Design Custom Drugs in Your d20 Modern Game

Have you ever been playing your favorite modern RPG d20 game and wanted to add the effects of drugs or other pharmaceuticals to your game play but wasn't sure where to start?  Maybe you want a key character to feel the full effects of morphine that he injects into his arm after he got injured?  Maybe you want to simulate a massive drug trade, or even better, design your own hot street drug and make your next million $$ getting suckers hooked.  Or maybe you just want a new drug to roll into your own Spycraft 2.0 campaign setting in whatever capacity you desire.

For you d20 Modern gamers out there, I wrote a small app that uses The Little Black Drug Book as OGL source.  You can make custom pharmaceuticals for your in-game use with the app alone, but you won't get the full explanations without the PDF (it's only $1 from LPJ Design and www.drivethrurpg.com).  I use this PDF and my software when running Spycraft 2.0 campaigns and it works well.

Below (or included on this page) I've included a full ZIP file with setup executable as well as a naked binary (ie just the binary, no zip, no setup, etc.  just run it).  Pick whichever one you're more comfortable with.  I'm not sure why Instructables does this, but it renames the executable into a tmp file.  Right click and save as.... and rename to DrugDesigner.exe (or whatever you want to call it) without the .tmp extension.

Start the next step to see how easy it is!

Step 1 Determine Form

Determine the Delivery Method
The delivery method, or form, is just the physical structure the drug comes in.  Popular forms are gel caplets, tablets, and liquid.  Think about the delivery method as it determines -- in real terms -- how quickly the drug is available (or its metabolite) in the system.
The available delivery methods are:

1. Direct contact
2. Gel caplet
3. Inhaled
4. Liquid
5. Pill
6. Plant
7. Powdered
8. Rock
9. Tablet

These forms are pretty self-explanatory, and again, they are detailed with more attention in the source PDF's mentioned on the front page of this instructable.

Comments

[cypher073]

Fantastic! I'll try this stuff out at my next game! Awesome job, bro, !

[nevdull]

Thanks for the awesome comments!