Oh! Neat!
Oh! Neat!
JeffB
Legend
R_J_K75
Legend
Exactly, stopped reading around 1990. I picked it back up mid-2000s, then again 2010ish, both for short periods. Between all the cross-overs and bi-weekly releases it was impossible to read just one title. So I think you are right that if it was to re-released today it'd probably be a mess.
I dunno - the original game wasn't strongly linked to the print comics plots. So, how hard it is to follow those plots doesn't really matter. And these days, the movies are so big, that a game might have traction.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
The core boxed set could function perfectly fine on its own, absolutely true. But the line did include updates based on the comics. It had two Secret Wars sourcebooks, and yearly updates for the comicbook characters from 1989 - 1993. And things could change a heck of a lot.
Sure, you could go without those updates, but if you were into the comics, you wanted it to match as closely as possible. As young teens, it would've been an unpardonable sin to have Johnny Blaze as Ghost Rider when we all knew it was currently Danny Ketch.
Sure, you could go without those updates, but if you were into the comics, you wanted it to match as closely as possible. As young teens, it would've been an unpardonable sin to have Johnny Blaze as Ghost Rider when we all knew it was currently Danny Ketch.
shrug. We didn't play the official characters. We played our own. And we didn't really care what versions of the villains the GM used.
hawkeyefan
Legend
Yeah, that was largely how we played as well. Sometimes we'd have some team ups, and we'd each play our character and a Marvel character. But mostly it was our team in the Marvel Universe.
LuisCarlos17f
Legend
In my humble opinion WotC has got plans for a new d20 Modern, because it would like to can adapt franchises from the screen or videogames, for example Overwatch or Fortnite, but also G.I.Joe or Transformers. Even in a future to can publish a d20 version of Marvel and DC superheroes, the perfect hook for the comics fandom. But the superheroes will have to change, because for future videogame adaptations will need the right balance between power and vulnerability, and this is bad for the bulletproof superheroes, because they are too "boring" for the fans.
The aliens PC races from d20 future could, or should, be recycled for Spelljammer.
After Spelljammer and a D&D "age of pirates" (Savage Coast/Red Steel?) the next title may be Gamma World like a step in the midle between D&D and d20 Future. Gamma World is a franchise where you can shoot with a laser ray gun but maybe your PC wanted to save ammo for harder enemies.
Today the Far Western isn't a popular genre. Sorry for Boot Hill.
Buck Rogers is a good example of sci-fi franchises getting old very badly. But I would like a space fantasy setting with a retrofuturist look.
The aliens PC races from d20 future could, or should, be recycled for Spelljammer.
After Spelljammer and a D&D "age of pirates" (Savage Coast/Red Steel?) the next title may be Gamma World like a step in the midle between D&D and d20 Future. Gamma World is a franchise where you can shoot with a laser ray gun but maybe your PC wanted to save ammo for harder enemies.
Today the Far Western isn't a popular genre. Sorry for Boot Hill.
Buck Rogers is a good example of sci-fi franchises getting old very badly. But I would like a space fantasy setting with a retrofuturist look.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
On the converse, while my group had their own superheroes, someone was always wanting to guest star as an established character, or the group got the idea to explore a wacky combination, like what if Jubilee teamed up with The Punisher for an adventure.
Twiggly the Gnome
Legend
Basically, a roll high version of the original game engine, with a couple of new settings.
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