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Odyssey Prime

A dual-stat d20 Modern/Unisystem game of exploration

Requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons(R) Player's Handbook, Third Edition, or

d20 Modern, published by Wizards of the Coast(R)

CREDITS

Mission Control (Publishers): Bizzaro Games & Eden Studios

Operations Coordinator (Game Concept, Design): Tony Lee

Operations Engineer (d20 Modern Design): Steven Trustrum

Communications Director (Development, Design, Editing): Christina Stiles

Operations Technician (Additional Design): Jim Montgomery

Chief of Operations: M. Alexander Jurkat

Translation Engineer (UniSystem Conversion): Daniel Davis

Procedure Engineer (Unisystem Rules): C. J. Carella

Chief of Optical Logistics (Layout, Graphics): George Vasilakos

Visual Profile Specialists (Illustrations):

Insignia Engineer (Cover): William McAusland

Insignia Technician (Original Cover Design): David K. Wong

Odyssey Teams (Playtesting): Michael J. Brisbois, David Carroll, Todd Cash, Daniel

Davis, Katrina Fairchild, Jeff Fournier, D.J., Jerome Ingall, Doug Kilmer, Jeff Kiser, Dan

Lambert, Curtis Lanford, Brian Larbig, Tony Law, Stephen B. Lombardo, Colin

McGaffrey, Jim Montgomery, Joe O’Brien, Jeremy Patterson, Andy Peregrine, John

Polack, Tammey Reed, Wayne Shaw, Gaylene Sutton-Monk, Ryan Walsh

Support Staff (Tony’s Special Thanks): Mario Lee “Little Mountain” Bansen, Gary &

Mary Bernard, Tim Brown, Jamie Chambers, Sean Everette, Steve Lee, NGO (New

Gamers’ Order), Don Perrin, Jim Ward, Margaret Weis, Ken Whitman

Table of Contents

Chapter One: The Sky is Falling!

Chapter Two: The Odyssey Begins

Chapter Three: Priming Up

Chapter Four: Outfitting a Team

Chapter Five: The Last Line of Survival

Chapter Six: The Journey of a Thousand Worlds

Chapter Seven: The Unisystem Odyssey

‘D20 System’ and the ‘D20 System’ logo are Trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast

and are used according to the terms of the D20 System License version 3.0. A copy of

this License can be found at www.wizards.com/d20.

Dungeons & Dragons(R) and Wizards of the Coast(R) are Registered Trademarks of

Wizards of the Coast, and are used with permission.

<<two-page spread of armed Od Team members in armored-vest-covered jumpsuits

emerging from the gate into an ice-covered, mountainous world. One of their members is

already being attacked by a four-armed yeti-like creature, upon which the group is

firing.>>

Chapter One: The Sky Is Falling! (14)

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About 50 asteroids are known to intersect Earth’s orbit…

<<two-page spread graphics of mock articles and press clippings of information, stats,

predictions and consequences for asteroids impacting Earth, interspersed with tidbids of

dimensional travel, all superimposed on a collage of Doomsday Meteor-

disasters/bombardments in background>>

[begin mock fiction press clippings]

“In this century, there is a great chance that the Earth will collide with an asteroid!”

“An Apollo asteroid, now known as Ascelpius 4581, passed within 800,000 km (500,000

miles) of Earth in 1989-the closest approach of a large asteroid since Hermes in 1937…”

“Astronomers are carefully monitoring a newly discovered 1.2-mile-wide asteroid to

determine whether it is on a collision course with Earth. Initial calculations indicate there

is a chance the asteroid-known as 2002 NT7-will hit the Earth on Feb. 1, 2019.

Astronomers have rated the object’s threat level 0.06 on the so-called Palermo technical

scale, making NT7 the first object given a positive value. From its brightness,

astronomers estimate NT7 is about two kilometers wide, large enough to cause continent-

wide devastation on Earth.”

“In June, 2002, an asteroid the size of a soccer field missed the Earth by 75,000 miles-less

than one-third of the distance to the moon-in one of the closest known approaches by

objects of its size. Scientists speculate that, had the asteroid hit a populated area, it would

have released as much energy as a large nuclear weapon.”

“Approximately 65 million years ago, an asteroid with a 10-mile diameter crashed into

the Tucatan Peninsula in Mexico, annihilating 95% of life on Earth. At sunrise on June

30, 1908, an asteroid with a ¼-mile diameter struck the area near the Tunguska River in

Siberia with the equivalent force of a modern H-Bomb…”

“…Meteors up to 100 tons bore penetration funnels in the ground upon impact. Those

larger than 100 tons generally explode upon impact. If a one-mile wide asteroid actually

hits Earth, it would kill 30% of the population.”

“The impact of a 35-mile wide, 15-mile long asteroid would create a 10-mile high tidal

wave, a crater the size of Europe, enough dust to block out the sun for years, and an

explosion which would level every city on our planet.”

“…Should an asteroid the size of XF11 hit the planet, it would be the equivalent to 2

million Hiroshima bombs or 320,000 megatons of dynamite. It would create a crater 20

miles in diameter, vaporize any living creature within a hundred-mile radius of the

collision site, and propel molten rocks up to hundreds of miles away…”

“Wormholes, in contrast to black holes, do not have a ‘bottom’ to engulf their travelers

whole. Instead, they have two ‘mouths’ connected by a ‘throat’ and can be used as a

‘cosmic shortcut’…”

“Using our Earth as a single starting point, think of every alternate timeline possible from

that point. Now imagine every single one of these alternate timelines with even more

alternate timelines breaking off from them… ad infinitum. What you end up with is an

ever-expanding cosmic ball of possibilities…”

[end mock fiction press clippings]

An asteroid IS headed too close to Earth.

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[begin boxed classified document]

Clearance: Umbra

Joint Special Advisory Committee

NSC, NASA, FEMA

to: Eyes Only

re: Odyssey Prime

We regret to inform all that as of May 20 th , 2002, the threat of asteroid RX338, a.k.a.

Doomsday, is confirmed, imminent, and possibly unavoidable.

While we fully intend to research and develop all means at our disposal to combat this

crisis, the Committee is aware of technology in our possession that is capable of

extradimensional transportation. This item in question was salvaged in near-perfect

condition from an inoperable facsimile of alien origin. We have studied the viability of

colonizing other worlds, and, in light of the aforementioned catastrophe, have decided to

proceed with the operation, codename Project Odyssey, to relocate selected citizens and

allies in the event all our other solutions fail.

It is our unreserved recommendation to commence Project Odyssey at the earliest

opportunity. Time is of the essence.

[end boxed classified document text]

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