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d20 BrikWars
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lugnet.gaming
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Fri, 31 May 2002 08:13:10 GMT
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I'm probably the last one to hear about this, but I just got a nice long
e-mail from a guy named Jeffrey Schecter that clued me in to this thing
Wizards of the Coast is doing, essentially giving free license to any Joe
off the street to use Dungeons & Dragons' d20 system in their own projects:
D20 home page: http://www.wizards.com/D20/
The FAQ: http://www.wizards.com/D20/article.asp?x=dt20010417a
The Open Gaming License: http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/OGLv1.0a.rtf
The D20 System License: http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/d20stlv3.rtf
Now Jeff has this idea that it would be cool to have a d20 BrikWars. I'm
not so sure. Seems like BrikWars is optimized for wargaming and d20 is
optimized for role-playing and they probably won't mix well at all.
I do see that there would be some advantages to having conversion tables
that would allow you to import your cherished 16th-level Antipaladin into a
BrikWars game, or import d20 spell lists or monster stats, or on the other
hand convert BrikWars units into d20 units so that your roleplaying party
could suddenly run into a pack of 12 4th-level Jar-Jarses. Whether or not
that would be worth the time and effort of doing all the necessary math is a
whole other issue.
So I thought I'd bring the conversation over here to fun.gaming to see if
anybody sees some hidden potential in this that I don't.
Secondly, I hate to see the brick-oriented RPG thread die - who's up for
putting together "D20 Castle World" ?
- Mike.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I think I agree with your analysis. (...) I'm still mulling about the idea of a brick oriented RPG, but I really feel like staying away from D20. If D20 was being published similar to GURPS where you have a genre agnostic core rule book and (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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| I know a lot of people have reservations about the d20 system. It is far from perfect, and has its own peculiar brand of illogic (hey, paladin, why dont you put on the sorcerer's Cloak of Charisma so you can heal more damage) but still manages to do (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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