Hey all, i'm recently running a one time adventure combining Star Wars and 3.5. A dark jedi and a lich have begrudgingly teamed up to unlock the secrets of a dark artifact. The pc's have two characters (one from each system) running independently from each other. The actions in the one group affect the situations of the other and vice versa. The finally involves the players to choose their favorite character and confront the two villains as the climax.
Both games are made by Wizards and it is pretty easily adaptable. But my question is there any history of crossing systems in publication? Or for those who have done it privately what did you all do? What were the biggest pitfalls? I'm actually interested in anything people have to say about pairing the greatest R.P.G. of D&D with other systems. Thanks.
( i peed my pants a little when the p.c. wizard shrunk one of the AT-ST's legs and when the heroic jedi had some lightsabery goodness through hordes of undead....ahh sweet nerd worlds colliding.)
A few years ago, I ran a campaign based solely to test the limits of the 3.0 D&D system. This was back when SW (Star Wars) just got released for d20 gaming. As part of my quest to test the merits, flaws, and boundaries of the system, I decided to allow my players to select almost any bipedal life-form (within reasons) and use almost any class from standard D&D, SW, and Wheel of Time (except for the channeler classes, which I was 100% certain that they would break the game).
Bottom Line: Jedi pcs were able to do far more than regular pcs and in combat they were brutual with those lightsabers as they ignore hardness and DR (since energy-based attacks ignore DR). Let me point out a few examples of the jedi pcs doing something incredible. (1) Using Move Object to lift a Maur demon (which is Huge-sized) high in the air before slamming it back into the ground; (2) Using a lightsaber to carve off the top of a wizard's tower (the lightsaber had the extended length of 10 ft.) so the group would be able to bypass most of the tower's defences and face the wizard right away; and (3) they were able convince criminals to confess their crimes (which in itself is not really a nice thing to do since you're robbing the individual of free will) with the use of Alter Mind.
In fact, a jedi with Alter Mind is probably going to get away with a lot of stuff. "You will give me 80% discount on all of your items in stock." If the merchant fails his Will save, he'd gladly do it and sees no problem in it afterwards. And the DC is based on how well the jedi rolled his Alter Mind check.
Yeah, back then I was a mere novice as a DM. 4 years later, I'm substantially better as a DM thanks to my players who consistently try to find new ways of utilizing both new and old spells, feats, skills, and abilities. Without a doubt, trying to run a campaign with multiple aspects/rules from vastly different campaign settings can be very hard and very trying on a DM's patience and innovative skills.
But truth be told, I enjoyed it a lot and was really pleased with the end results. The biggest pleasure I got was watching the paladin/jedi go into the forest to cut a few trees for the villagers so they could built new homes with the lumber. With his lightsaber and Move Object skill, in a single day, more houses and fences were being built and set up than a crew of 20 workers could ever hope to accomplish. :) Doesn't sound grand but the villagers were definitely happy and the guy didn't need to kill a lich to make them happy.
you guys are 40 year old nerds who are still afraid of girl cooties\
you guys are 40 year old nerds who are still afraid of girl cooties\
Most 40 year old nerds I've encountered are married.
you guys are 40 year old nerds who are still afraid of girl cooties\
Ironically enough, I'm a guy in his 20's who still finds the time to go clubbing with single women despite (a) my job's long hours, and (b) my geek hobbies. Never really had any problems with "girl cooties," whatever those are. Heard about them a lot, never seen 'em, sort of like the mythical gnomes who cleans and repairs all the shoes in a shoe store every night after closing hours.
Of course, your post does beg the question: "Is he afraid of girl cooties or 40-year old nerds?" The answer: It doesn't really matter as it has no bearing whatsoever on the topic of this thread. Stay on topic, junior.