Re: [HOE] Hell on Earth d20

["Jason Panella" <saeder_krupp@hotmail.com>]

>I'm down at my local hobby shop, just looking around to see if anything 
>catches my interest. Nothing jumps out at me, so I head for the door, but 
>the lady who runs the place points at a stack of stuff she just got in 
>sitting on the counter. I look through the stack and find the core book for 
>Fading Suns in the d20 system. Fading Suns has always interested me, and 
>I've been looking for some reading material anyway, so I slap down the 
>money and walk out with a brand new book.


That's out? News to me. Fading Suns is a great game.

>Now to the point:  I've gotten through most of the book in the day since I 
>got it, and I find myself wanting the rest of the Fading Suns books. Not 
>the d20 sourcebooks that are forthcoming, but the sourcebooks that are 
>already out. This works out to be a very good thing for Fading Suns' 
>company, don't you think? And if it works that way for Pinnacle, too... 
>then all the better.

I got to work a little for the guys at Holistic this summer at 
Origins...Chris Weiss thinks Shane and the crew are great guys and is glad 
to see them rebounding.

>More importantly, it's not like game systems are all converting entirely 
>over to d20. All the companies are just using this as an opportunity to 
>make a little extra money by selling books to people who might not 
>otherwise find their games accessible.
>

While I'm not a fan of the D20 system, I still think Weird Wars is cool and 
it IS a good way to draw people into the original systems. At least I think 
it is.

JP

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