Monte Cooks WoD is for 3.5

Aus_Snow said:
I knew it was going to be d20, but. . .

Gah. Why not d20 Modern? :mad:

That strikes me as a really odd decision.

Supplementary question: is/was d20 Modern a failure?

Not really, if they are just using the very core stuff (with possibly new skill systems and classes and the like), there might be no difference between the two...

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Kae'Yoss said:
Yes, it's D&D 3.5e. It has been said before.

As far as I know, the current WoD is the second edition. Before that, they were only revisions and the like. The current WoD is often called WoD 2.0. And there is no revision for it as far as I know.

Weird...WOD just doesn't fit with D20...but I'm sure the fluff will be worth it.

The old WOD books I had I thought were called 2nd edition, but I could be wrong...
 

Nepenthe said:
Not really, if they are just using the very core stuff (with possibly new skill systems and classes and the like), there might be no difference between the two...
Er.

I'd say there's rather a lot of difference between D&D 3e and d20 Modern, going by my own experiences. . . in fact, even from just looking at the two systems side-by-side, for that matter.

I guess "3rd edition" or "3.5" has so much more selling power that the more 'logical' choice just ain't.
 


MojoGM said:
Weird...WOD just doesn't fit with D20...but I'm sure the fluff will be worth it.

The old WOD books I had I thought were called 2nd edition, but I could be wrong...
The four main oWoD books did get a second edition and then three of them (everyone but Changeling) got a Revised edition after that. Wraith and Mummy never got a second edition, as I recall.

The nWoD is called the Storytelling (instead of Storyteller) System and is 1.0.
 

In old world of darkness each of the core games (Vampire, werewolf, and Mage) got a second and a revised edition. Everything was Wold of Darkness and there was a few books that were just Wod. But now the WoD line is a mortal game and it is called a second edition. The other lines (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, etc) all build of the mortal game.
 

MojoGM said:
Is it really D&D 3.5? Aren't the WOD rules on version 3? I seem to think they are, so maybe they are a revision of those, and not D20...

The more I look at the picture, the more I am convinced that my guess is correct. Nowhere does it actually say 3.5 or D20, it says "Revised 3rd Edition Rules" which I think refers to the WOD system.

"Revised 3rd Edition Rules" is code for "OGL-based game that doesn't use the d20 license." (usually so that character creation rules can be included.)
 

Hmmm...

Looking at the ruins of the modern world, and mixing that with the fact that it is apparently d20 Fantasy and not modern, and adding in the whole Time of Judgment/Gehenna/Apocalypse/Ascension concept, I'm going out on a limb to say that the setting will probably be a post-Magical Apocalypse setting, World of Darkness style. Technology fails during the magical apocalypse, and vampires, werewolves, mages, changelings, etc. rule a magically ravaged Earth. Perhaps even more traditional "high fantasy" elements invade Earth... that looks like a planar gate to me.

Characters can either be standard d20 Fantasy mortal humans or the more powerful vampires, werewolves, "true magi," Changeling-style demihumans and humanoids, and so forth. Vampires would rule the ruined cities trying to rebuild a sort of civilization (they need lots of people to comfortably subsist), and werewolves and changelings rule the wilds, with the rural/suburban area now true battlegrounds. The Antediluvian vampires have ascended to godhood, the old gods return, and so on.

Read S.M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" and Steven Boyett's "Ariel" to get the basic idea, then add in the World of Darkness elements, and teh core fantasy elements from D&D... and that's probably Monte's WoD...
 

hexgrid said:
"Revised 3rd Edition Rules" is code for "OGL-based game that doesn't use the d20 license." (usually so that character creation rules can be included.)

Ah, I didn't realize that, ignore what my above posts then :)

I may have to at least take a look at it with Monte being the author...
 

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