#d20 modern

[noybusiness]

Please Donate to Help Writer Owen Stephens Fight Cancer!

Owen Stephens has written material for various RPGs. I'm donating $60 a month, myself.

[vividvermeer]

Aaand my full art trade piece for Drow Secret Satan for @parziivale! Anane is sooo stylish, my goodness!

DSS organized by @leidensygdom

[gammaknights]

Looking for Players - Gamma World

[LFP] GAMMA WORLD D20 [LFP]

Mature audiences only; Link below

Ready to play Gamma World D20 in a hard Sci-Fi setting surviving the robot apocalypse?

Time Slot: Bi-weekly, Wednesdays, 8:30 to 11:30 ET

Join the mayhem: https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/375821/the-god-machine

Or via discord: god_of_the_robots

[poundcakecrm]

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[doctor-croctor]

TTRPG TIP

If you need a map, try using something like Caltopo or looking up historical county maps for an area. I've played around with printouts of intricate webs of backroads that I've marked up to represent local areas in fantasy, modern, and apocalypse settings.

Nothing beats having a random towns layout and projecting your rpg upon it to keep track of what might be nearby, or to see if that army of the dead that your party ignored the plot hook for is going to cross their house in town before reaching the town Chapel.

[disgruntledexplainer]

if anyone ever wants to work with me on some experimental D&D/Pathfinder stuff, please let me know.

[thesezombiestastelikeashes]

Wack Donalds Galactic Empire World Building

Yeah I said I'd do this if it got 5 notes and it got 0, but what do I care?

Here's the backstory for my dumb episodic sci fi game and the inspiration list:

The classic Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (book)

Dimension 20's A Starstruck Odyssey (live play)

The Young Lief spinoff from Midnight Burger (podcast) ((honestly 90% of the inspiration for the bonkers premise is this and hitchkers))

Oz 9 (podcast) ((players if you hear me say "its not my fault" in a very specific accent thats from this))

a larp a friend started working on a system for where there was a robot revolution

a d6 starwars game i played in where my pc was a robot assassin

my episodic zine based off the combination of those two games! which once i upload it to kofi will be linked here i'm sure

Backstory below the cut for keeping the post succinct on whoever's home screen this winds up on

It is well known in the universe that cows were initially an intergalactic non-space-faring race from the planet Bos Mootarus (bOHs mOO-tar-us). Around the time the rest of the universe became space faring, a capitalist focused planet within the same system of Bos Mootarus began hunting the peaceful species as they discovered their meat was delicious. The capitalist species known as WacDonalds began a corporate take over of the universe, using their delicious Mootaran based meats to establish franchises in many solar systems which led to a financial domination of worlds. As their financial and fast food empire expanded, their breeding and culling practices of Mootarans went unreported as they were non-space-faring and had not connected to the rest of the interconnected galaxies. As Mootarans began to go extinct from increased demand, WacDonalds began to supplement their burgers with an addictive plant by-product, slowly replacing the meat entirely with the plant based material. 

A group of revolutionary journalists discovered the culling and genocide of Mootarans and secretly began sneaking them out of the system, to the only other sentient planet without space faring technology- EARTH. EARTH has become a Mootaran Sanctuary where they grow and live in peace (as far as the revolutionaries are aware) and the revolutionaries occasionally still send Mootarans to EARTH for safe keeping. (This is why many depictions of aliens show cows being beamed by spaceships, humans have simply misinterpreted this as abductions instead of the relocation that it actually is. Silly humans.) 

WacDonalds has become more desperate to seed the idea that meat is unnecessary, promoting a radical cult of cykoteks which believe that meat is the way of the past. Because their plant by-products can fuel electronics (like corn fueled engines but way better and sciencier) they branched into medical cybernetic research and have begun a branch of the company which provides cybernetik organ replacements. The organ replacements however tend to be faulty, leading to cykotek electrical problems that cause blinding rages and moments of violent psychosis. This new line of revenue has combined with an underground cykotek gladiatorial ring where those who cannot pay off their cybernetic surgeries are sent to fight to pay off their debts to the company.  

As time has gone on the Sathars have made it part of their mission to protect the Mootaran Sanctuary, though no one is certain why. The belief that Trump was an alien plant in order to prevent further progress (scientific or otherwise) of the human race is an accurate one.

[wingedd20]

Occasionally, I see someone and think that's a modern-day RPG character.

