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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9296701" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Can't see current WotC doing it, but there are already retro-clones that do some of them with the serial numbers filed off, usually using OSR rule sets.&nbsp; Not impossible to imagine a fan doing something like that but leaving it system-agnostic - distill the essentials of a setting down to the fluff alone, change some names so you don't get a C&amp;D letter, and then sell pdfs or even POD through DTRPG.&nbsp; There are certainly stranger labors of love on there already, and less sellable ones. The modular pod-ship technology (originally seen in the Vector 3 microgame) was also pretty neat (I'm one of the few people I know who actually kind of liked Delta Vee) and they added some great material through Ares, especially that shapeshifting xeno species.&nbsp; That article alone was on par with the best of the Traveller alien species writeups.&nbsp; I could see re-using the setting with d20 Future or perhaps Cepheus (which is more open to not using Traveller tech assumptions, thankfully).You're not the only one.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; I wound up rather liking d20 Future (and actually ported the Spacemaster/Silent Death setting into it for a short campaign) but the fact that it ported stuff from Star Frontiers and Alternity was the big initial draw for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9296701, member: 7044704"] Can't see current WotC doing it, but there are already retro-clones that do some of them with the serial numbers filed off, usually using OSR rule sets. Not impossible to imagine a fan doing something like that but leaving it system-agnostic - distill the essentials of a setting down to the fluff alone, change some names so you don't get a C&D letter, and then sell pdfs or even POD through DTRPG. There are certainly stranger labors of love on there already, and less sellable ones. The modular pod-ship technology (originally seen in the Vector 3 microgame) was also pretty neat (I'm one of the few people I know who actually kind of liked Delta Vee) and they added some great material through Ares, especially that shapeshifting xeno species. That article alone was on par with the best of the Traveller alien species writeups. I could see re-using the setting with d20 Future or perhaps Cepheus (which is more open to not using Traveller tech assumptions, thankfully). You're not the only one. :) I wound up rather liking d20 Future (and actually ported the Spacemaster/Silent Death setting into it for a short campaign) but the fact that it ported stuff from Star Frontiers and Alternity was the big initial draw for me. [/QUOTE]

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