So! Who's going to buy Gamma World D20?

[Azure Trance]

I don't know ... I'd love to, but I'm poor and already picked up Darwins world (Pre-D20 Modern release TPB, I believe)

 

[KDLadage]

Nope.

I loved Gamma World back in the day... but it just doesn't seem to be the thing that will trip my trigger this time around.

 

[Voneth]

For a twist on the apok meliu, there is "Snowfall" and "Kingdom River" by Mitchell Smith. Both of which use an Ice Age instead of World War III to wipe out civilization. Oh, don't worrry, this is not Clan of the Cave Bear. There are mutants and mistranslated books about the "Warm Times." A few tweaks and a GM could give you a Gamma World Winter Wonderland!

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue251/books.html

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue322/books.html

 

[Kanegrundar]

I'm definantly going to pick it up. My main hope is that the mutations rules are balanced. Well, that and hoping they'll change their minds on keeping sentient plants out of the book. My favorite character from any game will always be my mutant cactus gunslinger Prickly Bill!

Kane

 

[BruceB]

I read the Q&A at WW with Bruce Baugh and was wondering why the artist lineup was hush-hush, which seems a bit scary to me.

Actually, I just didn't want to spoil someone else's surprise. But now that I've got my author's copies of the Player's Guide to Fighters & Barbarians in hand, I see that he's already got some WW/SSS work in print. So I shall burble.

You young'uns, he said from the distant heights of his late 30s, may not have seen some of the really great comics of the '80s. In particular, there's this guy named Tim Truman who both wrote and drew the post-apocalyptic adventure series Scout and was the defining artist and co-creator with John Ostrander of the cross-dimensional noir series Grimjack. It's difficult to overstate just how much I loved Truman's work on those (and other titles), and how much of an influence it's been on how I think about the whole uber-genre of dark-tinged action.

Now, in the art notes for the Gamma World core book, I alluded in some descriptions to inspirations and examples including Truman's work, particularly for the figure that illustrates the Smart Hero basic class Gamma World-style and the Cybercologist advanced class. (She's a mutant, with one arm pretty well withered to usefulness, something exotic instead of regular eyes, and limbs agile enough that she can hold a small computer in one hand and type on it with the prehensile toes of the opposite foot.) A few weeks ago I started looking through the layout proofs for the book and thought to myself, cool, whoever's doing these basic and advanced class illos really got that Truman vibe. He's got a very distinctive inking style, and I was impressed at this artist's fidelity to it.

Zoom in. Read signature. Blink. Blink blink blink.

I don't know just how it came to pass that Tim Truman's doing art for SSS these days - he's illustrated the prestige classes in the Scarred Lands Player's Guides, and then these pieces for Gamma World. But I am really happy about it.

 

[Kenpo Wolf]

Actually, I just didn't want to spoil someone else's surprise. But now that I've got my author's copies of the Player's Guide to Fighters & Barbarians in hand, I see that he's already got some WW/SSS work in print. So I shall burble.

You young'uns, he said from the distant heights of his late 30s, may not have seen some of the really great comics of the '80s. In particular, there's this guy named Tim Truman who both wrote and drew the post-apocalyptic adventure series Scout and was the defining artist and co-creator with John Ostrander of the cross-dimensional noir series Grimjack. It's difficult to overstate just how much I loved Truman's work on those (and other titles), and how much of an influence it's been on how I think about the whole uber-genre of dark-tinged action.

Now, in the art notes for the Gamma World core book, I alluded in some descriptions to inspirations and examples including Truman's work, particularly for the figure that illustrates the Smart Hero basic class Gamma World-style and the Cybercologist advanced class. (She's a mutant, with one arm pretty well withered to usefulness, something exotic instead of regular eyes, and limbs agile enough that she can hold a small computer in one hand and type on it with the prehensile toes of the opposite foot.) A few weeks ago I started looking through the layout proofs for the book and thought to myself, cool, whoever's doing these basic and advanced class illos really got that Truman vibe. He's got a very distinctive inking style, and I was impressed at this artist's fidelity to it.

Zoom in. Read signature. Blink. Blink blink blink.

I don't know just how it came to pass that Tim Truman's doing art for SSS these days - he's illustrated the prestige classes in the Scarred Lands Player's Guides, and then these pieces for Gamma World. But I am really happy about it.

In brief, are you saying that Tim Truman is doing some of the art for Gamma World? If this is true, it's great news to me. I loved his work in the Grim Jack, Lone Ranger and Hawkworld series.

 

[BruceB]

In brief, are you saying that Tim Truman is doing some of the art for Gamma World?

I am! He illustrated representatives of the Gamma World versions of the Strong, Fast, Tough, Smart, Dedicated, and Charismatic Hero classes, and of the Cybercologist, Leader, Nanosmith, Prophet, Survivor, and War Chief advanced classes.

 

[Voneth]

I am! He illustrated representatives of the Gamma World versions of the Strong, Fast, Tough, Smart, Dedicated, and Charismatic Hero classes, and of the Cybercologist, Leader, Nanosmith, Prophet, Survivor, and War Chief advanced classes.

Drool!

Hey, did I ever tell you guys about Jack Grim, a street fighter Akashic Brotherhood character I based on Grim ...

*slap*!!!!

Okay, I'll stop being a fanboy now.

 

[Brutorz Bill]

I am! He illustrated representatives of the Gamma World versions of the Strong, Fast, Tough, Smart, Dedicated, and Charismatic Hero classes, and of the Cybercologist, Leader, Nanosmith, Prophet, Survivor, and War Chief advanced classes.

That's Awesome!!
The Prophet Class has me especially intrigued!
I can't wait for this book to come out!
Regards,
Brutorz Bill

 

[BruceB]

The Prophet Class has me especially intrigued!

It's not a spoiler to say that this is "prophet" in the Old Testament sense - not necessarily someone who foresees the future, but someone who understands and judges the present. The class talents deal with insight and persuasion, among other things. I'm hoping they'll be a lot of fun to play for folks who like to get in and wrestle with the social side of their setting.