First one was a guy on a blue moped with an American flag patterned jacket and two metal baseball bats crossed like sheathed swords on his back. One of these was also flag patterned.

Just today, I spotted a woman(?) On a blue motor trike (the motorcycle looking thing with 2 wheels in the front) with a plastic skeleton set up to look like another rider hanging on from behind.

[maklodes]

I tried out a D20 Modern campaign for a while -- an attempt to create an RPG that was based on the same core mechanics as D&D 3.0, but untethered to the fantasy archetypes of D&D.

It wasn’t bad, but the class system felt really out-of-place and pointless. The initial classes are based on the six attributes. Thus you can be a “strong hero,” “fast hero” (dex), “tough hero,” “smart hero,” “dedicated hero” (wis), or “charismatic hero.” Overall, the classes have some tradeoff among factors like attack bonus, skill points, hit dice, saves, etc, plus some optional abilities and bonus feats, but without particularly unique mechanics or longstanding archetypal imagery like a wizard or barbarian, being a “dedicated hero” or the like doesn’t really feel like anything in particular.

It felt like it would have been better as a classless system where you could freely choose to allocate resources toward aspects of the character you want to strengthen, along the lines of the Fallout SPECIAL system, but it was too tied to the D&D tradition to broach that option.

[frigidreads]

The unapproved and unofficial history of the Minbari. The video the Vorlons Don't want you to See!

[squishymar]

I just don’t stop do i (i will one day who knows) LETS GO BAD KIDS ☀️✨

[racherrieart]

I've been playing a TTRPG with a modern setting lately with my friends. This is my character: Brooklyn Tate. Our game is set in 2009 Seattle, and my character is a high school student. So I went with a "school picture" type background, but made it prettier than the terrible ones.

[in-search-of-an-exit]

I know in Fantasy High it’s not super touched on how religion works outside of clerics but does anyone else think it’s crazy that Riz at least isn’t a follower of Cassandra.

Like there is a character who needs more followers for her god of mystery and the night and in her party is a kid who is a private investigator, obsessed with solving mysteries, stays up all night and uses the shadow blade.

Not to mention how the unknown and the comfort of the unclear night is such a good metaphor for adventuring. They are constantly solving mysteries and going into the edge of the world and learning how complicated the world is. Idk it feels weird how like in a world with real gods who have specific domains, all the bad kids aren’t followers of Cassandra or at least discuss their religious affiliations more.

[rabdoidal]

BINX AND ANDHERA MODEL/DESIGNER AU

binx is a fashion design student that manages to lie her way into a prestigious internship at a couture magazine, and andhera is the youngest child of the ceo, whos currently working as a secretary. binx wants to use the internship to gather resources to fill out her portfolio for after she graduates, but when andhera discovers that binx is not, in fact, up and coming designer gwyndolin thistlehop, but instead a university student, he throws that opportunity into jeopardy. luckily for binx, andhera is nothing like the intimidating ceo, and is willing to help binx be a star student, as long as she promises to pretend to be his partner around his nosy mother, who has been trying to arrange love matches for him.

bonus:

🧵 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🧵

[peoplegettingreallymadatghosts]

this is starting to get out of hand

[thesezombiestastelikeashes]

Wack Donalds Scifi Game Update

We got a new player, he's playing a HUMAN ranch hand that got stolen by a robot (our barbie bot) and taken to space

Our first session I ran as a simulation, I gave them the option of breaking out a dude, combat, or space combat. They chose breaking out a dude: the only difficult path. I love them so.

So we have the giant worm who forged paperwork so it seems like everyone works here

the tiny cychotek hobbit that kept asking if it was time to shoot things and ended up getting a stupid high technology check to make an alarm go off in another part of the simulated prison ship

the barbie bot in a crate because ??? (i never quite got to the reasoning)

and now the ranch hand kidnapped by the barbie bot who went "i see a box and a dolly and a i move it" and successfully moved the barbie bot and box to the cell to get simulated breakout person into the box with the barbie bot and out again

It all went smoothly, they learned their sheets a little better, and we all had fun

This week they get to choose from the remaining simulations or actually doing the break out (and i'm gonna super suggest simulation)

In keeping with my own dnd advice for long campaigns: the first few sessions are all low stakes, get used to each other and the system. Once we hit the real work (aka once they leave the simulation room) they get walloped with "the realistic stakes of the outside world" session aka "whelp we didn't plan for this, lets see how lethal the world is"