Celluloid Bikers Is Friday's Theme Friday, August 01, 2008

Damnation Decade gets a nice review at Ain't It Cool News:

D20 Damnation Decade

Okay, I am NOT a fan of the d20 Modern system. Never have been. As much as I love the d20 system for all my fantasy needs – the modern version of the game always felt forced and required too much tweaking to feel anywhere near right. I’ve heard of some folks using it to create some cool Zombie survival horror RPGs, but I always shrugged since there are like 12 of those on shelves already. So when I say I found a reason to play d20 Modern…

I normally wouldn’t write about a 2 year old supplement, but when the AICN reader
who wrote the book asked me to take a look at it, his pitch got me pretty damned interested. He found a way to make the campy nature of the d20M system work in its favor. He made a campy game. Set at the end of the world…in the 1970’s. Inspired by the 1970’s that makes AICN what it is, the conventions here won’t sound foreign to any of you readers at all. Nazi clones from Brazil, UFOs, Sasquatch, Government spooks, Albino Zombie/Vampires, psychic demons, androids, mad doctors, an ass kicking Elvis, pissed off nature, the Russians and the devil himself Richard Nixon. If it appeared in 70’s genre films, it appears in this game. All thrown together into one crazy, mind-splintering universe. You play truck drivers, street-smart detectives, kung fu hipsters, roller skating hotties and rollerball players that end up uncovering these vast conspiracies and must fight to save the world from the brink of destruction again and again.

The thing is pretty damned fun, and I had a hell of a time just reading it cover to cover. You can play it dark like Omega Man or The Exorcist or light and fluffy like Paranoia without all the extra lives. If you play d20 Modern, or enjoy modern campaign settings, then as an AICN reader you pretty much owe it to yourself to at least thumb through this one at your FLGS. It’s got a three-page bibliography of the 70’s movies that inspired the book, which is almost entirely comprised of AICN essential viewing. Published by Green Ronin, it is also fully compatible with their TRUE 20 line.

@ 6:06:00 PM,

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