Project Javelin Cancelled

[AscentStudios]

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

That is a shame. However, if you 3rd party people feel like jumping ship, there's another option out there in Spycraft

 

[C. Baize]

Blah!
Keep the D20 Modern stuff flowing!

 

[jaerdaph]

Blah!
Keep the D20 Modern stuff flowing!

AMEN!

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Hey, I'm not abandoning D20Modern.


I'm working my fingers to nubs writing Modern material!!

And I'd like to write even more.

--fje

 

[gladiator]

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

There's a d20 Modern Wizards of the Coast sub-category over at DriveThruRPG, so it's probably just a matter of time before the entire catalog is available in PDF format.

 

[AscentStudios]

Bummer. Well, it never hurts to offer...

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Bummer. Well, it never hurts to offer...

I'm warming to SpyCraft. Right now I'm working in the opposite direction, though, and taking the best parts of that and translating them over to Modern.

I'm contemplating a SpyCraft version of "one of my other products", but I'm still trying to decide exactly how to implement it with an entirely different skill system.

But then I'd be all but required to build a special base class to go with it ...

--fje

 

[AscentStudios]

That's surprising. Spycraft's skill system can do most anything you want from Modern, plus. Properly encapsulated, you can get away with 'plug and play' rules without having to do a new base class quite handily. Frex, our upcoming magic supplement uses the Profession skill as the basis of spellcasting...

But either way. I don't expect everyone to turn to Spycraft, but if you want a 'living' game system when/if d20M is canned by WotC, I'd say our door is always open

 

[Vigilance]

That is a shame. However, if you 3rd party people feel like jumping ship, there's another option out there in Spycraft

Wow. Just, wow.

I realize you guys are going to get behind Spycraft 100% and I think that's cool.

But you do realize how snarky and/or obnoxious you sound right there, yes?

There's a line between pushing a game and being pushy.

Chuck

 

[Roudi]

Since I know specifically what product Heap is talking about (it's right there in his signature, for crying out loud), I trust his word that additional work would be needed to "Spycraft" it up.

Also, what's this crap about a "living" system? Last time I checked, Spycraft didn't have dozens of publishers, big and small, releasing products for it.

In terms of the original topic: I'm not all that disappointed in the loss of Project Javelin. d20 Modern support has always been strongest represented by the 3rd-party publishers anyhow. It could certainly use more free resources (especially with MODERNIZED no more), but that's just a matter of numbers. There are just fewer Modern players, gamemasters, and writers overall, and far too few among them willing to produce free work (even when paid to do so).