Looking for near-future Weapons/Gear resources

[elessard]

I'm currently running a d20M campaign going on in the year 2020 and I'm looking for some good resources (books, web sites, ideas, etc.) where I could find near-future weapons and gear my players could equip their characters with.

I know the Spycraft rule book has some gadgets in it, but I'm not too sure if they can be converted easily to d20M, and if there is enough of them to justify buying the book.

I looked at Spycraft Arms and Equipment Guide, but it doesn't seem to contain any kind of gear or gadgets. Same with Ultramodern firearms from Green Ronin.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

What specificaly are you looking for? If your looking for lazer guns or the like you could just change the discrption of the weapon. I don't see why that wouldn't work.

 

[elessard]

What specificaly are you looking for? If your looking for lazer guns or the like you could just change the discrption of the weapon. I don't see why that wouldn't work.

I'm mostly looking for futuristic equipment, gadgets, drugs, etc. Basically, items technology could make possible 20 years down the road, like a stamina booster drug that temporarily increases your number of HPs, or a tiny yet extra-powerfull, voice-activated PDA that can also be used as a digital camera, cell-phone, audio-recorder, etc.

The gadgets presented in the Spycraft Lite rules are also good examples of what I'm looking for.

 

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

For futureistic drugs. The first thing that comes to mind that would give a person extra hp would be a drug that when used gives a person the Barbarian rage attack. The down side that it would be addictive. you'd have to keep track of how much the characters use. Eventually you could start to throw them penelties for use. I'll post some other stuff tonight.

 

[Moonsword]

Okay, on the subject of equipment, look aorund at modern technology, and square it. Holography would be well-known, if not common-place, and smaller communications devices with more functionality would be the norm. Computers are more powerful, and the Web is still aorund, though the old constants are probably gone. This stuff help?

 

[Cergorach]

You might want to have a look at Aeon/Trinity...

 

[elessard]

What I would like to be able to do is take rules from other rulebooks (like the gadgets from Spycraft) and use them almost as-is in my campaign. I could look at the current technology and try extrapolate what things will look like in 20 years, but this is going to take me a lot of time. And unfortunately, time is something I don't have a lot of...

That's the reason I was asking if there were a lot of gadgets in the Spycraft book, or near-futur equipment in other published or online products that could be used as near-future weapons and equipment in d20M.

What about Star Wars? Do they only have very advanced technology, or they have something similar to Alternity where they define Progress Levels and give a list of weapons and equipment available for the PL?

 

[Psyckosama]

Although it'll take some effort to convert, take a look at the GURPS Ultra-Tech books... Lots 'o' fun stuff

 

[Bagpuss]

I think one of the more revolutionary devices you are likely to see in the not so distant future is 3D printers that can 'print' a mobile-phone, PDA, remote control, etc. While you wait.

They are pretty slow, large and in the development stage, but like most electronic devices they will get smaller and faster.

 

[Plane Sailing]

If you would like to see a fascinating prospect in the world of sidearms, look up metalstorm on google, or take a look at their prototype here:

http://www.metalstorm.com/12_odwyervle/prototype.html

You'd have to make up the d20 stats yourself, but I can think of some interesting possibilities.

Cheers