Urban Arcana Setting. What do you think?

[melkoriii]

What do poeple think about this setting?

THink it will be any good?

Will you buy it?

Just want to get poeples thoughts on it.

 

[EdwardForrester]

I will look at it and check out a few things first but I will probably pick it up. But I am thinking of running it a little different. Instead of magic being hidden it is all around and excepted with all the races to go with it. And my players will be a Dept.-7 branch ready to deal with those who abuse there gifts. Thoughts and comments on the idea are welcome.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I have absolutely no interest in it. I've never liked any of the "hybrid magic in the modern day" games.

I'll be using d20M for straight modern adventure games, possibly with some Cthulhu style magic and sanity thrown in. I'll also be using it for sci-fi games and as a basis for a fantasy game, but in neither case will I use anything for Urban Arcana.

I can guess why they decided to that as a campaign setting, but it is the least interesting and least appealing of all of their sample settings to me.

 

[Plane Sailing]

And my players will be a Dept.-7 branch ready to deal with those who abuse there gifts. Thoughts and comments on the idea are welcome.

Is that in a sort of "Men in Black" way?

 

[RangerWickett]

You might want to read this storyhour, then. It pretty much has that same idea, only we played it back in 2000, long before D20 Modern came out.

 

[takyris]

Pretty much exactly what Mr. Sailing said. It sounds like a perfectly valid game choice, but not one that interests me at all. I'm not interested in Modern D&D -- I'm interested in other types of magic and effects and such.

-Tacky

 

[Gospog]

I think it looks neat. Not sure if I'd pick it up without a casual read, though.

If/when i run D20 Modern, it's probably going to be Shadow Chasers.

Of course, as far as I can tell, Shadow Chasers and UA are pretty close, and it would be easy to swap stuff between settings.

 

[MThibault]

I'm not too interested but I'll check it out and if it has enough new crunchy bits and I've got the cash burning a hole in my pocket, I'll pick it up.

I'm starting up my campaign next month and its a Cthuluesque/Holy Blood and the Holy Grail setting. Having goblins running around as gang members and imps living in grandma's attic doesn't really fit.

Cheers

 

[Agius_Mage]

It looks absolutely wonderful, but just not my style. I, too, am not particularly interested in Modern D&D. In fact, I am DMing d20 Modern specifically to get away from D&D - I think our players have lost some of the mystery in the midst of the hack & slash fun of dungeon crawls.

I aim for high adventure kind of modern - movie-quality stuff, with elements of Lovecraftian horror thrown in for fun, and I think it would be too much disbelief to effectively suspend if you have gangs of half-orcs beating people up in alleyways.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Hm... it depends whether there's enough stuff in it that can be used even when you don't use magic (I've heard about a sniper PrC, and that doesn't sound so magical). I like my d20M games magic-less - just like your favourite action flic. Blazing Guns, Great Conspiracies, and Comely Wenches, but no Harry Potter, no thanks.