[RPG]: d20 Future, reviewed by NPC Jeremy (4/3)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10569.phtml

Jeremy Reaban's Summary:

d20 Future covers a lot of ground - space, robots, mecha, starships, cybernetics, mutants. Unfortunately, the book is hamstrung by its scope - each subject gets very shallow coverage because there's just not any room to cover it any deeper.

Go to the full review for more information.

Post originally by arcady at 2004-08-20 08:01:35
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My first thought would be to contrast this with Star Hero:
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10547.phtml

And from the sounds of it, it comes up short by comparrison - though it may have better art and graphic design.

Post originally by unterhund at 2004-08-20 08:45:43
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I'm going to side with arcady here. And Star Hero is slightly less expensive, too.

Post originally by shade at 2004-08-20 09:11:19
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Which doesn't do some people any good if they don't have the Hero System. So the real question should be, how does it compare to other d20 sci-fi games? Say Dragonstar, Judge Dredd, or Gamma World. I'm not familiar with any of these so I'll let someone else chime in at this point.

Post originally by David Bolack at 2004-08-20 09:15:18
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I'm adding this for anyone else who was missed/overlooked/not talking enough about D20 Future based works they are putting out.

In my case, I am currently working with Bruce Baugh, Bryant Armour, and Eric Burns to adapt Star Ace to D20 Future for Phil Reed and co over at Ronin Arts.

Also, the ever brilliant James Maliszewski has Fourth Millenium on the way as well.

Post originally by David Bolack at 2004-08-20 09:27:27
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I forgot the info on Fourth... Here's a nice capsule.

http://www.creationcrash.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=27

Post originally by K Peterson at 2004-08-20 09:27:37
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I thought that Fourth Millenium was a product for the Tri-Stat system. Has this changed, or will there be conversion information provided?

Post originally by Charles Gray at 2004-08-20 09:33:22
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Most other D20 Sci-fi RPG's cover one genre or setting T20, Judge Dredd etc.
The big failing of D20 future is that it tries to cover the entire sci-fi spectrum and do it in a book smaller than D20 modern. It fails, unfortunately, because any one part is just too small to really found an entire campaign on.

Post originally by Clayton A. Oliver at 2004-08-20 10:08:47
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It gives me enough information about the book to make an informed decision on a purchase.

Or a not-purchase, as the case may be.

Thanks!

- C.

Post originally by shade at 2004-08-20 10:28:13
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I think what some of you are failing to realize is that nowhere on the cover or in the book does it say "campaign setting." The author of this review is right in respects to D20 Future being a toolkit for creating your campaign. I disagree with his thoughts of it being an incomplete one however. Okay, so they gave us 7 or 8 two page campaign samples. So what? It's better than nothing and as I said this book isn't intended to be a campaign setting. I think those of you complaining are doing so for the wrong reasons. I myself am actually quite happy with the book. I don't need 200+ pages on a single campaign setting so that I know a Dralasites mating rituals. Give me the quick and dirty setting and let me fill in the gaps as I see fit. That's why I'm a GM.