Ramblings of a crazy birk

As you guys can see from the D&D board (all 2 of you out there >>;;) I'm pretty much the
main contributor to this area of the forum, and as you know I love D&D and the D20 system
in general quite extensively. For he longest time it was an all consuming hobby of mine to try
and find ways of incorporating the d20 system into all of my roleplays and into different sorts
of universes where ever possible. Some have proven easier to adapt the d20 system to than
others (RE's the easiest, just a lot of work. Pokemon on the other hand, is a nightmare.)

Some of the things I've thought about over the years include the following mediums:

Zoids: I know at least Trigger knows about this series, though I'm sure all of you have at the
very least heard the name, perhaps even seen the series on TV. is a franchise based around
a series of plastic toy models designed and produced by Japanese toy company Tomy (now
Takara-Tomy). First released in 1982, the models resemble a range of creatures including
mammals, dinosaurs, and insects. Over the years zoids has been released many different
names, and have fallen in and out of popularity, but the height of its american popularity was
in the early 2000's with the release of the animated series.

Depending on which series, or story you go by, zoids are either giant mechanical fighting units,
such as mechs, or they're living organisms that have evolved into what they are. That's the main
problem with putting zoids in a d20 format. See, the d20 system has a form of mech and a set of
rules in reguard to mech warfare. Essentially its a giant set of robotic armor with its own set of
weapons that's piloted by a basic d20 character. Essentially its a piece of equipment. This would
be fine for say, a gundam series or other mech series, but to me zoids are more than just
suits of armor.

I've tried for a long time to figure out how to bend the mech rules to work for me, and I've even
tried to make my own d20 system for it, but at the time I just didn't have enough knowledge to
make it work. However, since Wesker found the Dragonmech books, my interest has been renewed
in it, and I'll look into possibly making this into a game in the future.

Transformers: Since I bought the Beast Wars complete first season, I've been thinking about them
a lot, and transformers in general. I don't need to explain transformers at all, but beast wars might
be a different story. In 1995 Hasbro released a new line in the long idle Transformers line known as
Beast Wars. Like their autobot and decepticon predecessors, these were robots in disguise, but not as
vehicles, but animals. Dinosaurs, bugs, mammals, birds, dragons, sharks, you name it they probably
had a beast war of it. As with most toylines, they also got a cartoon to promote the franchise and thus
we got Beast Wars: Transformers. It was one of the first cartoon series to be made complete of CGI
Animation (Reboot being the first and coming out in 1994! holyshit!)

It didn't take long before I started thinking of how to make this universe and the transformers universe
as a whole into a d20 system, and its not as hard as you might think. The cybertronians are a race, they
can all be fitted with pre-existing classes from d20 modern, and there is already a pre-existing race of
living, sentient "constructs" (robots!) in the dnd universe known as Warforged, which could offer some
insight into future ideas for the game.

Super Sentai: My nerdiest knows no bounds my friends, even popular Sentai series, such as power
rangers, vr troopers, big bad beetleborgs, and japanese stables such as ronin warriors has not escaped
me. However, they have certainly not gained as much attention as the others. Of all the series listed
above, its the power rangers that I've thought extensively of. The mechs rules cover the various zords
perfectly, so the only real problem we have is the rangers themselves.

I remember beast wars. I use to have a computer game of it. I don't remember much about it other than it was completely awesome and now i'm coming over all nostalgiary.

Yes.

Personally none of those sound like a lot of fun to roleplay. Playing a giant robot that turns into a car just doesn't appeal to me.

Can't we just have a good'ol fashioned medevil dnd?

.. Don't be mistaken, this thread ISN'T a recruitment page. If you guys like the above,
fine, thats great, if you have any ideas to help me, that's cool. If not, then you're welcome
to your opinion and you're welcome to state such.

I didn't create the thread for any other reason other than I was bored.

Don't get me wrong Birk,all that you have listed sounds fantastic and fun to say the least.But the pain is in learning them or trying to.Your ideas seem very well thought through and intact I salute your imagination and creativity my friend

Tool wrote:

Don't get me wrong Birk,all that you have listed sounds fantastic and fun to say the least.But the pain is in learning them or trying to.Your ideas seem very well thought through and intact I salute your imagination and creativity my friend

I haven't even really mentioned any of the details of any my ideas, theres' really nothing much to learn,
cause there really isn't anything. The one consistent thing all of the ideas have in common is that they
use the d20 system, which is the dnd system, which can (and mostly is) applied to a lot of tabletop rpg
games.

The only one I've given any real detail to is the Resident Evil supplement I was working on.

No.

Triggitius wrote:

No.

Explain.

Dinobot wrote:

Triggitius wrote:

No.

Explain.

You give me my steampunk Gundam right damn now. D:<

Triggitius wrote:

Dinobot wrote:

Triggitius wrote:

No.

Explain.

You give me my steampunk Gundam right damn now. D:<

*bonks* Wrong thread. Dragonmech is the one with the steampunk gundams.



Here, you and pengy take these orc mechs and play rock'm sock'm robots.

I ALSO DESIRE A STEAMPUNK LIGER ZERO

Pffft. Even the slowest of zoids will run circles around these steam punks.

THEN I WILL SHOOT THEIR RAPID ASSES WITH MISSILES UNTIL THEY ARE DEAD

The steampunk mechs have primitive weapons. Your missiles lack homing capabilities.

Triggitius wrote:

I ALSO DESIRE A STEAMPUNK LIGER ZERO

Your steampunk liger 0 and berserk fury, sir

I approve.

Warhammer has better orc mechs

those arent steampunk tho.

D:< they could be with time and imagination.

Pengy wrote:

D:< they could be with time and imagination.

No, no, they can't. You're crazy, bird!

Dinobot wrote:

Pengy wrote:

D:< they could be with time and imagination.

You're crazy, bird!

As he has been trained.

MAKE THEM ALL STEAMPUNK NAO.

I don't know enough about the Dragonmech system to make these particular suits into a
steampunk variant, sorry but it isn't happening.