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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 443404" data-attributes="member: 8461">The way I understand it, WotC still sets the bar on these things. D&D is d20 Fantasy, and every other d20 publisher makes their stuff to build on that.While some people have tried modern d20 settings before, d20 Modern is going to be the baseline for that once it hits the shelves, especially considering that the d20 companies are already planning on releasing supplementary material for the book literally a day after its released.Futuristic sci-fi is simply going to follow the same paradigm. There are a couple out now, but nothing anyone considers "the definitive book to have to play d20 future sci-fi."Why? Well, in my guess, its probably just because we rely on WotC to set over-arching blueprints like that. Its one thing to make up how to introduce superheroes into a game, its another to say how to run an entire sub-genre of games. d20 is WotC's pet, so it probably isnt too wrong to say they are the best qualified to do that.Sadly for us, we probably won't see such a book for a while.Im the guy who asked about d20 Future at the d20 Modern seminar at GenCon, and, as Danzilla said, the question was turned aside. My theory is that, as long as WotC is already making a d20-based sci-fi game (Star Wars), they won't undercut themselves with a more generic book, and also, they just dont plan on getting to d20 Future for a while.I still think we will see one eventually, but it`ll be years. Until then, we`re probably just going to see specific sci fi campaigns from various d20 publishers that are good, but not what a WotC-released futuristic sci-fi genre book would be.</blockquote>

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