Axolotl
2010-05-23, 01:28 PM
I'm currently planning a Sci-Fi campaign basedaround using as many aliens/monsters from as many different Sci-Fi settings as possible combined with typical DnD monsters/ setting concepts. I'm aiming for a sort of sandbox playstyle in a setting that's somewhere between Silver Age comics, Doctor Who and Pulp Fantasy/Science Fiction, with a setting that's overflowing with the unusual and the bizarre and where I can place any monster or race from any source and have it fit in.
However I need help trying to work out what system to use. I want to use an edition of DnD because that's the ruleset I'm most familiar with and the one that most captures the feel I'm going for. ODnD is far too rules lite for the type of characters I want, 1e ADnD would work well but to try and adapt it to a Sci-Fi setting would require me to gut al the classes and rebuld them from scratch, 3e is the set I'm most familiar with but is somewhat too topheavy for m likeing and I've never seen any sort of vehicle or starship rules that haven't been painfully bad and for 4e I like the system but it's not suited to the more sandboxy playstyle I'm aiming for (also building all the required Sci-Fi classes would be beyond my abilities).
At them moment I'm torn between taking ODnD and building it up to the required level and trying to blend 3e with d20 future rewriting most of the rules.
However I need help trying to work out what system to use. I want to use an edition of DnD because that's the ruleset I'm most familiar with and the one that most captures the feel I'm going for. ODnD is far too rules lite for the type of characters I want, 1e ADnD would work well but to try and adapt it to a Sci-Fi setting would require me to gut al the classes and rebuld them from scratch, 3e is the set I'm most familiar with but is somewhat too topheavy for m likeing and I've never seen any sort of vehicle or starship rules that haven't been painfully bad and for 4e I like the system but it's not suited to the more sandboxy playstyle I'm aiming for (also building all the required Sci-Fi classes would be beyond my abilities).
At them moment I'm torn between taking ODnD and building it up to the required level and trying to blend 3e with d20 future rewriting most of the rules.