WW's Adventure/Abberent/Trinity to be d20! (Merged w/other thread)

[Psion]

WW's Adventure/Abberent/Trinity to be d20!

Yes, it's true:

http://www.swordsorcery.com/swordsorcery/press/PR_Continuum.html

Man, and some people over at RPGnet are already moaning.

Personally, I like Adventure!, but could take or leave (well, okay: leave) abberant and trinity. Could this mean that d20 has a cool pulp game at last!

Only bad thing: they chose 3.5 instead of d20 modern as a baseline. Yes, I know that they will probably reach more people that way, but I feel like it would be a better product with modern as a baseline.

 

[BiggusGeekus@Work]

I like d20, but....

How many times are they going to release that setting anyway!?!?!?!?

 

[drnuncheon]

Huh. This should be interesting. I'll have to see what they do with Aberrant.

 

[d4]

[looks at calendar...] did i just accidentally hibernate through the winter and it's now April 1st?

no? huh.

very interesting. i'll be keeping an eye out for this one. i have almost purchased Adventure! any number of times, but the WW house system keeps stopping me.

i agree Psion -- why they didn't go d20 Modern has me somewhat puzzled. hopefully there'll be a conversion (official or not) at some point.

 

[trancejeremy]

Well, how well did d20 modern sell vs. D&D?

Personally, if its d20 Modern, I wouldn't touch them. Regular d20, I'll probably be getting Adventure at least.

 

[trancejeremy]

Also, on the plus side, having it regular d20 should make it easier to use with Call of Cthulhu d20 or Stargate

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, it would be nice if they include d20 Modern rules notes in the product's appendix.

Personally, with only a few exceptions (Spycraft for one), I wouldn't touch any modern-day game setting that requires the PHB, but I do understand the current market, as well as the number of PHB owners as opposed to d20 Modern owners (but they're increasing).

 

[Voneth]

[looks at calendar...] did i just accidentally hibernate through the winter and it's now April 1st?
i agree Psion -- why they didn't go d20 Modern has me somewhat puzzled. hopefully there'll be a conversion (official or not) at some point.

Well, Gamma World is d20 Modern with notes for switch it to d20, so hopefuly, they will either do the same with the Continum books, or have a web enhancement.

Posted by - Today at 07:14 PM
I like d20, but....

How many times are they going to release that setting anyway!?!?!?!?

I think d4 has answered your question.

i have almost purchased Adventure! any number of times, but the WW house system keeps stopping me.

My worst case story was when I had a potential player already rock n roll and then he found out it was White Wolf. He was turned off because of a Werewolf game he played once and didn't care that A!A&T ran off a different varient and was a different world.

"Even if I played the game and liked it, I'd have to stop playing it after I figured out it was WW, because that fact would always be in the back of my mind."

Sorry to rant, but I am amused/frustrated how a lot of former WW naysayers are now the biggest customers of Sword and Sorcery stuff ... and they seemed shocked that WW can make good DnD stuff. The company was always good at game, it was just that few gamers wanted to take the effort to jump out of their ruts.

While I am not thrilled that the settings will go d20, I am hoping it will give them the exposure they deserved the first time around. To my knowledge, Trinity was one of the first RPGs to embrace the idea that cybernetics could be made obsolete as bio-tech develops.

And yeah, Aberrant will be ... interesting since last year was the big "superhero" breakout.

 

[Staffan]

I like d20, but....

How many times are they going to release that setting anyway!?!?!?!?

Well, Trinity, Aberrant and Adventure! are pretty much different games. They're sort of set in the same world, but in different time periods and with different protagonists. The similarities are much smaller than between, say, Vampire and Werewolf.
So, this would be the second incarnation of each of the games.

 

[JEL]

Makes me wish I could access RPG.Net at work (it trips the internet filters for games) just so I could start reading the responses. It's good news to me because I'm an avid hater of dice pool systems. I only hope they revamp the Trinity setting into something halfway interesting.