What's Your Dream Project?

[I'm A Banana]

Okay, as gamers, we're all pretty much also amateur game designers -- especially those of us who DM. Especially those who grow beyond the normal core and create house rules and such.

So, I have to ask: If you had unlimited funds, time, power, and rescources, what would your absolute dream project be? What would you like to work on/like to see made? What would be the crowning achievement for you, that would satisfy most if not all of your polyhedral dreams?

A mega-adventure of your campaign? A 4th edition with all your house rules implemented? A Virtual Reality D&D world? A compendium on using various psicine lifeforms as weapons? Your favorite setting? Your most ideal characters?

The possibilities are endless.

What would be your orgasmically joyful dream project? You don't have to choose just one -- go wild. And if you don't want to make one, choose one you'd like to force others to make for you.

I'm gonna give a few ideas from my upper echelon of plans...we'll see if that gets the ball rolling.

1) Final Fantasy d20. My website has a bit of the project going on, but it can never be everything I want it to be (namely: official, pretty in printing, and paying for my rent. ). I want it all -- core books, world-specific setting books, adventures that take you through the plots of the game and beyond. I crave the true amazingness of it all!

2) Fantasy World. A series of biiiig, campaign-setting-sized sourcebooks about various fantasy regions of earth and beyond A steampunk book, an Oriental book, an Aztec book, a Space-Fantasy book, all using the Core Rules, all able to be lifted, fittend, and weaseled into any campaign setting if desired. Think less specific Oriental Adventures/Nyambe, but for a lot of genreas in a lot of ways.

3) Prepackaged Campaigns. Basically, a finished DMing job, with an entire campaign, frills and all, meshed into one boxed set/book/whatnot. Gives levels, storyline, alternate paths, many adventures, etc. Ubermodules, basically.

Those would be my dreams to work on/have someone else do for me. Probably in heirarchal order.

What are yours?

 

[Joshua Randall]

Two words: d20 Magnamund.

*drool*

 

[2WS-Steve]

This will be a completely unfair answer:

Holodeck


Still hardware but more realistic, I'd like to see a roughly 4 ft. x 6 ft. LCD panel that laid flat, had a waterproof surface, lightpen to interact with the screen, and you could plug a laptop or PC into so that you could use it as a battlemat. I think something like this should fall within a reasonable price range in the next ten years.

 

[Katerek]

While not overly fantastic my dream would be to see a Third Edition Revised collectors set of the Big Three Books.

Each would be completely updated with all errata and include the bulk of each splat book and other compendium like resources.

In other words a PHB with all the splat books, a DMG with all supplemental material, a MM with Faerunian and other resources.

The PSiHB would be includeded split up across the three accordingly along with Manual of the Planes and Deities and DemiGods. Heck, why not throw in the ELH while we are dreaming.

Various Dragon Articles would be included as well.

Each book would clock in at an amazing 600+ pages and probably be US$80-120 each, but I would definately buy them.

That would be rock-star cool.

 

[Crothian]

A set of Historical Fantasy suppliments. Take all the majot time periods and ciovilizations and add in magic and explains what happens and how everything changes. Each book would cover if magic had been already for a while, and if magic had just been discovered.

 

[Impeesa]

Either: A large-scale Alternity conversion/expansion (i.e. many more weapons, cybernetics, mutations, expanded psionics, rules for mecha, rules for scaling any of the above to a given tech level..)

or one of the following licensed properties:

1) Warcraft. I know there's already a Warcraft III Player's Guide coming soon... but somehow I just don't have high hopes for it. What I'd like to see is something between the FRCS and a coffee-table setting book. Lots of information on the various cultures and stuff.

2) Megaman X. No reason why... I just think it'd be cool. Vaguely post-apocalyptic (particularly later on in the series, and I'd include information on running around the time of each of the games), and you get to play custom-constructed robots (the reploid character creation system makes up the bulk of the new rules - I've put some thought into this one already ).

--Impeesa--

 

[NewLifeForm]

Hmmm...

Wares Blade, a translation of the Japanese role playing game best described as Dungeons & Dragons meets Mobile Suit Gundam. I'm currently working on a D20 version of the game which I will probably put up on my website - once I have one

NewLifeForm
Where No One Has Gone Before...

 

[dave_o]

Mmm.

Black Company d20. Oh my god, Black Company d20.

*changes undies*

 

[333 Dave]

The same project I'm working on now, but with a full staff to help me so I can just handle the creative stuff. And of course in full glossy hardcover available every place you can buy Coca-Cola (which is everywhere). Yes, that would be my dream project. Oh, and all future projects I have planned with the same situation. That would work .

 

[Numion]

I'd spend endless amounts of money and research talent to achieve the same athmosphere and feeling that I had when running my first full-blown WHFRP campaign... and probably not achieve it.

Realizing the futility of that, I'd divert rest of the funds in creating a grand campaign for 3e, that took players from 1st to 20th level. Hmm... the funds were endless? Make that 1st to 30th

And no simple hackfest either - roleplaying galore, pictures of important npcs (like in WHFRP campaign), beatiful maps.. released in no less than THREE 3e FRCS like books. Color and hardback. The campaign could be set in completely new setting, and the adventure would be interwined with setting info.

That'd be my cup of tea!