Polygon can exclusively reveal the first batch of hard-won licensing partnerships negotiated by developer and publisher Evil Genius Games. Where the original d20 Modern merely offered generic action archetypes for its classes, Everyday Heroes is bringing in famous licensed characters and settings. Soon you’ll be able to get your ass to Mars as Douglass Quaid, rescue prisoners of war as John Rambo, and stride your Jaeger into battle against towering Kaiju. With the help of d20 Modern’s co-creator Jeff Grubb, Everyday Heroes will let players step into the shoes of classic action movie heroes. A new game based on the open-source version of the 5th edition D&D ruleset will go a step further. Like an npc Navy Seal is level 10, if your characters reach level 11 they are better than perhaps the best modern warrior in the world.Back in 2002, d20 Modern helped to breathe life into third edition Dungeons & Dragons, expanding the tabletop role-playing game into a far more contemporary setting - less swords and sorcery, more ninjas and automatic weapons. So there is a wonkiness to the power levels, like base classes are way weaker than DnD type classes but once the numbers start getting there it kind of just promotes crazy shit. So from someone who may possibly have played in the longest D20 modern game in history, you will eventually succumb to DnD powers and murderhobo behavior just on the basis of the ruleset. It was like the Ghost army from return of the king cutting through the Persians like butter. You can imagine Spartan grand theft auto with the occasional fireball and kraken major illusion. So they loaded up a military truck with 305 assault rifles and time traveled. It had reached high level boredom (and we all were just murderhobo roleplayers at that time) that they decided to time travel back to Thermopylae and win the battle for Sparta (300 had recently come out. By the end it turned into urban Arcana ridiculousness. But we were like 14-16 and could play 5 hours a week. Alright D20 modern I guess you could say was my longest running campaign.

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