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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 825418" data-attributes="member: 6390">On a further note, let's take a look at why d20 Modern should be supported by us, and even further, why d20 Future should be supported.Let's face it, many people (as evidenced in chat and a few polls) think that d20 Modern and d20 Future will NEVEr reach the popularity of D&D....When Top Secret originally came out it couldn't stay on the shelves. BE JAMES BOND!! was the watchword.When Gamma World came out, a lot of people (I lived near Fresno CA at the time) dropped D&D and started playing Gamma World (but then, Cold War fears had a grip on all of us at the time, whether we knew it or not) and people loved it.Hero's Unlimited, Champions, Twilight 2000, Rifts, Ninja's & Superspies....To say these never had the following of D&D is arrogance. I hate to tell all of you this, it was easier to get a copy of Mezzoberranzan than it was to get ahold of Rifts: Atlantis at the time they came out. And Ol' Mezzo was a hot product. So was Myth Drannor, it was tough to get Mechaniods, and the game shop got the same amount of each.BUT, back on track...Part of the problem with making a modern/future sourcebook is people don't like creating tables. Realistically, a lot of Gamers don't mind tables (Take a look in the back of 1E DMG or 1/2E Gamma World some time) and good, hard rules never bothered anyone.If people didn't like tables, and hate complex construction rules, why was DalCon overrrun with Battletech Geeks! Every time I turned around, there was some guy with a Clans book!Without support, Modern and Future will die.WotC might now choose to take a big risk. They'll run with Urban Arcana, Gamma World, and thier version of Top Secret.We, on the other hand, can take the chance, and push the envelope.New campaign settings.Adventures (Oh, I flipped through the channels and got FOURTY adventure ideas just formw aht's on TV, besides war coverage)Sourcebooks.There's a lot of potential.Or am I just imagining things again?</blockquote>

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