litphoria

A character made for the d20 Modern system by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan.

It can be broken down into these different categories; I just thought that the main overarching structure/foundation was strong enough for it to be usable as its own category. I'm not entirely familiar with a lot of the derivatives outside of Modern and 3.5e but if you have some ones that stand out that would be very useful here. The Game System trait is very empty.

Only D20 based system I keep actually hearing about is D&D and its different editions, truth be told. Plus, if the systems are derived from D20, it means they are essentially D20 and you can just specify that in the Trait's context . After all, most of the time those are just reskins of the same thing with mostly minor differences or a new mechanic or two tossed there to fit the theme.

Not so sure about call of cthulhu, but 13th age is a fundamentally different game, not a reskin. A 13th age character is only compatible with D&D to the extent that characters can be remade in comparable systems.

Oh, so that one is different from what I've heard. But then again - how many of D20 systems are even used any widely? Maybe this one suggestion can be just substituted with two-three really major ones and that would be it.

Three or four, but yeah, this being a backbone system to be implemented in a game rather than a game in and of itself suggests we should probably go for those specific games themselves, and just add whatever specific games people are using.

Seems like there is some disagreement as to if this is too broad or not? What do we think? Just go for more specific stuff? I wouldn't really know what game systems players would want to look for.

D20 is a whole licencing system that covers a ton of games. Everything from D20 Modern, to the Green Ronin games (there are several systems) to the star wars games. It seems, to me at least, as someone who owns many of the D20 games, to be too broad a concept.

Since you are better versed in the topic, Brenton, could you tell us what of those are possibly widespread and popular enough to be worth creating in advance?

The obvious is D&D. Beyond that, D20 Modern is popular for those that like a dice system to their modern play. Beyond those, I am not certain which D20 system players would also play on here, so I would personally suggest that each one be added only as they are desired.

Alright, I'll start this one off as Modern (since I'm at least a bit familiar with it) and others can be added in as they come!

Do we have to list the game's authors? Is there multiple D20 modern that would need this distinction for?

No, but nonformulaic descriptions that describe more than what is in the title couldn't hurt.

Just didn't know if it was needlessly limiting (can a d20 modern come from someone other than those folks?) or if it was worthwhile having in the description.

More specifically though, there's a site called roleplaying games stack exchange which is devoted to exactly RPGs, and its system tag descriptions are often super enlightening and describe the game itself. If you thought you know which system that is, you'll know if you're right or in the wrong place from a glance at the system tag description. If you have no idea what the tag is, then its description will help give you an idea of what you're looking at, whether you'd be interested in learning more about it, and will help narrow down Google results if you find multiple.

Descriptive descriptions are helpful!

Just didn't know if it was needlessly limiting (can a d20 modern come from someone other than those folks?) or if it was worthwhile having in the description.

It's pretty much the one and only d20 modern. It helps a little bit by indicating to people who might be wondering what it is that it really is a specific game system that was written by some folks. (Many people who play RPGs think there's only D&D, and many of the rest think there's only games that are pretty much the same as D&D, so it helps to elaborate.)