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I got a better idea
Above the South Pole of Venus is a Polar Vortex. What if it was a gateway to another parallel plane of Existance, a parallel Solar System where magic exists. Instead of postulating a change and a memory gap, What if we just have an uninhabitable Venus at one end of the gate and a habitable Venus on the other? The gate is only activated when a living creature enters the vortex, the gate opens and transfers the creature and whatever vehicle it is in, from one Venus to the next. Unmanned space probes don't activate it, therefore the gate is only discovered when their is a manned expedition in Venus' upper atmosphere which explores the polar vortex. the South Pole is also a convenient place to explore, because the two Venus' have two different rotation rates Our Venus rotates backwards once every 243 days, the other Venus rotates backwards once every 24-hours. There is a goddess responsible for making these changes in the parallel universe, there is also an Earth in this parallel universe, but it is non-technological, doesn't emit radio waves. The first explorers from our Universe can only observe this second Earth through a telescope from the other Venus, it looks like our Earth, all that is seen is the day side. No radio waves or other transmissions are detected coming from it. With some ingenuity a probe is sent to this second Earth, it is very expensively launched from the other magical Venus, there are buildings, some agricultural fields are detected, nothing industrial, satellite images of ships under sail are detected on the oceans, it appears the scientific revolution never actually occurred in this parallel Earth, but NASA is busy exploring this other Venus at the moment, various nations are setting up colonies on the surface of the magical Venus, but the natives do have something to say about it, as their are spell casters among them. Spaceships have to fly through the South Polar Vortex to get to this habitable Venus, to go back to our Earth, they have to ascend through the Polar vortex into the upper atmosphere of our Venus and then rocket into orbit where a mothership awaits to take it back to Earth. Magic is inoperative in the in the hot house venus and our earth, it only operates in the parallel universe of the other Venus. So Earthlings don't come in knowing a lot of spells, the natives have magic, but they lack technology. Technology works just fine there so it sort of balances. Getting to Venus from Earth is a bit expensive, so Earth colonists find themselves outnumbered by native spell casters and other fantastic denizens and creatures of this world, that some magic using goddess put on this planet after altering it to make it habitable.
Above the South Pole of Venus is a Polar Vortex. What if it was a gateway to another parallel plane of Existance, a parallel Solar System where magic exists. Instead of postulating a change and a memory gap, What if we just have an uninhabitable Venus at one end of the gate and a habitable Venus on the other? The gate is only activated when a living creature enters the vortex, the gate opens and transfers the creature and whatever vehicle it is in, from one Venus to the next. Unmanned space probes don't activate it, therefore the gate is only discovered when their is a manned expedition in Venus' upper atmosphere which explores the polar vortex. the South Pole is also a convenient place to explore, because the two Venus' have two different rotation rates Our Venus rotates backwards once every 243 days, the other Venus rotates backwards once every 24-hours. There is a goddess responsible for making these changes in the parallel universe, there is also an Earth in this parallel universe, but it is non-technological, doesn't emit radio waves. The first explorers from our Universe can only observe this second Earth through a telescope from the other Venus, it looks like our Earth, all that is seen is the day side. No radio waves or other transmissions are detected coming from it. With some ingenuity a probe is sent to this second Earth, it is very expensively launched from the other magical Venus, there are buildings, some agricultural fields are detected, nothing industrial, satellite images of ships under sail are detected on the oceans, it appears the scientific revolution never actually occurred in this parallel Earth, but NASA is busy exploring this other Venus at the moment, various nations are setting up colonies on the surface of the magical Venus, but the natives do have something to say about it, as their are spell casters among them. Spaceships have to fly through the South Polar Vortex to get to this habitable Venus, to go back to our Earth, they have to ascend through the Polar vortex into the upper atmosphere of our Venus and then rocket into orbit where a mothership awaits to take it back to Earth. Magic is inoperative in the in the hot house venus and our earth, it only operates in the parallel universe of the other Venus. So Earthlings don't come in knowing a lot of spells, the natives have magic, but they lack technology. Technology works just fine there so it sort of balances. Getting to Venus from Earth is a bit expensive, so Earth colonists find themselves outnumbered by native spell casters and other fantastic denizens and creatures of this world, that some magic using goddess put on this planet after altering it to make it habitable.
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The main diffence between my Homebrew D20 Modern and the books is that I use three Armor Classes AC, KAC, and EAC which stand for Armor Class Kinetic, Armor Class, and Energy Armor Class respectively. I use the 3.5 Editon of D&D for Armor Class, as their is no 5th edition D20 Modern, Armor Class is what muscle-powered weapons roll to achieve or exceed in order to hit, Kinetic Armor Class is used for all projectile weapons that fire bullets out of a gun, and Energy Armor Class is what rayguns use when targeting the opponent. Each Armor has three armor ratings, usually the highest armor rating is for regular Armor Class (AC), the next highest one is for Kinetic Armor Class (KAC) and the lowest one is the Energy Armor Class (EAC). This is why it is advantageous to use a raygun over a rifle firing a bullet, and why a rifle firing a bullet has an advantage over a bow and arrow. Certain armor types are designed to deflect or absorb the impact of bullets, while others are designed to reflect the beam of a raygun. Here are my revised armor tables, taken from the D&D 3.5 Players Handbook, the D20 Modern Core rulebook and the D20 Future Handbook respectively.
