R U Playing?

[glenmac]

I would like to ask some questions. Let me qualify myself. I am with 12 to Midnight, so my question seeks to give me information that will help me produce books that people will want to have.

I am just curious to find out if folks are playing d20 Modern.

I am also curious to find out why people are not trying the modern RPG.

If you are not playing, did you not like movies like Predator, Resident Evil, Commando, Underworld, Bourne Identity, any James Bond? I'm trying to focus on movies that could easily translate into Modern d20. If you like these movies how come you would not want to play a campaign based on them?

I have a few more questions posted on the forums at my site. If your thinking cap is really cooking and you want to tackle a few more questions go on over and take a look.

www.12tomidnight.com

Thanks for your time.

Glen Maclanahan
12 to Midnight Inc.

 

[takyris]

Might get more response if this were in the d20 thread that has modern in it.

I'm playing, and enjoying the heck out of the game. My group's PCs just led a small town in defense against a biker gang led by four skeletal warrior bikers, and it was fantastic. Anybody who is concerned about guns being too weak hasn't seen what happens when twenty people with +0 BAB's open fire with their hunting rifles. Tires were shot, bikers were blown away with a single hit... it was horrific.

If people aren't interested in d20 Modern, from what I've seen, it seems to be because:

1) They don't like playing in the modern genre
2) They don't think d20 Modern can replicate an action movie (I disagree here, but that's beside the point)
3) They'd rather play Spycraft. I haven't played Spycraft myself, so I can't comment here, but there seem to be Spycraft people and d20 Modern people, and rarely do the twain meet. I like d20 Modern's generic classes and expansion of skills, whereas (in my extremely info-limited opinion) Spycraft seems to create more non-magical "powers". This makes Spycraft closer to D&D-in-a-modern-setting than d20 Modern is (in terms of the feel of flavor-filled classes and more powerful abilities), albeit with a combat engine that the Spycraft people swear by.

But as I said, I'm playin' it, and I'm lovin' it.

 

[Umbran]

I am also curious to find out why people are not trying the modern RPG.

I don't play d20 Modern, and the reason is quite simple - there's too many games, and too little time. There are more good game systems out there than you can shake a stick at, but modern adults just can't game all that often. One has to pick and choose.

 

[zenld]

very much enjoying d20M. have two campaigns using it.

i will try to get to your forums tonight.

zen

 

[jerichothebard]

Unfortunately, I'm not playing it at the moment, though I would love to run a game of Modern.

Mainly, my gaming group only meets occasionally, and we have a really good and in-depth D&D campaign going. I am not willing to set it aside for the few sessions we manage.

maybe later, I will, and 12toMidnight has some great stuff which will probably see use.

 

[jerichothebard]

D'oh!

 

[francisca]

No sir. I do not play d20 modern. Reasons why:

1) I like fantasy much better, followed by Post-Apocalypse, then Old West. Modern settings don't make my top 3. If I did play modern, it would probably be a Dark*Matter type of setting.
2) Money. I spent a lot on fantasy games, and am quite happily wringing every penny I can out of that genre.
3) Time. Sure. It's d20. But it is different enough that I don't want to spend the time to learn it well enough not to make rule mistakes in-game. I also DM 2/3 of the time, and am not interested in DMing a new system.

If one of my players wanted to run d20 Modern, I'd give it a shot, but I won't be spending any significant time on it.

 

[EricNoah]

I would play if someone were to run a game, but as I've said in some recent threads I'm not cut out to GM a modern or futuristic game. You have to know too much about the real world and I just wouldn't do a good job at it. I've run it as a one-shot and that's about it; and by comparison it wasn't quite as good an experience as Alternity was.

 

[derelictjay]

I would love to run a d20 modern, but here's why I don't play, and I'll quote a friend of mine "It would be like playing shadowrun", now substitute shadowrun with any modern or future game and thats the problem I have with running one. For some reason, I can't get people to use the d20 system in anything but fantasy

 

[Wombat]

I must admit that I was never really interested in D20 Modern. I played in a Cyberpunk game for a while -- it was amusing, but not much more, and there was too much of an emphasis on firearms (due to the players, not the game). I read through and briefly played in Shadowrun and found it a combination of ridiculous and kludgey, not to mention the whole Fist Full O' Dice aspect.

And then there was Aftermath...

I could see a few other types of games using the D20 rules (X-Files-esque, James Bond-ian, etc.), but none of them are at the tops of any of my interests. I'll stick to fantasy, which is always my first interest in gaming.