Traveler D20

[Imperialus]

I have recently been posessed with the desire to adapt firefly to a roleplaying game. Naturally the obvious choice for a system would be traveler and though I have some old GURPS traveler books kicking around in the back of my closet that would require that all but two members of my group learn an entiarly new system using OOP material, not exactly desierable. Anyhow some time ago I saw copies of a D20 traveler in the store where I buy my games, unfortunatly when I actually scraped together the 70 bucks needed to buy them I went back and there were none there. Checked Amazon and Ebay as well and found no matches. Was I just crazy and such a product never exsisted or has it disappered for some reason?

If it is unavalable is there any D20 system kicking around out there that I could modify to fit the concept of the show Firefly? A sort of genaric open ended D20 Sci Fi system?

 

[Golem2176]

You're not crazy, Traveller D20 (or T20, as it is also referred to as) is quite real, I own the book. RPGRealms is the company that produces the book. You can download the lite version absolutely free. If you want to buy the book you're better off doing so online, I got a used copy at Amazon for only 30 bucks. The SRP is $44.95.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Yes, the first printing of T20 sold out pretty quickly. There is a second printing available now, with errata incorporated.

Traveller has always been a very flexible system, and doing a Firefly campaign with it should be pretty easy.

 

[Imperialus]

thanks guys, that's really all I wanted to know. I already have most of the setting fleshed out useing my GURPS books I just need to import the actual mechanics. I found it on Ebay now for 29$ US so it should be on it's way.

 

[Ranger REG]

If you can, you can order straight from the publisher:

www.travellerrpg.com

That's how I got my 1st printing copy, and the very first to pay $45 (US) for such a hefty game book.

 

[Wilphe]

T - 20 is a nice book.

It's got very little background in it but you don't need that. It's almost all crunch.
The editing is somewhat opaque, trying to figure out the C.Gen system is a major undertaking as it marries the traditional lifepath with D20 leveling and then throws data and tables all over. It's very nice when you figure it out, but I fills me with dread for when I come to look at the Vehicle and Starship rules in detail.

Of course you can just throw that part on the bin and just say "You are all 8th level characters" and go from there.

 

[Pagan priest]

T - 20 is a nice book.

It's got very little background in it but you don't need that. It's almost all crunch.
The editing is somewhat opaque, trying to figure out the C.Gen system is a major undertaking as it marries the traditional lifepath with D20 leveling and then throws data and tables all over. It's very nice when you figure it out, but I fills me with dread for when I come to look at the Vehicle and Starship rules in detail.

Of course you can just throw that part on the bin and just say "You are all 8th level characters" and go from there.

Check out the web site, there is stuff there that can help with figuring out a lot of that stuff. Like I found a recommended way to use the life history for other games, like D&D, easy to port it from there into starwars as well.

The boards there are fairly nice as well. Mechanically the ENWorld boards are better, but a dedicated board gets answers to questions or problems fairly quickly, and often from the author.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I have recently been posessed with the desire to adapt firefly to a roleplaying game. Naturally the obvious choice for a system would be traveler and though I have some old GURPS traveler books kicking around in the back of my closet that would require that all but two members of my group learn an entiarly new system using OOP material, not exactly desierable. Anyhow some time ago I saw copies of a D20 traveler in the store where I buy my games, unfortunatly when I actually scraped together the 70 bucks needed to buy them I went back and there were none there. Checked Amazon and Ebay as well and found no matches. Was I just crazy and such a product never exsisted or has it disappered for some reason?

If it is unavalable is there any D20 system kicking around out there that I could modify to fit the concept of the show Firefly? A sort of genaric open ended D20 Sci Fi system?

I thought about doing a Firefly campaign myself (it is still a possibility: There are 12-15 episodes I could use as adventure ideas that NONE of my gaming group ever saw - Firefly didn`t air in Germany yet, and maybe never will)
I would mix D20 Modern und some Elements of D20 Traveller.
I probably used a bit of the background system, maybe the planet generation system, and the starship rules, and some elements of the trade system (which is great - we had an T20 adventure that did involve no combat but only trading )
But I wouldn`t use the classes (I actually don`t like them much, especially with their strange 1/4 BAB development) or the damage system (even though I think a bit grittier combat system would fit to firefly).

The D20 Modern classes are perfectly suited to make the characters of the show, I think. Actually, they fit so perfectly that I can`t come up with an advanced Class for a companion without making a copy of the Charismatic Hero.

Mustrum Ridcully