Genre Books

Genre Books for D&D Next:

These are all 100% compatible with fantasy D&D Next rules and settings. A high fantasy D&D character could hop worlds and multiclass in Modern and Future classes: Fighter 3/Gunslinger 3/Starpilot 3.

The Genre Books series covers all:

• • The d20 Modern, d20 Future, and d20 Past campaign models

  • The d20 mini-games from Polyhedron magazine

  • The Alternity campaign settings

  • The Amazing Engine campaign settings.

  • The settings of the non-medieval TSR mini-games

  • The other TSR/WotC rpgs, such as Boot Hill and Top Secret

Plus Campaign Models from existing D&D Worlds, showing how these Genres can be played in a Fantasy campaign.

Whereas the Culture Books cover the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and pre-Industrial Enlightenment cultures, along with the "timeless" Indigenous cultures, the Genre Books cover post-Enlightenment fictional genres, from the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution, onward.

D&D Modern

• • Campaign Models:

    • Urban Arcana (the default timeline of D&D Earth)

  • Dark•Matter

  • Shadow Chasers

  • Agents of PSI

  • Genetech

    • Magitech setting from Amazing Engine.

  • Greyhawk 2000

  • Besides Greyhawk 2000, modern versions of all published D&D Worlds, with technology and cultural level equivalent to present-day 2012. For those Worlds which feature Real World correlations, keep it straightforward (e.g. Shou Lung = China) so that it's easy to use D&D Earth adventures and resources (e.g. culture books).

    • "Modern Realms": something like: Faerunian Union, United Realms of Anchorome (URA), People's Republic of Shou Lung, etc.

    • "Modern Eberron"

    • "Modern Athas"

    • "Modern Aebrynis"

    • "Modern Mystara". something like: The Known Union, the United Coast of the Southold (UCS).

    • "Modern Krynn"

    • "Modern Nerath"

D&D Pulp

• • Campaign Models:

    • Pulp Heroes d20 mini-game, later a campaign model for d20 Past

    • The Seedy Streets of Northport, setting for Pulp Heroes in Polyhedron Magazine

    • Iron Lords of Jupiter from Polyhedron

    • Shadow Stalkers from d20 Past

  • Masque of the Red Death

    • V is for Victory from d20 Modern

    • For Faerie, Queen, and Country from Amazing Engine

  • Gangbusters

    • Dawn Patrol (there was D&D/Dawn Patrol crossover in Frank Mentzer's AC4: The Book of Marvellous Magic)

    • Eberron campaign models, for using Pulp themes in a medieval fantasy setting

  • Better than Thrilling Tales. Maybe collaborate with GM Skarka.

D&D Supers

• • Campaign Models (the Supers timeline of D&D Earth is fictional within the Urban Arcana timeline. The Supers campaign models are comic book stories within the Urban Arcana campaign model):

    • Golden Age supers in D&D Earth

    • Silver Age supers in D&D Earth

    • Bronze Age supers in D&D Earth

    • Modern Age supers in D&D Earth

    • Red Curse of Mystara (Red Steel/Savage Coast) designed as superpowers

  • Better than MnM. A tough act to follow. Maybe collaborate with Steven Kenson.

D&D Anime

• • Campaign Models for all the different anime subgenres

  • Better than BESM

D&D Mecha

• • Campaign Models:

    • Mecha Crusade from d20 Future

    • Earthshakers from Mystara

  • Better than Battletech and d20 Mecha by Guardians of Order

D&D Western

• • Campaign Models:

  • Boot Hill

    • Cimarron County in Mystara (Red Steel/Savage Coast)

    • Remember the Alamo from the TSR mini-game

    • 5e stats for Murlynd

  • Better than Sidewinder, Deadlands, and Aces & Eights

D&D Pirates

• • Also serves as "Caribbean Adventures" culture book for Afro-Caribbean, Taino, and Carib Indian cultures.

  • Campaign Models:

    • Pirates of the Sea of Fallen Stars in Toril

    • Merry Pirates of the Hollow World

    • Nuari of the Pearl Islands of Mystara (Afro-Caribbeans)

    • Caymen (Carib Indians) from AC2: Combat Shield and Mini-Adventure

  • Better than Skull & Bones, Buccaneers & Bokor d20 magazine, and 7th Sea: Swashbuckling Adventures

D&D Spies

• • Campaign Models:

  • Top Secret

    • Glantrian Diplomatic Corps from Mystara

  • Better than Spycraft

D&D Comedy

• • Compile the silliest D&D monsters, magic items, spells, and so forth.

  • The little-known Goldshitter from a Basic D&D Hebrew-language adventure module, might be the most silly monster in all the D&D Worlds.

  • Stats for the Dread Gazebo.

