Menace Manual and Dark*Matter?

[Desdichado]

I don't have the Menace Manual for d20 Modern, but I was flipping through the art gallery for a few minutes this morning while waiting for some other folks to call into a conference call, and was surprised to see the Hoffman Institute logo as one of the illustrations. I was already, from looking at the other pictures, put in mind of Dark*Matter, but that is purely Dark*Matter without question.

Does this mean Dark*Matter has been rolled up into d20 Modern? Elements of it have been borrowed, clearly, but to what extent? Are there plans for a Dark*Matter setting to be put out for d20 Modern (not that I believe that, but I'd certainly jump on that like stink on ... well, you know.)

 

[jaerdaph]

IDoes this mean Dark*Matter has been rolled up into d20 Modern? Elements of it have been borrowed, clearly, but to what extent? Are there plans for a Dark*Matter setting to be put out for d20 Modern (not that I believe that, but I'd certainly jump on that like stink on ... well, you know.)

Here's the Dark*Matter and related stuff from the Menace Manual:

Creatures (originally from D*M):
Alien Probe (Fraal probe; foo fighter)
Bodak (undead Fraal)
Elohim
Etoile
Fraal (Grays)
Gardhyi (MIB)
Ghoul (template)
Grimlock (mole people)
Half-Fraal (template)
Kinori
Luciferan
Mothfolk (mothmen)
Sand Slave (sandmen, etoile slaves, template)
Sasquatch
Yeti

Xenoforms supplement for Dark*Matter

Mapinguari
Thunderbird
Harpy
Sea Serpent
Montauk Monster
Revenant
Crawfordsville Monster

Factions:
The Final Church
The Hoffmann Institute

Related Factions:
The CIA
The FBI
FEMA
UN Elite Security Force

The Menace manual doesn't include any conversions for D*M classes and FX however.

I'm starting a D*M campaign using d20 Modern here in NYC and I've been sharing my CharGen document in this thread on the d20 Modern board:

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64880

 

[Desdichado]

I wonder what the best way to convert the F/X would be, because I agree that besides that, I've got Dark*Matter already in terms I can use with d20 Modern.

I've considered borrowing Cthulhu d20 Sanity, magic and psychic powers and grafting them on in place of the D&D-like magic and psionic advanced classes, and although I like that, I'm not sure it's really very Dark*Matter-like.

 

[jaerdaph]

I wonder what the best way to convert the F/X would be, because I agree that besides that, I've got Dark*Matter already in terms I can use with d20 Modern.

I've considered borrowing Cthulhu d20 Sanity, magic and psychic powers and grafting them on in place of the D&D-like magic and psionic advanced classes, and although I like that, I'm not sure it's really very Dark*Matter-like.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of a skill and feat-based magic system to emulate Arcane and Faith FX and Mindwalking.

I'm planning on tinkering with this over the weekend.

 

[qstor]

The web enhancement for the Menace Manual, available on the WOTC web page, includes information on converting creatures from Alternity to D20 Modern.

Mike

 

[Darrin Drader]

I wonder what the best way to convert the F/X would be, because I agree that besides that, I've got Dark*Matter already in terms I can use with d20 Modern.

I had a system for exactly this written down, but that was 2 years ago, and I've since lost the document.