Dias Ex Machina Games

Greetings, all! One of the things I loved about d20 Modern was the ability to have moreaus, essentially either humans with animal DNA, or animals turned humanoid and sapient. As such. Also, one of my favorite series is S. Andrew Swann's Moreau trilogy. In the first book, Forests of the Night, the lead character is a private eye....who is 8 feet tall, has a 14.5mm hand gun, and is a Tiger moreau. I find the possibility of playing something that is human, yet animal, and doesn't fit in both worlds to be an intriguing thought.

So, will Moreaus be a PC race in UltraModern? If not, will there be a release at a later date that does allow them?

Ultramodern4, being a universal system, has no races at all. But don't let that stop you from making them yourself.

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com

so i can make a kolbold john woo style deadeye out for revenge

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every thing is better with dinosaurs. scifi, fantasy, horror, supers, westerns. it doesnt matter if it makes sence or not its just awesome seeing peoples faces when you place that t-rex modle on the table.

I would be upset if you didn't...

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com

Looking at Amathyst, a Kodiak might make a good version of a Bear Moreau.

Now, do the character creation rules in UM assume that the user is a human? and thus, 2 feats at 1st level, etc?

No...it assumes nothing. I mean normally, you WOULD use human, but the rules don't break if you use anything else.

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com

Awhile back I started trying my hand at drafting a CP4e game. I got as far as races and classes. For "races" I used human, and then genejobs, cyborgs and animal-modded people were the equivalent of races, to more easily allow for building in those directions. Fell apart trying to get the hacking in play tho. The hackers made sense as a controller, but it seemed like it was going to be more work than fun to draft up, so it went on the shelf. Haven't picked up 'Spasta yet to get inspiration from (or to use outright for that matter). No takers on the Dark Future in my group, outside of the occasional SR game, that is.

I don't know when NeuroSpasta will come out as art and layout are very unpredictable elements. It could be November or next March for all I know. It does offer four new races based on the level of transhumanism. One is a home grown "True-Born", one is a genetically modified "Nugenic", one is the full body "Prosthetic" leaving the last the synthetic "Virtuant". Hacking is based on viruses, programs, and ability checks. It doesn't use a grid board...because that's old school cyberpunk.

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com