Mix-and-match sourcebooks with other rpgs

[kitsune9]

Hello Gamers!

Do you use a supplement/sourcebook for one rpg, but use it for a different game altogether?

In my example, I have Tome of Corruption from Warhammer FRP 2e that I'm using for my Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign using the Pathfinder Beta. The reason being is that I love the mutations in it as it follows a similar story-line that has such maladies. I have to do a little conversion to make use of the rules, but it's too awesome to just pass up.

Now, I'm sure that a good deal of you all use a campaign setting using a different rule system, but what I want to know is if you use a supplement (rulebook) for another rpg. And if not, you can talk about your campaign setting with the different rule system, I don't exclude anyone.

Happy Gaming!

 

[jdrakeh]

I've used the Scarred Lands setting sourcebooks with TWERPS and Risus (no, I'm not kidding). I've recently thought about using the Sharn sourcebook with OD&D (1974), The Fantasy Trip, or Tunnels & Trolls. This is assuming I can concentrate long enough to organize and run a game.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I've used the Chromebooks with other mechanics. Likewise, '...And a 10 foot pole', Aurora's catalogue, and other fantasy / historical equipment supplements. Oh, and several bestiaries from here and there.

That's just off the top of my head. But uh, yeah, I tend to do that stuff a fair bit.

I've recently thought about using the Sharn sourcebook with OD&D (1974), The Fantasy Trip, or Tunnels & Trolls. This is assuming I can concentrate long enough to organize and run a game.

Sounds pretty bad. Um, the concentration part, I mean.

 

[jdrakeh]

Sounds pretty bad. Um, the concentration part, I mean.

Yeah, it looks like I might have ADD. Woohoo!

 

[Aus_Snow]

Yeah, it looks like I might have ADD. Woohoo!

Damn. That sucks. Don't really known enough about that to say anything useful. But, well, hope things pick up for ya soon, J.

 

[CsonTep]

When I was running Torg I used books from all kinds of games. I adapted one of TSR's Marvel Superheroes adventures, a bunch of adventures from Dungeon, and some Runequest stuff.

KDM27

 

[kitsune9]

So, for all of you, when you used your sourcebook, did your players feel that it enhanced the game?

I knew one DM when we played 2e used the critical hit tables from Rolemaster. We played some mega-dungeon crawl called Greyhawk Ruins or Ruins of Greyhawk or something like that. The games were really tough, but they were Awesome +5.

I think if DM's take a look at all the gaming material they have and think about how to utilize it for any game they play, it can enhance the experience.

 

[Jack7]

I used to do something similar but over time I just extracted whatever I liked and that worked well from other sourcebooks and combining that with my own stuff created my own sourcebook. Course I been around a long time and I write for a living so that kinda thing don't bother me at all. I like doing that kinda thing.

 

[Voadam]

I've used mechanical stuff from d20 Modern (monsters), Arcana Unearthed (classes), Iron Heroes (class, rules), and 4e (Healing Surge) in my 3e and pathfinder beta games.

In my old 1e/2e game I used spells from Ars Magica, MERP, WoD Sorcerer, and Mage The Sorcerer's Crusade; True Name Rituals and Blood magic from Earthdawn 1e; and creatures from Palladium (Heroes Unlimited Revised to be specific). I used drugs from GURPS Cyperpunk as potions/alchemical drugs as well for a fighter and psion who were addicted to them.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I, like a lot of gamers, use GURPS supplements for non-GURPS games all the time- they're usually very well written.

I've also run HERO campaigns using the setting/sourcebooks from RIFTS/Heroes Unlimited and Space: 1889, and my current M&M campaign is based in the world of Space: 1889 as well.

Besides the cross-pollination I'm doing with 3.5 and 3pp settings and supplements, I've lifted Palladium & other FRPG critters for D&D as well. In fact, I have a post-apocalyptic D&D campaign I'm designing that includes Palladium Wolfen and races from Dragonstar as PC races, and others besides.