Re: Anime d20?

From: "Jonathan M. Thompson" <jthompson@????????????????.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:13 AM


> One of the reasons I was asking is because we were doing "Spelljammer" 
> clone
> project for d20 Anime. I had already written up some notes and the next 
> step
> is to give them to my 12 year old to run on our next game night (he wants 
> to
> run something and what better way to run cool stuff than to have a
> professional designer as a dad :-D). While its not Spelljammer its close
> enough without making major conversions and it’s something that will
> continue to be supported. Now really the question is, would the fan base 
> be
> as interested as I am in this project?

Sorry for the delay.

We already have 2e Spelljammer, Shadows of the Spider Moon, Hackjammer and 
the partially complete BtM version. But SJ needs more players and a version 
of Spelljammer that uses the Anime SRD might bring in players that are not 
interested in the other versions.

I think it would be really cool if your conversion notes could eventually 
get turned into a Beyond the Moons article (unless you are going to make 
this a commecial project like Spider Moon, Hackjammer or Dragonstar).

And if you are trying to do a commercial project like Dragonstar or 
Hackjammer, then maybe some of your content can be reused by people into 
more traditional Spelljammer games. Spelljammer is the fluff - not the 
crunch. So if your Anime project includes some new planets, I'm sure that 
players of all types of Spelljammer games would get some sort of use out of 
them. Battlefield Press could sell an "Anime in Space" game (if that is what 
you want to do) and BtM could use whatever setting you create as a new 
crystal sphere.

Even if you don't go that far with this idea, it would be fun to see how 
your son's games turn out, so please let us know how you both get on.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
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