Well as the tite states, its a project I'm working on. It isn't a literal translation by any means, but is heavily drawn from the AP. The idea is based on someone mentioning doing it in Shadowrun, but my searchfu is teh suck and I came up empty handed, so I thought I'd post. To get this started let me give some insight into my ideas for the project to clear some things up.
- I really enjoy CiniUni, and D&D but want to get away from D&D a little since that is all I've been getting to play (hardly a problem :P)
- I REALLY enjoy Post Apocalyptic gaming and yet cannot for the life of me get it together, Fallout 3 has drove me to try and make it work
- I have d20 modern and all relevant books, but somehow everytime I think modern games I don't want anything d20 (Barring Mutanst and Masterminds of course)
- I Dig CotCT as a whole, and think the epic story inside all the stats is timeless and translatable throughout genres, for more examples of other peoples better ideas than mine Immora has a d20 modern conversion going running this baby as a pulp historical game (Cause she's awesome like that)
- and Lastly because I want so badly to run a Post Apocalyptic game, yet have trouble putting together anything that doesn't feel like a dungeon crawl (which I don't want)
Having done all of that on to my ideas for conversion. The most important of my thoughts here (IMO) are how to make the setting mine, yet still capture the rich flavor and machinations of what the awesome authors did. So a brief look at my version versus theres.
- In my version of the post apoc world, Korvosa is New Avalon which was a city state founded by the now defunct Government of New Texas. Following pretty much the same path as the AP in that they are now an independant "country" with President Eodred and his wife the Vice-President (you know how she got that appointment)
- Iloesa is from the Reconstituted States of America to the East, and was the promising daughter of officials there and otherwise is exactly as per the AP
- The shaonti are/were a survivor tribe that lived in the ruins of the former city that New Avalon is now on top of (The City was Dallas)
- The Fangs of Kadzovan (Sp?) are a nanotech virus left over from pre-fall. They are an AI war machine that makes the host into a superhuman assassin, and enhances the host traits. It also somewhat has its own pre-fall agenda that is outdated and is confused. It works basically as does the magic but is scientific in nature.
- The Red Mantis are a Yakuza like organization
- The necromancer is more Dr. Frankenstein than anything
- Zerella is actually going to be an Artificial Intelligence Hologram, programmed by the woman before her death.... no cool harrowdeck or any harrow stuff here at all... pretty much all of that is gone.
- Black Jack is BATMAN!
Those are the thoughts I have right now... will post more and hopefully coherent thoughts as they occur.