#CharacterCreationChallenge Day 7: Alternity
#Alternity is an artifact of the fall of TSR, coming out in 1998 as the company was being taken over by WotC and like many other product was discontinued soon after.
Which is a shame, as it had some interesting ideas, such as a resolution mechanics using a d20 plus a variable situational die that I don't think I've seen used anywhere else.
I also quite liked the Star*Drive setting, so we're making a character for that today.
In the Star*Drive setting, the Sesheyans are an alien species whose homeworld is located inside the borders of the insidious stellar nation VoidCorp, which exploits them as cheap labour. A few Sesheyans, known as Windspirits, manage to escape VoidCorp and live in freedom, although also as fugitives from the VoidCorp agents who seek to recapture them. The pilot Calai Angh'Tokai is one such Windspirit.
@AndreasKjeldsen Was not really a fan of the Alternity system itself. But Dark*Matter and Star*Drive were neat settings, and I loved some of the species you could play, like these guys.
Sounds weird to say given the current OGL crisis, but I always used to wish they had re-released the Alterniry content as d20 Modern material during the D&D 3E era.
#RPG #Alternity #d20 #OGL #3E
@PTR_K Well, they're revisiting many of the old setting these days, so it might still happen. (I don't think it'll happen.)
@AndreasKjeldsen Yah. I reckon you are right.