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* ''d20 Future'':

** '''Bughunters:''' A [[Bug War]] setting in which you're a genetically engineered [[Space Marine]] clone grunt sent to kill some [[Big Creepy Crawlies]]. Adapted from TSR's early-'90s RPG ''[[Amazing Engine]]''.

** '''Bughunters:''' A [[Bug War]] setting in which you're a genetically engineered [[Space Marine]] clone grunt sent to kill some [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]. Adapted from TSR's early-'90s RPG ''[[Amazing Engine]]''.

** '''Dimension X:''' You work for an organization charged with monitoring various [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]], searching for a way to stem the tide of an approaching [[Apocalypse How|Armageddon]] that's destroying [[The Multiverse]] one dimension at a time.

** '''From the Dark Heart of Space:''' [[Cosmic Horror]] [[Recycled in Space|in the depths of the cosmos]]. [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] lurk in the space between stars and [[The Corruption|corrupt average humans]] to use as their tools.

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In addition to the books listed above, a few other campaign models were suggested for ''d20 Modern'', mostly in the pages of ''Polyhedron'' magazine:

* '''Thunderball Rally''': Inspired by '70s and '80s action [[Road Movie|Road Movies]] like ''[[Smokey and ~~The~~ Bandit]]'' and ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'', the players are participants in a huge, illegal, and ''extremely'' lucrative cross-American road race. It was published in ''Polyhedron'' #152 and, as a joke, had rules for creating [[Every Which Way But Loose|orangutan]] player characters.

* '''Thunderball Rally''': Inspired by '70s and '80s action [[Road Movie|Road Movies]] like ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' and ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'', the players are participants in a huge, illegal, and ''extremely'' lucrative cross-American road race. It was published in ''Polyhedron'' #152 and, as a joke, had rules for creating [[Every Which Way But Loose|orangutan]] player characters.

* '''Omega World''': A post-apocalyptic world gone mad, filled with human explorers and deadly mutants. Inspired by the classic ''[[~~Gamma World (Tabletop Game)|~~Gamma World]]'' RPG. Published in ''Polyhedron'' #153 and incorporated into ''d20 Apocalypse''.

* '''Omega World''': A post-apocalyptic world gone mad, filled with human explorers and deadly mutants. Inspired by the classic ''[[Gamma World]]'' RPG. Published in ''Polyhedron'' #153 and incorporated into ''d20 Apocalypse''.

* '''V for Victory''': Hard-bitten heroes taking on the Nazi menace. A game of [[World War II]] combat published in ''Polyhedron'' #156, later incorporated into ''d20 Past''.

* '''HiJinx''': Published in ''Polyhedron'' #158, this scenario takes the "kids in a rock band" formula of '70s and '80s cartoons (''[[Josie and ~~The~~ ~~Pussycats~~]]'', ''[[Jem and The Holograms]]'', etc.) and throws in a healthy dose of turn-of-the-millennium self-awareness and irony. Players race to go platinum while getting into wacky misadventures with mobsters, robots, and aliens.

* '''HiJinx''': Published in ''Polyhedron'' #158, this scenario takes the "kids in a rock band" formula of '70s and '80s cartoons (''[[Josie and the Pussy Cats]]'', ''[[Jem and The Holograms]]'', etc.) and throws in a healthy dose of turn-of-the-millennium self-awareness and irony. Players race to go platinum while getting into wacky misadventures with mobsters, robots, and aliens.

* '''Iron Lords of Jupiter''': Mixing elements of ''d20 Future'' and ''d20 Past'', this setting draws on pulp [[Planetary Romance]] stories like ''[[John Carter of Mars]]''. It turns out that Jupiter actually has a solid surface under all those clouds (and miraculously has an oxygen-rich atmosphere and gravity low enough for humans to survive there) and is home to numerous alien races with Bronze Age technology. The players may be humans shipwrecked on the planet or members of the local civilizations. Published in ''Polyhedron'' #160.

* '''d20 Spectaculars''': A book planned to be published in 2006, ''d20 Spectaculars'' would have given rules for playing superheroes, but it was canceled and never saw the light of day. It may have been because ''d20 Modern'''s sales were slipping, because they decided supers didn't fit with the rest of the line, or because ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' already provided a d20 superhero game that was compatible with ''d20 Modern'' with a little rules-tweaking. The start of the work on [[Dungeons and Dragons|4th Edition]] might have had something to do with it, too.

* '''[[Star Fleet Battles|Prime Directive]]''': Based on the ''Starfleet Battles'' universe (a licenced alternate [[~~Star Trek (Franchise)|~~Star Trek]] universe).

* '''[[Star Fleet Battles|Prime Directive]]''': Based on the ''Starfleet Battles'' universe (a licenced alternate [[Star Trek]] universe).

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* [[Alien Invasion]]: In the backstory of ''Plague World''. It ended badly for everyone, including the aliens.

* [[Bug War]]: In ''Bughunters''.

* [[Caught Up in ~~The~~ Rapture]]: Happened to most of humanity in ''Earth Inherited'', but with a twist (see above).

* [[Caught Up in the Rapture]]: Happened to most of humanity in ''Earth Inherited'', but with a twist (see above).

* [[Cloning Blues]]: In ''Genetech''.

* [[Cool Starship]]

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* [[The Masquerade]]: A central conceit in both ''Shadow Chasers'' and ''Urban Arcana''. The main difference is that in the former, the PCs are normal humans outside the masquerade and looking in, while in the latter, they are hidden magical creatures themselves or their allies.

* [[The Multiverse]]: In ''Dimension X''.

* [[Mutants]]: In ''[[Gamma World ~~(Tabletop Game)~~|Omega World]]''.

* [[Mutants]]: In ''[[Gamma World|Omega World]]''.

* [[Nanomachines]]

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Inevitable when mixing [[Sourcebook|Sourcebooks]].