What are you going to do with d20 Future?

[ragboy]

So the preview is out and there's definitely some Star Frontiers, which makes me very happy.

Any homebrew campaign settings out there?

I'd like to see the setting of Hyperion translated into an RPG. Dan Simmons had a beautiful "world" with very intricate societies and mythos. The FORCExxx military structure (FORCE:space FORCE:marines, etc), the AI's, human cultures with their own worlds. Not sure if I'll get the time, but I may steal liberally from that series.

 

[DarkWhite]

Yeah, Star Frontiers was always a favourite of mine too!

Now that D20 spans fantasy, horror, modern, future etc, it would be great to resurrect West End Games' TORG setting, crossing over each of these.

 

[Dark Wolf 97]

I am definatly going to create a Battletech (or Mechwarrior) campaign, then a futuristic horror game.

Later

 

[Liquidsabre]

Shadow Run!

 

[Kai Lord]

Shadow Run!

Why not just use Urban Arcana?

As for me, Star Frontiers...with a healthy dose of Appleseed and Blade Runner.

 

[d4]

i want to create my own sci-fi campaign setting. far future, definitely, but with a kinda "retro tech" feel. something between Star Wars and Dune. there'll be high tech, but it'll be limited to certain applications, while others (such as nanotech and computer technology) will be severely retarded or absent altogether.

i might not have any aliens, and instead have a large variety of pantropic human species.

there'll probably be some kind of over-government, but very weak. weaker even than the Old Republic of Star Wars... more like today's UN, which can make recommendations and sanctions, but has little or no enforcement power.

i want a hyperspace model in which the skill of the navigator, and not the quality or speed of the ship's engines, is the main factor in determining travel times. i also want travel times to be variable, and only loosely based on distance in the real world as well. i've got something involving an infinite number of two-dimensional "subspaces" that seems like it could work. it involves being able to find the two-dimensional plane perpendicular to the line incident with the two points you are attempting to travel between. the skill of the navigator determines how close you can get to this theoretical optimum (which, if it could be found, would allow instantaneous travel no matter what the distance).

i'm probably going to have psionics of some kind, though probably rather low-key and not very powerful. i'd like to tie them into a religious or spiritual institution as well.

just some things i've been musing about until i actually get the book and can start work on the setting in earnest...

 

[Bill Scott]

I thought we were already having this conversation. Let me check. 'checking' Yep, I'm right

As I said in the other thread, I'm going to do one of the following campaigns;

FireFly
Space; Above and Beyond
Earth 2
Starship Troopers

 

[Krug]

Wh40k! :d

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

Wh40k! :d

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[Turanil]

I have two options:

1) I am already preparing a Grim Tales campaign in a world inspired by Moorcock's Elric and Corum. Really nothing sci-fi here at first sight. However, in the Corum's novel, the hero (who comes from a mdieval fantasy world) meets with a specie of extremely technologically advanced people who live in flying cities. The idea is that in planes dominated by Law, technology thrives and eventually becomes to the level of sci-fi. I have already added a race extremely close to the d20 Future biodroid in my fantasy setting. This race comes from a dimension of Law. The world is Elric like fantasy, but at some point, due to dimensional trael they will probably visit a world of sci-fi.

2) I think that combining Transhuman Space and d20 Future could do some great campaign of hard sci-fi: no psionic and absolutely no magic.