I should also mention here that the currency on Venus, are the standard D&D 3.5 coins, as most items come from the D&D equipment lists, off-worlders (visitors from Earth) bring their own equipment, but they also use the standard copper, silver, gold and platinum pieces that the natives of Venus use. There are a few modern settlements on Venus, these are the American Base, the European Union Base, the Chinese Base, and the Russian Base, each is a town of around 10,000 settlers, they use modern machinery and a combination of hire local laborers to do grunt work, and make use of draft animals, as equipment imported from Earth tends to be expensive, so the emphasis is to use local resources and labor whenever possible. Each settlement has a host country on Venus, which in exchange for trade with Earth, has agreed to allow these extraterritorial settlements of Earthlings within their national borders.
I should also mention here that the currency on Venus, are the standard D&D 3.5 coins, as most items come from the D&D equipment lists, off-worlders (visitors from Earth) bring their own equipment, but they also use the standard copper, silver, gold and platinum pieces that the natives of Venus use. There are a few modern settlements on Venus, these are the American Base, the European Union Base, the Chinese Base, and the Russian Base, each is a town of around 10,000 settlers, they use modern machinery and a combination of hire local laborers to do grunt work, and make use of draft animals, as equipment imported from Earth tends to be expensive, so the emphasis is to use local resources and labor whenever possible. Each settlement has a host country on Venus, which in exchange for trade with Earth, has agreed to allow these extraterritorial settlements of Earthlings within their national borders.
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Soon. Right now I'm in the planning stage. It is a fusion between D20 Modern and Dungeons & Dragons 3.5. I've created some home brew alterations in the rules to make the two systems mesh smoothly together. I'm swimming against a trend in Role Playing Game design to roll the dice one way for fantasy and another way for Science Fiction. I've examined Starfinder, and I find that it bends more towards fantasy with the science fiction part of it coming more than halfway to meet the fantasy part of it. I would like my setting to be 50/50. I could start playing it now, I am just getting the encounters ready at this point. I have four encounter tables one for Warm Forests, Warm Plains, Warm Mountains, and Warm Aquatic Surface. The Warm Aquatic also includes a lot of things that fly and it assumes the PCs are going to be on a ship when they have these encounters rather than underwater.
Venus doesn't have a moon, that means their are no lycanthropes to encounter. Navigation by sea is very difficult because the sky is overcast most of the time, and one can't see the stars to navigate by. If a means of flight is available, it is possible to get above the cloud layer and navigate by stars from above. You need a stable platform however, a flying carpet would be best for this I think. Most boats follow the coast as a result of the difficulty in navigation. There is warm everything on this planet, as it has no temperate zones, there are no seasons after all. Most people on this planet measure time by a span of days and weeks. 100 weeks is about two Earth years. People tend to celebrate 100-week anniversaries of their birthdays for example, for those that bother to keep track. When a human reaches his 800-week birthday, he is considered an adult by most societies on this planet.
The only Cold terrain type on this planet is Cold Mountains, and that is because those mountains are so tall, that they get cold near their summits, their peaks pierce through the cloud layer and often experience direct sunlight. Sunlight is intense once you get above the clouds, those clouds are there for a very good reason, you get twice the amount of sunlight you would get on a clear day on Earth, it is best to wear sunglasses or shade you eyes, because the sunlight and the reflection off of the cloud tops could blind you, so you need to protect your eyes, much like a drow for instance, a human who goes above the cloud layer needs to take certain precautions or suffer from light-blindness. I consider any terrain where it never snows a warm terrain, and where it does snow, the snow cap is more or less permanent, what does happen is the snowcaps get so high that the excess snow avalanches down the peaks to warmer altitudes and melts, and of course most Venusian mountains are volcanoes, when they do erupt, the release a lot of melt water and the result is floods!
Venus doesn't have a moon, that means their are no lycanthropes to encounter. Navigation by sea is very difficult because the sky is overcast most of the time, and one can't see the stars to navigate by. If a means of flight is available, it is possible to get above the cloud layer and navigate by stars from above. You need a stable platform however, a flying carpet would be best for this I think. Most boats follow the coast as a result of the difficulty in navigation. There is warm everything on this planet, as it has no temperate zones, there are no seasons after all. Most people on this planet measure time by a span of days and weeks. 100 weeks is about two Earth years. People tend to celebrate 100-week anniversaries of their birthdays for example, for those that bother to keep track. When a human reaches his 800-week birthday, he is considered an adult by most societies on this planet.
The only Cold terrain type on this planet is Cold Mountains, and that is because those mountains are so tall, that they get cold near their summits, their peaks pierce through the cloud layer and often experience direct sunlight. Sunlight is intense once you get above the clouds, those clouds are there for a very good reason, you get twice the amount of sunlight you would get on a clear day on Earth, it is best to wear sunglasses or shade you eyes, because the sunlight and the reflection off of the cloud tops could blind you, so you need to protect your eyes, much like a drow for instance, a human who goes above the cloud layer needs to take certain precautions or suffer from light-blindness. I consider any terrain where it never snows a warm terrain, and where it does snow, the snow cap is more or less permanent, what does happen is the snowcaps get so high that the excess snow avalanches down the peaks to warmer altitudes and melts, and of course most Venusian mountains are volcanoes, when they do erupt, the release a lot of melt water and the result is floods!
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Here are some NPC Stats. The default race is human.
The Statistics are based on those found in the DM's Guide 3.5
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And here is a D20 Modern Character Sheet:
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And here is my Bard:
And here is my Fast Hero from D20 Modern
And here is my Fast Hero from D20 Modern
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