Post what you'd like from Publishers

[Crothian]

I want companies to take chances. I want the highly intelligent creative stuff that not everyone will understand. I want adventures set in exotic locals with wierd, exotic peoiples so we can kill them. I'd like to see more modules based off of the classics. We already have Lewis carroll stuff, but what about a good Moby Dick adventure or Guiliver's Travel's? While I wasn't a big fan of S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, I really thought it was a great adventure concept. It made you think. I want horror that is true horror. Make a module that is rater R for voilence and gore. Not everything has to be made for everyone.

 

[kenjib]

Would it be possible to make a Twilight Zone role playing game? Has something like that ever been tried? It seems like it would be difficult to get the kind of closure that Twilight Zone stories have without heavyhanded scripting/railroading but for some reason the idea keeps coming back to my mind. I'm not sure if it could be done though.

I guess d20 probably wouldn't be the best kind of system for this though.

 

[Setanta]

I would like to see some alternative magic systems that are really different. I haven't checked out FFG's Spells and Spellcraft, so maybe it has what I'm looking for. I'd like a good mana or power point based spell system. I'd like a good piety based divine casting system.

And what I'd really like is for Atlas to make a book that brings the Ars Magica system to D&D. I'm looking forward to their Occult Lore book, but I wish it had the Ars Magica system in it as well.

On more general terms, I really like books like Touched by the Gods or Arcana: Societies of Magic, and I'll continue to buy any such books of that quality.

Cal

 

[Corinth]

I would like someone to publish the SRD once all of it is released officially, preferably as a PDF, under the title "D20 System Developer's Kit" or something like that. Include a chapter that answers all of the FAQ regarding the OGL and D20STL. If it's a PDF, then you can hyperlink to documents and sites that go into more detail or allow access to a larger development community.

I would like for the entire D20 publishing community to chip in as they are able to pay for a comprehensive market survey, as the 1999 WotC survey is fast becoming irrelevant. Furthermore, I'd like this to be a regular annual or biannual undertaking. Numbers are necessary, and they need to be current.

I would like for more D20 publishers to make greater use of the established library of Open Game Content. What I've seen is a good start, but this is not enough. By the same token, all efforts to archive and make accessable the collected Open Game Content should receive across-the-board support from all D20 publishers.

I would like for English-language D20 publishers to look into more non-English properties to translate and convert into English D20 products. Tenra Basho, out of Japan, would be a good start as it's very popular and very familiar to the D20 user network.

I would like for there to be more options for organized gaming outside the gaming convention scene, such as one run entirely through the Internet. (By that, I mean that the 'Net is the means by which home-based groups communicate with the campaign's administration; TORG would actually work now that there is the sufficient online infrastructure in place.)

I want D20 TORG. It's nowhere near as hard as it seems, thanks to the publishing efforts of the D20 community. Organized Play or the RPGA could easily run this as their first inhouse-generated Living Campaign.

 

[Leopold]

a standard for:

1. vehciles: how to build them, drive them, do combat within them.
2. weapons: Guns, rockets, etc.
3. God creation.



Those 3 having a defacto standard associated with them would make building campaigns and modules much simpler. I am a firm believer in standards and right now for the above 3 there are none.

 

[kenjib]

I would like to see some alternative magic systems that are really different. I haven't checked out FFG's Spells and Spellcraft, so maybe it has what I'm looking for. I'd like a good mana or power point based spell system. I'd like a good piety based divine casting system.

Have you taken a look at Sovereign Stone, Wheel of Time, or Mongoose's Chaos Magic? They are all very good alternate magic systems and a nice departure from standard D&D. I think there are some more as well.

EDIT: oh yeah, the psionics handbook of course. It's power point based just like you want. All you need to do is change the vocabulary and it's magic. There's nothing forcing it to be "psionics" only beyond the terminology used. Very little work required to transform it to magic, and if you buy If Thoughts Could Kill you get a conversion of all spells from the PHB as well.

 

[Setanta]

Have you taken a look at Sovereign Stone, Wheel of Time, or Mongoose's Chaos Magic? They are all very good alternate magic systems and a nice departure from standard D&D. I think there are some more as well.

I looked through Sovereign Stone in a store, and I didn't like the fact that most spells take several rounds to cast. That's not the flavour I'm looking for.

I have Wheel of Time, and I like the system, but it could have used more weaves. There's some stuff going on IMC regarding the nature of magic, and I think some WoT style chanellers are going to show up soon.

I have Mongoose's Chaos Magic, but I haven't tried it out yet. I should put some time into that and have a Chaos Magic wielding NPC show up soon. I guess I need to just jump in and try these systems out. Reading about them in a book probably doesn't do them justice.

EDIT: oh yeah, the psionics handbook of course. It's power point based just like you want. All you need to do is change the vocabulary and it's magic. There's nothing forcing it to be "psionics" only beyond the terminology used. Very little work required to transform it to magic, and if you buy If Thoughts Could Kill you get a conversion of all spells from the PHB as well.

I actually just purchased the PsiH Saturday (my FLGS is having a liquidation sale ) because I had heard there was a good power point system in it. I haven't read it yet (I've been reading Freeport and Bluffsides), but I will soon.

Thanks for the suggestions. I would really like to see Atlas do Ars Magica for D&D- that's a cool magic system.

 

[dagger]

Rules for running a a fief, kingdom, village or whatever.

Taxes, how much you collect.
Events
Resource management
How many people come, are born, die, everything!

Massive crunchy rules about running a small domain to a huge nation!

Fields of Blood is supposed to have it but.....

 

[cybernetic]

Stuff that I want:

A wuxia inspired Chinese fantasy setting that isn't actually set in China.

A modern fantasy ruleset explicitly designed to be usable with D&D without conversion (i.e., no WP/VP).

Wow....you just described two of the books that I have been working on....

Dragon Sunrise is a High Fantasy Martial Arts setting that does not take place in china...but its own world...Aerth....kinda inspired by The Storm Riders, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Zu Warriors (the old ones and the new one coming out).

The Other one is my baby.......Dark Revelations a post modern. high magic, fantasy, necropunk setting (necropunk = lotta undead and dark things )...Dark Revelations will be fully combatible with the core classes and ho and other staples of DnD 3rd Edition....with scaled down firearm rules and new technology rules...

After I get the manuscripts done for them I'll shop them around to companies....and/or publish them under my own company Cybernetic Sorcery Studios....

 

[JohnNephew]

And what I'd really like is for Atlas to make a book that brings the Ars Magica system to D&D. I'm looking forward to their Occult Lore book, but I wish it had the Ars Magica system in it as well.

It does sound like you'll like Occult Lore. (I'm in fact taking a break from working on its layout.) In the Ars Magica department, you'll be happy to learn that I've received a first draft of "The Black Monks of Glastonbury," the Ars Magica/D20 Coriolis title that we'll be releasing sooner or later (before year-end, I hope).

Originally I was personally hoping to do an adaptation of the basic ArM magic system for D20 for Occult Lore, as the centerpiece fature when I was outlining ideas for the book last summer. As it turns out, I didn't find time to write anything for it besides the title. :-(

Cool username, BTW!