Friday, July 17, 2009

Finally, My D20 Modern Superhero Dreams Come True


I've been searching for quite some time for a super hero supplement for D20 Modern. I wanted the system to be compatible with D20 Modern, so Mutants & Masterminds was out of the question. I also wanted characters created with the supplement to be at least somewhat balanced with characters made without it (which sounds odd for super heroes, but it's what I wanted).

After going through a ton of reviews of games like Four-Color to Fantasy and reading over free supplements like Phoenix, I finally settled on Supers20 by RPG Objects. Although this is a supplement for Modern20 (an alternate version of the D20 Modern rules), there is very little in the pdf that can't just be dropped into a standard D20 Modern game without alteration. I'm a bit mystified with the perks, but I might just ignore them... the feat-based power progression is simple (and cool) enough that I'll probably just use the parts I understand (about 95%) and ignore the rest.

5 comments:

  1. Rebecca HubbardJul 17, 2009 01:22 PM
    Just caught your tweet about this. Would you be at all interested in writing something for Irregular Magazine?

    Recent blog:=- issue 1/ summer 09
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  2. Better late than never, I suppose. May I ask why you are so focused on D20 modern compatibility?

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  3. I'd love to! I'll shoot you an email.
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  4. Late to the party, indeed!

    Long story short: I wanted to run Rifts with D20 rules and then decided to dump Rifts altogether and just create my own multi-genre campaign setting. I was looking for a supplement that I could add to my blend of D&D, D20 Future, and Urban Arcana.
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  5. I responded to this yesterday... not sure why it didn't show up...

    In short, I'm not using it for a dedicated supers game. There are lots of other genres (and thus, other supplements) already included in Spectrum Shock, so compatibility is a must.

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