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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7408391" data-attributes="member: 996">Yeah, that'd've been the one that used the same utterly-un-D&amp;D-like column-shifting FASE-RIP system as TSR's Marvel Super Heroes.&nbsp; I picked it up, disliked it as totally unlike the prior two eds of GW, and never really played or followed it much, so can't comment beyond that.&nbsp;&nbsp; The 1st ed was D&amp;D-like in using 6 attributes (substituting Mental Strength for Wisdom), d20 attack rolls, matrixes and the like.&nbsp; It was different in level having less of an impact, lacking classes entirely, and much less access to healing.&nbsp; 2nd was similar.&nbsp;Yes, I have (someone ran it at our FLGS the other week, in fact).&nbsp; Gamma World has ranged from comparatively serious to completely whacky over the years, generally erring on the side of the latter.&nbsp; The 7th ed was about as far as it's ever gotten on the beer &amp; pretzels whacky end of the spectrum, it was a lot of fun, character generation was lightning-fast, yet characters comparatively balanced with eachother relative to other editions (which might not be saying much), and play was reasonably simple, with no daily resources to track (you just regained all your hps and any expended mutations (which could also 'flux' and change on you in the middle of combat) at the end of each encounter) and ammo &amp; artifacts just kinda coming and going at random...&nbsp;The 5th ed used the Alternity system that TSR was pushing at the time.&nbsp; 4th pre-dated d20, but was actually decidedly d20-like, possibly it influenced d20.&nbsp;&nbsp; The nominal '6th' ed of Gamma World used d20 Modern, and it was probably the most 'serious' edition, trying to be all plausibly futurist, it featured firearms, rogue AIs and killer industrial nanites instead of old-school robots, rayguns, and mutants - it was done by Sword &amp; Sorcery Studios (WWGS spin-off that did d20 games instead of Storyteller), however, and recent recountings of the game's history by WotC omit it (rightly so, IMHO), and substitute 'Omega World,' which appeared in a Dungeon Magazine, and used the d20 system to good effect.Something like Omega World could be published using the d20 system, and few 5e-isms, like Adv/Dis &amp; BA - actually, Omega World used a clunky healing sub-system called 'Reserves,' and 5e style HD (using the old-school GW convention of getting 1 HD per point of CON), could work quite smoothly for that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7408391, member: 996"] Yeah, that'd've been the one that used the same utterly-un-D&D-like column-shifting FASE-RIP system as TSR's Marvel Super Heroes. I picked it up, disliked it as totally unlike the prior two eds of GW, and never really played or followed it much, so can't comment beyond that. The 1st ed was D&D-like in using 6 attributes (substituting Mental Strength for Wisdom), d20 attack rolls, matrixes and the like. It was different in level having less of an impact, lacking classes entirely, and much less access to healing. 2nd was similar. Yes, I have (someone ran it at our FLGS the other week, in fact). Gamma World has ranged from comparatively serious to completely whacky over the years, generally erring on the side of the latter. The 7th ed was about as far as it's ever gotten on the beer & pretzels whacky end of the spectrum, it was a lot of fun, character generation was lightning-fast, yet characters comparatively balanced with eachother relative to other editions (which might not be saying much), and play was reasonably simple, with no daily resources to track (you just regained all your hps and any expended mutations (which could also 'flux' and change on you in the middle of combat) at the end of each encounter) and ammo & artifacts just kinda coming and going at random... The 5th ed used the Alternity system that TSR was pushing at the time. 4th pre-dated d20, but was actually decidedly d20-like, possibly it influenced d20. The nominal '6th' ed of Gamma World used d20 Modern, and it was probably the most 'serious' edition, trying to be all plausibly futurist, it featured firearms, rogue AIs and killer industrial nanites instead of old-school robots, rayguns, and mutants - it was done by Sword & Sorcery Studios (WWGS spin-off that did d20 games instead of Storyteller), however, and recent recountings of the game's history by WotC omit it (rightly so, IMHO), and substitute 'Omega World,' which appeared in a Dungeon Magazine, and used the d20 system to good effect. Something like Omega World could be published using the d20 system, and few 5e-isms, like Adv/Dis & BA - actually, Omega World used a clunky healing sub-system called 'Reserves,' and 5e style HD (using the old-school GW convention of getting 1 HD per point of CON), could work quite smoothly for that. [/QUOTE]

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