Matrix Supplement In The Works!

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I am currently working on a Matrix Supplement for D20/3E. It will contain new feats, skills, classes, prestige classes and much more. As well as stats for Agents, The Twins, Neo ETC. It will also function as a Champaign world book with everything you need to play in The Matrix.

Questions? Comments?

 

Tsk Tsk It's only for personal use... The only reason I posted this is for help in the process of making it.

 

Seems silly to me. How do you make stats for an Agent, for example? They are unkillable, right? Except for The One, which kinda means that the whole campaign's kinda centered around one person.

 

“Seems silly to me. How do you make stats for an Agent, for example?”

You make them superbly strong so that your players will not fight them they will run like little girls from them!

“They are unkillable, right? Except for The One, which kinda means that the whole campaign's kinda centered around one person.”

Not really the pcs don’t HAVE to fight agents they can fight regular people who haven’t been freed yet such as cops and the like.

The pcs can never get as good as neo or an agent but they can still have a good amount of fun flipping off walls and kicking butt.

 

In other words, it's d20, except there are things in the movie that you can't be and things in the movie that you can't kill. Fun.

 

Have you heard of the Enter the Matrix Console game? Playing d20 would be similar to that because you’re not playing as Neo, Trintiy, ETC you’re playing as other people we don't get to see and exploring other areas of the story line. And if you wanted you could let your pcs play Neo and co. And the pcs can "kill" agents at high levels IE trinity popping a cap in the agent's head in the film. but they shouldn't be allowed to take one head on or decode one.

[ April 30, 2003, 22:10: Message edited by: Exiled Tainted Love ]

 

Well, I plan to play it, but more for a cheap thrill It is fun to do some of the wall flipping, law defing action, but because of the serious limitations, there isn't much point of making it the focus of my rpging.

 

If I were you I wouldn't base it on D&D. You'd have to totaly redo most of it as it is made for medieval fantasy, not with guns, cars and übertech.

 

After your "feedback" I have decided to make a few changes.

Players can now become as powerful as neo.
Players can now take agents head on at their own risk.

So in other words players can become super bad-ass take on 50 agents so on and so forth. However I am planning to have agents ability scores in the 40’s so unless your super bad you probably won’t want to take one on.

Aikanaro… I’ve looked at other systems but none of them seemed to work as well D20 has feats and such which make things far easier.

 

[EDIT: In reponse to Aikanaro:]

Actually, such a module doesn't belong based on D&D (although this section is probably the most appropriate). It's based on d20, which is more or less a universal system that can be applied to D&D, Star Wars, Call of Cthulu, etc.

[EDIT:] All stats in the 40s? Yikes. I mean, that's like, well, yikes. Yikes.

[ May 02, 2003, 22:37: Message edited by: C'Jakob ]

 

Exactly, D20 seemsed to be the best system for the task. And this is really the only place to post it.

 

Ya, 40 is like gold dragons and stuff. Not only that, if you only get 1 point every 4 levels, and you'll start at around 15, then how are you ever going to get to be able to challenge an agent. Getting to level 100 would be pretty pointless.......

 

You thinks that yikes? ha ha Neo will have 50's...Plus a boatload of new feats.

 

Okay, then. Double yikes.

You do realize that 50 is somewhere in the domains of gods (in D&D), right? And that's a really good stat even for a god. Someone like Kord (god of Strength) has 50 in that stat. Fifty is a lot.

Think of it this way: Neo vs. Agent.

1. They roll for initiative.

2a. Neo wins initiative. Given Neo's very powerful stats, he wipes the floor with the agent in his turn.

2b. Agent wins initiative. Given the Agen's very powerful stats, he wipes the floor with Neo in his turn.

This is pretty much the complaint by players who've played Epic Games. Things become issues of initiative.

Of course, you could add other things to balance it out, but I suspect it'll simply be as normal D&D, except that the results are multiplied by twenty or so.

 

I see your point. But Neo will have several feats to compensate for this. The reason for the 50's is because he is the ONE in the trailer he takes out 20 agents I mean come on that has to warrant a 50.

 

Psh. I'd just give him some spell-like/supernatural ability that comes along with being the One. Something like touching a Agent forces it to make a save (say, DC 35) or explode.

Just a thought.

 

Nice idea I think I’ll do that. The other thing was letting him have a feat like deflect arrow except with bullets the only difference would be he could do it for each ranged attack that hits him. And he could also use it in close combat.

Takes note to put C'Jakob in the credits.

 

To give you another idea, I would simply add a huge deflection bonus to Neo's AC, and/or give him some like an Entropic Shield (I think that's the word) effect, except the miss chance is considerably higher.

I strongly suggest a "the One" template, although the CR would probably increase by dozens.

 

Good one I’ll test both options and see which works best. Another idea I had was if the enemy misses by a certain amount neo get's to strike back i.e. Agent misses neo strikes him even though it's not neo's turn.