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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chosen23" data-source="post: 212664" data-attributes="member: 4924">What I'm not looking forward to:I'm dreading the Epic-Level Handbook because one of my groups is full of rules lawyer/power gamer types who want to squeeze the rules for everything they've got.I'm also a bit apprehensive about d20 modern because having looked at Shadow Chasers and the other main d20 modern game around, Spycraft, I get the feeling I'll just be comparing the two and there's little to no way that Modern could compare.I am looking forward to d20 Modern though as it might make an interesting setting despite a cover that has very little character. The Shadow Chasers setting looks interesting but you do know Eden Studios is doing a Buffy RPG?If Dark Matter is carried through to d20 Modern then I'll be over it like a rash, but I get the feeling it won't be.What I am looking forward to:Kenzer & Co's Villain Handbook. Their Player's Guide was brilliant and they have done so much with Hackmaster that I'll almost blindly trust them with my money. One thing, is the Kingdoms of Kalamar Player's Guide going to be noticed by WotC as a real book? Will they cite it or acknowledge it as Core Rulebook IV when Monster Manual II comes out?Anything Spycraft/Shadowforce Archer. I was in love with the system and the game last September at GenCon UK at a demo of it and have preached it to my customers. It's leaving the shop as fast as the PHB did when it first arrived.Swashbuckling Adventures. My group have moaned to me about how 'complicated' 7th Sea is. I love swashbucking and fence regularly so that annoyed me. Now we can do it d20. The only thing is that they've gotten irritated with everything being d20. But I'm interested to see how they've fitted that many classes in one book.Chaosium's books for Cthulhu d20. The main book was brilliant (thanks to a lot of the Dark Matter team being behind it), Chaosium are a great company and I think their books will sell just as well in d20 (see, I'm thinking as the concerned retailer as well as a GM of two groups).Dragonlance d20. I LOVE KENDER!Fading Suns d20 products. I want to see if they can help promote a non-pavlovian approach to the d20 system and help not to encourage those power-gamers.Finally one thing I really like is that the d20 system is getting the other companies to think about what they're doing.-White Wolf's Storyteller System: Still going strong, big revamps for Dark Ages and still the best fluff in the business filling their pages (not an insult, I LOVE their Hunter books).-Hackmaster: I wish people wouldn't just scoff and say "It's a gag game." It is, but it is a real RPG as well.-Unisystem: Huh? Who? I only found out recently, it's the system behind the cool All Flesh Must Be Eaten who are doing the Buffy RPG.-CODA: Decipher's d20 rip off? I think not. It's actually more of an Alternity meets d6 system.Hopefully one of these companies will produce enough good competition that WotC will finally pull their fingers out and publish something good (Stronghold Builder's Guide???) and on time.Anyway, that's all my rantings. Enjoy them. Shout back if needs be but make it constructive. My WotC zombie customers give me un-backed up arguments and blind faith in a higher power to last me a lifetime.Chosen 23</blockquote>

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