D20 Modern and 3.5 mash-up

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So I am looking at making a space exploration game that has no magic but some limited psionics. I am at the very least incorporating 3.5 for alien races, things like puppeteers as goa'uld like race, Dromites, Meanads, shadowswyft, Thri-kreen and Xeph as primary races from other planets. And I like D20 modern for the weapons, spaceships, mechs, cybernetics and such.

However, I am on the fence as to which system to use as the base and which to use as the support. I could see it going either way, D20 modern seems a little lower powered and clunky on the class side which might be good and it keeps people from asking for things that would be auto-banned because of the setting. But figured I would ask and see what people in the community think and get your thoughts on doing a game like this.

[Crake]

So I am looking at making a space exploration game that has no magic but some limited psionics. I am at the very least incorporating 3.5 for alien races, things like puppeteers as goa'uld like race, Dromites, Meanads, shadowswyft, Thri-kreen and Xeph as primary races from other planets. And I like D20 modern for the weapons, spaceships, mechs, cybernetics and such.

However, I am on the fence as to which system to use as the base and which to use as the support. I could see it going either way, D20 modern seems a little lower powered and clunky on the class side which might be good and it keeps people from asking for things that would be auto-banned because of the setting. But figured I would ask and see what people in the community think and get your thoughts on doing a game like this.

D20 moderns’s spellcasting is traditionally limited to level 5 magic through a 10 level advanced class, theres one for arcane and divine magic, which is basically just the first 10 levels of wizard/cleric, so you could probably just do that with the first 10 levels of psion.

That being said, i think theres build in rules for psionics somewhere in d20 modern, I know that theres psitech in d20 future that requires you to be psionic to use

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D20 moderns’s spellcasting is traditionally limited to level 5 magic through a 10 level advanced class, theres one for arcane and divine magic, which is basically just the first 10 levels of wizard/cleric, so you could probably just do that with the first 10 levels of psion.

That being said, i think theres build in rules for psionics somewhere in d20 modern, I know that theres psitech in d20 future that requires you to be psionic to use

Yeah there are two advanced classes (Battle Mind and Telepath) and a prc Psionic Agent; they use a version of psionics that is closer to 3.0 and keys the different psionic disciplines off different ability scores. I am not sure if there has been an update that would synchronize them with 3.5. Battle Mind and Psionic Agent only get to level 4 powers and telepath gets level 5. All three classes could be taken as low as level 4.

[StSword]

Well you said limited psionics.

d20 modern has the Battle Mind (http://dmreference.com/MRD/Characters/Campaign_Advance_Classes/Battle_Mind.htm) and the Telepath (http://dmreference.com/MRD/Characters/Campaign_Advance_Classes/Telepath.htm) advanced classes.

If these seem like the right speed for what you are envisioning than modern might be the right system for you.

[False God]

Have you checked out the Mass Effect d20 (http://www.jpvsgames.com/masseffectd20/) RPG? It does almost everything you're looking for.

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Have you checked out the Mass Effect d20 (http://www.jpvsgames.com/masseffectd20/) RPG? It does almost everything you're looking for.

I haven't, thanks I will take a look!