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Here is the list of books that will be allowed to be used in the campaign.

d20 Modern Core Rulebook (obviously)
d20 Cyberscape
d20 Future
d20 Future Player's Companion
d20 Future Tech
d20 Modern Player's Companion
d20 Modern Weapon's Locker

A Number of other 3rd party manuals that I have are being considered, but even if they are allowed, they will require extensive editing and house-ruling to integrate them into the campaign.

Although it'll probably be among the last things I complete, I'll eventually delete this thread and replace it with the character creation guidelines and the game's house rules. Right now, though, to give you an idea of what the game will look like, I'll tell you a bit about what to expect with this campaign in terms of gameplay (backstory is why I'm writing the history/timeline/etc articles.

The current campaign is actually based on an in-progress book I've been writing (that's currently on hiatus pending doing something other than spending 16+ hours/day either at school, work, with girlfriend, or other stuff.) It is a relatively "Hard" science fiction setting where all the tech is based on, at the very least, actual science. (Though obviously some liberties are taken and not everything will be based on *current* science as I will take advantage of the leeway for other discoveries that may occur between now and 369 years from now.

The campaign setting and the vast majority of the game will take place in the Sol System. Interstellar travel is possible, but even though FTL travel is technically possible in this setting, it is prohibitively expensive, energy-consuming, and will still take years to get to even the closest neighboring solar systems.

There are no intelligent aliens in this campaign, though I'm leaving open the idea of discovering alien microbial life or even macroscopic life forms. (I haven't yet decided on the nature of alien life in our own solar system, but it is plausible to exist or have existed in this solar system at some point in time.) Though that'll hardly make an impact on gameplay other than maybe as a McGuffin for a mission.

There is no time travel... (sort of). You could technically travel into the future in a manner of speaking with near-light speed travel, but unless you have vast sums of money (like only the sort available to a major national space program over the course of several years) to spend constructing a specifically designed starship to do so, all you'd be doing is launching yourself out of the solar system with no reasonable expectation of returning since no spacecraft is designed to last more than a few months on fuel and food reserves, even with renewable energy sources and the ability to transform interstellar dust into food and water. The fastest sort of vessel available to a citizen could travel up to half light speed, but the effects of time dilation would still be too small to notice. So you could time travel, but it would be extremely expensive in game time and in-game resources for pretty much zero benefit.

Time travel to the past is absolutely impossible and will never be in this campaign, so don't expect to force me to try to figure out how the universe manages to avoid paradoxes.

This campaign will not be making use of inter-dimensional anything, so don't expect to run into a goateed evil version of yourself.

There will be no magic or other supernatural elements in this campaign. Despite the fact that this campaign will be influenced from the likes of Outlaw Star, you won't have to hide from a group of creepy robed figures repeatedly chanting "Magua-san-fa."

As a general rule and especially for this sort of campaign as opposed to a Fantasy campaign, your characters are talented and certainly on the above-average side in terms of talents and other advantages compared to the common 24th century citizen - even compared to equivalent citizens in terms of wealth and talent. However, in a broader sense, you are not destiny's child. You're not chosen by the gods for a divine mission. You're not special. Your characters can certainly choose to believe otherwise, but my point is that this isn't going to be a fantastic campaign where legends will be written about you for defeating a fire-breathing lizard. At best, you'll get your 15 minutes on the news, get put down by angry pundits, Congress will cut your VA benefits so they can cut taxes on the wealthy and then blame it on the other political party because they didn't cut taxes hard enough, and have people gossip about you on the future's equivalent to twitter. You know, the same thing that happens even to real-life heroes. I know that this game is, by nature, fantastical in many ways as the game obeys rules more akin to an action movie than that of reality (characters of about 6th level start to transcend the human experience but even 5th level and lower characters get things like action points.

I tend to run very by-the-lines games with a minimal amount of house rules and I don't like rules that allow some characters to simply be better through chance (despite what actually happens in real life). This means I tend to prefer point buy and 'taking average'. Expect to generate characters based on 25 point buy and "take" 5 on the 2d4 starting wealth roll. Don't yet actually start making characters until I actually make the character generation and house rules file to describe these things in more detail. I may allow rolled stats, though some character creation options won't be available for reasons that will be clear later.

I currently expect to make house rules to alter the rules for action points (the largest change, most likely) and the limitations on cyber-implants. There will be more houserules but those are the largest ones affecting gameplay.

That's all for now. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

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