Project Javelin Cancelled

[gladiator]

It looks like WotC's free adventure path for D20 Modern has been cancelled.

Link to WotC's D20 Message Board

I doubt anyone is going to be surprised by the announcement, since it's been months since the first adventure was released and nothing materialized after that. Project Javelin renewed my interest in WotC's D20 product line, but they lost me when they failed to follow through. I wonder what's happening behind the scenes at WotC.

 

[Vigilance]

They're evalutaing their modern releases.

d20 Spectaculars was cancelled as well.

They haven't abandoned the line entirely however, as witnessed by Dark Matter.

Chuck

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

That's too bad. It looked interesting.

 

[2WS-Steve]

They're evalutaing their modern releases.

d20 Spectaculars was cancelled as well.

They haven't abandoned the line entirely however, as witnessed by Dark Matter.

Chuck

That would be unfortunate. I'd enjoy seeing a d20 Modern Second Edition -- be a good test bed for, er, various possible rules changes.

 

[Aussiegamer]

It looks like the mighty have fallen.

The once customer friendly Wizards is becoming a pretty much, buy this and we are not goig to support it in any way, type of company. Sad really.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

I think the d20Modern line just hasn't had enough focus thus-far. It's like the whole D&D 2nd Ed issue all over again in a single product line. They've been producing alot of very different stuff for d20Modern and I don't know as it has all appealed to a broad base.

I never downloaded the first adventure of Project Javelin. "Time Nazis" just isn't my bag, baby.

I'll pick up the Menace Manual (well, I did), Critical Locations ... I'll probably buy two copies of Dark*Matter. But these are the things I like. I use d20Modern, predominantly, to run Dark*Matter games as it is, anyway, so the stuff that supports that supports what I'm doing.

Though I'll also be doing a future game here soon.

And I think a focused Future release would be popular as well. I'd buy a re-released Star*Drive.

I think one thing Wizards missed was further support for a campaign model. An existing campaign model. Project Javelin would have probably been more popular had it been an Agents of Psi campaign path, or Genetech ... or hell, even an Urban Arcana path. Something people had already seen and that would appeal to the readers they already had. They just continued the "modern is everything, we have no goals for modern" ideology by releasing a campaign path that had absolutely nothing to do with anything anybody had been exposed to through Modern before.

--fje

 

[2WS-Steve]

I think one thing Wizards missed was further support for a campaign model. An existing campaign model. Project Javelin would have probably been more popular had it been an Agents of Psi campaign path, or Genetech ... or hell, even an Urban Arcana path. Something people had already seen and that would appeal to the readers they already had. They just continued the "modern is everything, we have no goals for modern" ideology by releasing a campaign path that had absolutely nothing to do with anything anybody had been exposed to through Modern before.

--fje

I agree.

Since they actually publishes a whole hardcover, and released a bunch of arcana material into the SRD -- I'd think that would have been the best option. Adventure paths give gamemasters and players a good model of what to do in a world.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

From what I've seen, I think Modern is in a rough place right now. Two projects have been outright canceled in rather late stages of development (Spectaculars, Project Javelin) ... stages in which they have material in hand yet aren't releasing it.

The product they are, in turn, releasing is apparently a rework of existing material from an older system. Which, while something I love and will buy two or three times, says to me they just aren't putting alot of energy and time toward the d20M line.

This is unfortunate because the 3rd party arena is still flowering nicely. WotC has, thusfar, dropped the ball on Modern and may be close to killing the product line. If that happens, the 3rd party support will probably slowly dry up and move on toward other product lines that arent going OOP.

I, for one, have a pet genre ...

--fje

 

[The Shaman]

I, for one, have a pet genre ...

Pokemon?



That's disappointing to hear about Project Javelin.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

From what I've seen, I think Modern is in a rough place right now. Two projects have been outright canceled in rather late stages of development (Spectaculars, Project Javelin) ... stages in which they have material in hand yet aren't releasing it.

Would be interesting to see, with the recent flood of PDF releases for D&D, if the 20 Modern stuff comes out as PDF.