters, psionics, alien technology, government conspiracies...it's all fantasy. If you really want a "realistic" game, play a World War II war game or something.

"Yeah, I thought the idea of a Mage was unrealistic, so in its place I'm using a psionic assassin with a cybernetically-enhanced exoskeleton he received from the alien lords of Jupiter."

[gasp, pant, pant] Okay, rant over.

 

[Cowpie Zombie]

I really wish Wizards would release some free adventures that don't use a shred of FX. Come on guys, we get it already; "If you like D&D, you'll like D20 Modern." We know, we know. Now, please, give us something without the boogiemen.

Actually, I just thought of a good idea for this: players could take the role of mid-level functionaries in a major corporation. Their mission is to foil hostile takeovers while advancing their own climb up the corporate ladder. Adversaries include the Hostile Supervisor, the Seductive Secretary, and the Bean-Counting Supplies Manager.

Man, sounds like fun. Who needs boogiemen?

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Although "The Petersen Counterstrike" is the first part in the FX-heavy Heartless mini-campaign, it DOES also stand alone as a non-FX one-off adventure.

Plus, there are more non-FX adventures in the pipeline. I recently handed one in entitled "Crisis on Canyon Road" and I'm working on another (whose title I'm not yet ready to reveal). I'm slated to do at least 4 d20 Modern adventures for the web site this year, and I plan to make MOST of them non-FX-based.

The BIG problem, design wise, is that these are supposed to be short adventures. Without the room to write complex encounters and interesting opponents, non-FX adventures tend to look very similar to one another.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Feel free to spread them around to any other boards you like.

Now I don't mean to go off on a rant here, but am I the only one who thinks it's a bit funny to hear someone criticize the "FX" and magic in D20 Modern, and then talk about using alien technology in its place?

Not everyone is interested in alien worms, weird tech or what not - that's an easy substitution to do.

In the Petersen Counterstrike (just as a one-shot) there's no alien tech, no mind-control worms, no psionics, no magic, no overscience gadgets like sliding, nothing of the kind ... and that's just the way some people like it. There's still an interesting plot and combat too