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From publisher blurb:
Push your body past all known limits, past common sense and past fear and mediocrity. This is a book about athletes, physical prodigies and daredevils of all kinds. It’s about everyone who makes a living off sweat and adrenaline, who is famous for their physical capabilities. It’s about extreme sports and Sanctuary: City of Secrets cool, about surfing and skating, and using your sports skills to fight crime. Presented here are several new uses for old skills, new twists on familiar rules that bring X-Games style action to the game table. New advanced classes are presented, all amazing physical specimens, and each a different type of player in the Hollywood game. Ever wanted to play an NFL champion turned secret agent, a combat focused movie stuntman or a skateboarding martial artist? Now you can. The new rules created in this sourcebook are intended to be compatible with the standard rules for D20 Modern, and you can easily integrate them in to your local game. In this Sourcebook there are:
Over 20 All New Feats including Airborne Sniper, Board Shield, Retained Council, Tagger and Wall Grind.
New rules for Skydiving and HALO Drops
New rules for Surfing and Snowboarding
Over 20 pieces of equipment including Dive Watch, Special Ops Parachute and Wipeout Skateboard
3 All New Advanced Classes: Champion, Skater Royalty and Stunt Double
4 All New Intermediary Classes: Blogger, Idle Rich, Porn Star and Punk Idol
This 24 page PDF is just the sort of thing needed for GMs to add depth to any great d20 Modern campaign world, including Haven: City of Violence and Sanctuary: City of Secrets.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Uploading — An action related to uploading a program of a specific color.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- So, we're going to learn some of the tricks, some of the secrets, some of the perhaps little skills of playing this game well that you may not have picked up um as you've been learning the game.
- It's not always as straightforward.
- Always look for opportunities to exploit the idea of overpaying.
- Reveal effects are some of the most powerful effects in the game.
- One of the hardest things to do in Decas is defeat a white guardian.
- So, creating guardians to get sparks back in the supply if you're facing something like spider, which is probably the first time you might think about doing this.
- Magnetic pulse is a really neat card.
- Once you've played your first game and you're familiar with the rules, have a look through the appendices.
- So, when you're setting up, setting up in this game is part of the game.