World War II Resources for d20 Fun...

[Petya]

Campaign idea

I once read a book on alternate WWII:

The nazis invented space travel before we know it (in like 1939-1940). They had numerous space explorations (while founding out how to use the power of the mind-Psi). In 1945 the nuke thrown on Hirosima was in fact a bomb from them...an alien spaceship. There was a recon plane who saw the whole thing. The US said that they invented the Nukes. After the third reichs defeat the allied forces looted their secret bases on the Antarctica and everywhere on the earth they found out about the nazi space exploration of the Moon and about the colony on Mars. I think this would make an excellent campaign idea. If you're interested I could post more about this.

 

[Peterson]

I once read a book on alternate WWII:

The nazis invented space travel before we know it (in like 1939-1940). They had numerous space explorations (while founding out how to use the power of the mind-Psi). In 1945 the nuke thrown on Hirosima was in fact a bomb from them...an alien spaceship. There was a recon plane who saw the whole thing. The US said that they invented the Nukes. After the third reichs defeat the allied forces looted their secret bases on the Antarctica and everywhere on the earth they found out about the nazi space exploration of the Moon and about the colony on Mars. I think this would make an excellent campaign idea. If you're interested I could post more about this.

This sounds quite a bit like the conspiracy-heavy D20 Modern campaign I've been playing (off and on), using (almost) the above idea as the "background history" of the game, which takes place in early 2005. Of course, I've included such time-honored conspiracy favorites such as MJ-12 and the Bilderburgers, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilaterial Commission. All in all, it makes for a very scary and intense game for all involved.

Petya - I would be interested in hearing more about this, as my history could always use more twists and turns. If you don't feel like posting it, email me at SleepDepCreations@gmail.com.

Thanks,

Peterson

 

[Morbog of Ghetto D]

Dude....How many times have seen Skycaptain?...
This is a great drawing....Ive always loved these planes.....remember "golden monkey" TV series? Im sure you do....Whered this drawing come from?@?@?

 

[jerichothebard]

The flying boat picture? One of the commisioned artworks to be featured in Rocketship Empires, coming soon from StoryART Games!

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Hey, does anyone know of a simple, easy-to-read timeline for WWII? I'm thinking of running (somewhere in the murky future) an Indiana Jones/The Mummy-style campaign, where the heroes are running around sort of during/before the war, and would like to know roughly where things are happening when. Just so that I am not in danger of setting something in the wrong place at the wrong time - I have some real history buffs in my group...


thanks!

 

[ledded]

Kann@StoryART[/email]] is a picture of our flying boat that came across my desk yesterday

SWEET. Daddy likey. Daddy likey very much. I am very much in pulp genre and it's trappings, especially those planes, trains, and automobiles. Thanks for sharing.

Man, the more I read threads like this, the more I wish I would have read more alternate history and RPG stuff for alternate WWII before I started a side campaign/story hour for it. It seems like for every idea I thought was kind of neat, 10 other people have already had that idea and committed it to some form of printed matter. Oh well, I will continue to game in my little WWII supers world and hope I dont completely, and accidentally, rip someone off (darn you Hellboy, I knew I should have picked up those comics years ago... )

 

[Edward Kann@StoryART]

If any of you guys want the image sans the logo but with the artists signature on it I can email it to you.

I'll have some interior deck plans and such that I'd be happy to share as well finished in a few weeks. I'm drawing up how to strip the ball turret and the cannon mounted in there too.

I just happen to think this bird is pretty cool and would love to see her flying in other guys games.

We will be getting books out but I'm happy to share equipment pics. some gear stats or the deck plans no problem.

Just shoot me an email. I would just love to see her fly in some of your games a maybe hear about how much fun it was to use the idea. I send off rough sketches from my desk from whatever i happen to have in process at the moment all the time. Information wants to be free out on the internet and so why not. We'll still get books out if we share freely. Heck might even do better than we would otherwise.

Bottom line is that this bird wants to fly. I'm not about to lock her up in my desk and not share.

