[OT, Alternity] Did anyone ever run the adventure in "Tangents"?

[JPL]

I'm thinking about buying the Tangents PDF and running the adventure in the back.

I've thumbed through the book...it looks like Sliders meets Stargate --- some scientists and techs are missing in a parallel dimension, and a team of experts gets called to mount a rescue.

I'd run it as a d20 Modern one-shot [with the option for follow-ups]...probably sixth-level characters with appropriately quirky backgrounds --- the Green Beret turned anthropologist, the geophysicist mountain climber, the theoretical physicist with the black belt in aikido, etc. Sort of a Buckaroo Banzai thing, in fact.

Anyway...has anyone played or run this adventure, or at least read it thoroughly enough to comment?

 

[Cevalic]

I bought the book and read through it way back when. I never got the chance to play through it, but I thought that it would be a decent game. I see no reason why it wouldn't work, although I haven't even looked at d20 Modern. Is it a worthy game?

 

[JPL]

Oh, that's a whole other thread.

As with anything else, opinions about d20 Modern vary. It's certainly the slickest version of the d20 rules thus far [and gives some indication as to what we can expect of D&D 3.5]

Me, I love the rules. The three sample settings I could take or leave [although Urban Arcana shows promise, and I'll take a long hard look at the full-blown campaign book], and a good chunk of the book is redundant if you own the three D&D core books.

Take a look at the SRD --- it's all the mechanics, stripped of flavor.