  • Resources:

    • "The Stupidest D&D Monsters" website and the April Fools Dragon magazine issues.

    • AC11, The Book of Wondrous Inventions with D&D versions of boomboxes, vending machines, etc.

    • 1e Jester NPC class and its support articles in Dragon magazine

    • 2e Jester kit for the Bard.

  • Includes a new 5e Jester class or theme

  • Also comedic settings for D&D Modern/Future/Past campaigns.

  • Campaign Models:

    • Hi-Jinx from d20 Modern

    • Thunderball Rally from d20 Modern

    • Tabloid! from Amazing Engine

    • They've Invaded Pleasantville and Icebergs TSR mini-games. The funny thing about Icebergs is that TSR made such a weird little game.

    • Mystara's Kingdom of Ierendi as portrayed as the Magnum P.I. television show, and the Broken Lands as portrayed in GAZ10: Orcs of Thar and the OrcWars! game

    • The Whamite Isles in the Forgotten Realms from The Great Khan Game.

    • The alternate "joke-version" of Castle Greyhawk from WG7 . This is an alternate timeline of Oerth--"Joerth"?

    • Campaign Models for the comics featured in Dragon Magazine over the years: Wormy, SnarfQuest, Yamara, Knights of the Dinner Table, Nodwick, Dork Tower, and The Order of the Stick

    • Include Campaign Models for all the Aldrazar settings which are based on WotC IP: GreyHack, HackJammer, HackWurld of Mystaros, Robinloft, and the Fading Realms

  • Better than HackMaster Basic, Paranoia, Tales from the Floating Vagabond "ludicrous sci-fi" rpg, Green Ronin's Damnation Decade, and SJG's Toon and Munchkin rpgs

D&D Sci-Fi

• • Campaign Models:

    • Star Frontiers (also encompassing Star Law campaign model from d20 Future)

  • Star*Drive

    • Bughunters from Amazing Engine and d20 Future

    • From the Dark Heart of Space from d20 Future

    • The Galactos Barrier from Amazing Engine

    • Once and Future King from Amazing Engine

    • Revolt on Antares from Tom Moldvay's TSR mini-game

    • Attack Force TSR mini-game. Novaship and Arcturus

    • Home setting of the spaceship from Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

    • Galactic Federation from Mystara (essentially D&D Star Trek)

  • Better than Traveller

D&D Cyberscape

• Campaign Models:

  • • CyberRave from d20 Cyberscape

    • Deathnet d20 mini-game

    • Kromosome from Amazing Engine (?)

D&D Apocalypse

• • Campaign Models:

  • Gamma World (including Omega World)

  • The Wasteland from d20 Future

  • Atomic Sunrise from d20 Apocalypse

  • Earth Inherited from d20 Apocalypse

  • Plague World from d20 Apocalypse

  • Campaign Models set in the aftermath of the historic apocalypses of the D&D Worlds:

    • The Rain of Colorless Fire from Greyhawk

    • The Great Rain of Fire from Mystara and Blackmoor

    • The Cataclysm from Dragonlance

    • The Apocalypse Stone from AD&D 2e

  • Better than Darwin's World.

D&D Timetravel

• • Supports not only timetravel, but all dimension-hopping inter-genre campaigns

  • Classes: Chronomancer, Temporal Champion, Temporal Raider, Dimensional Ranger

  • Resource: "Chronomancy and the Multiverse" by Roger Moore. Describes how time-travel applies to each D&D World.

  • Campaign Models:

    • Mystara: The Nexus from CM6: Where Chaos Reigns ; perhaps an Oard PC race, à la Star Trek's "I, Borg" episode.

    • Tales from the Comeback Inn, bringing Blackmoor to any campaign

    • The River of Time: time-travel in Krynn

    • Dimension X from d20 Future

    • Tangents from Alternity

Others:

• • Perhaps D&D Gaslamp (Victorian and Edwardian fantasy, which would include Masque of the Red Death, Shadow Stalkers, and For Faerie, Queen, and Country; otherwise include in D&D Pulp)

  • Perhaps D&D Steampunk

  • D&D Storybook, which would feature rules modules which support genres of fantasy which are more story-oriented, with little to no combat. The classes would be "story roles" instead of "combat roles". But they'd still be mechanically compatible with core D&D. D&D Storybook would feature campaign models which tell stories like Narnia, Wizard of Oz, Jim Henson's Labyrinth and Dark Crystal, and The Neverending Story. These might even be "D&D Earth" versions of some of those copyrighted worlds--for example, a quasi-Narnian campaign setting written by a "D&D Earth version" of C.S. Lewis who exists in the Urban Arcana timeline. In Urban Arcana, these are novels. Alice's Wonderland, as seen in EX1: Dungeonland and EX2: The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror, could be a campaign model.