Edward

 

[dogboy]

What about these D20 WWII products

I have some D20 WWII products that are very good. There is Godlike, a Superpower slanted game that has it's own rules and D20 in the same book.
There's Weird Wars D20 that puts a horror spin on WWII with mutant orcs,
skeletal soldiers, Waffen SS Werewolves, etc. Very cool! Then to top it off, there is a pure WWII D20 rulebook on RPGNow that is great. Unfortunately the name escapes me, but it has a date like 1939 or 1941 on it. All of these are worth checking out. I will be buying the space rulebook mentioned
earlier and the other products from StoryArt games because they have some
awesome ideas. I know this sounds like a plug and I normally just rip bad games, but everything that I have mentioned is worth the money.

 

[Edward Kann@StoryART]

Hey Ledded. Shoot me an email man. I think we should hook up at a convention or something. I'll be traveling around next year and maybe we can sit around the game table and blow up nazi rail bridges on mars or something together.

You seem like a very cool cat.

Edward

I am at. edward_kann@yahoo.com

 

[Aaron2]

The flying boat picture? One of the commisioned artworks to be featured in Rocketship Empires, coming soon from StoryART Games!

There is an old minatures game in a rocketship WW2 kinda world. Its called Hard Vaccuum. The game works pretty well (similar to Full Thrust) and has some semi-cool computer generated spaceship pictures for the US, Brits and Germans.

http://members.aol.com/hardvacuumguy/index.htm

Hey, does anyone know of a simple, easy-to-read timeline for WWII? I'm thinking of running (somewhere in the murky future) an Indiana Jones/The Mummy-style campaign, where the heroes are running around sort of during/before the war, and would like to know roughly where things are happening when. Just so that I am not in danger of setting something in the wrong place at the wrong time - I have some real history buffs in my group...

I have a book called "Chronological Atlas of World War Two". Its absolutely invaluable. It has maps and timelines for the whole war and intersperses all the fronts together by date; it shows at timeline with the dates covered at the top of each page and the bottom has a next/previous page numbers if you are just tracking one particular front. The maps are clear and the writing is detailed and to the point. I use it more than any other WW2 book I have. It goes all the way from WW1 to the war crime trials of '46 and it covers major political events as well. I've seen it for sale in a couple used book stores for around $12. I've also seen a fold-out timeline.

Here's a link for some online timelines ....
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/wars/secondwwlinks/chronology.html

Aaron

 

[ledded]

There is an old minatures game in a rocketship WW2 kinda world. Its called Hard Vaccuum. <snip>

Cool, thanks for the link.

I have a book called "Chronological Atlas of World War Two".

I can't stress how much I agree with this. I have this book and it's invaluable for planning something wide-spanning.

Here's a link for some online timelines ....
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/wars/secondwwlinks/chronology.html

Aaron

Cool link. Here's a few that I've found to either be useful or downright cool

Omaha beach, D-Day, with good pics. Helped me a lot with a little piece I wrote for my Story Hour.
http://www.dday-overlord.com/POmahaBeng.htm
http://www.softwhale.com/history/D-Day/PictureHistory.htm

A site with pics of some guys who did Operation Market Garden in 20mm for gaming tables. Amazing stuff.
http://www.victoriouscolors.com/FallIn2003OPM.htm

Site about glider pilots with great pics of Market Garden
http://www.pointvista.com/WW2GliderPilots/holland.htm

Band of Brothers web site. Some good pics and info, plus a decent timeline feature.
http://www.hbo.com/band/landing/currahee.html

Good pics and info from the 1936 Olympics
http://www.iwitnesstohistory.org/ResidentPages/Wenzel/Wenzel%2036%20olympics.htm

Great weapons pics and info - WW2 British Airborne
http://www.britishairborne.org/weaponsairborne.html

France in WW2
http://www.amgot.org/fr-hist.htm

First hand accounts of the Battle of Huertgen Forest.
http://carol_fus.tripod.com/german_lt_gen_sixt.html

Great WW2 map reference
http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/index.htm

American Military History - WW2 in Italy
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AMH/AMH/AMH-22.html

WW2 Era War Posters - fabulous props for your game
http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/wpdb/index.asp?searchsubject=Quality%20of%20life

101st Airborne site with lots of info that you dont see everywhere 'We was bad bastards'
http://www.101airborneww2.com/

Turning points and casualties (note: I've had these numbers disagree with other sources, but there is still some decent info here)
http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko12530/ww2.htm

Kann@StoryART[/email]]
Hey Ledded. Shoot me an email man.

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