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The last time WoTC tried to create an RPG in the present day was back during 3e with d20 Modern and Urban Arcana. It has not recreated either one for 5e As for 3pp, I don't know if any of them have tried for a contemporary fantasy for 5e.

If we were going by the definition of the word contemporary (living or occurring at the same time), a contemporary clone of 5e would be something like Tales of the Valiant (Kobold Press) and Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (EN Publishing). Both RPGs use the 5e chassis, but it might better to say...

The Voidrunner's Codex for Level Up has rules for hacking tech and hacking maneuvers in either a contemporary or futuristic setting: https://a5e.tools/rules/hacking https://a5e.tools/rules/hacking-maneuvers Hackers could be a subclass of the Artificer class in a contemporary fantasy setting.

Ditto for the Allison Beckstorm series.

Ditto for Social Interaction and Exploration.

True. Otherwise, the 5e PHB and the 5e DMG would be considered tomes several hundred pages thick. 😛

Mostly in the Eberron and Spelljammer settings.

I doubt that they are all necessary for a contemporary fantasy to work. Plus, they would throw in too much complexity into a game that tries to keep it short and simple.

How many of them are needed to run a contemporary fantasy for 5.5?

Which would have to be tweaked to accommodate magic.

There could be a bit of an arms race between what magic can do, what technology can do, and what both of them could do together in a contemporary setting.

Down below is Laser Llama's take on Dual Wielding. It presents a solution to the whole Bonus action problem typically associated with Dual Wielding. It's sort of like picking up a weapon with the Nick Weapon Mastery property. But instead of getting to use the Bonus Action for another attack, you...

For those who have played or will be playing a martial character with access to a Fighting Style, what would you consider to be your favorite Fighting Style in 5e? Mine would have to be Two-Weapon Fighting (aka Dual Wielding). I have liked it since 3e. It wasn't the amount of damage you could...

Another bookmark to add to my collection of all things A5e. :)

Instantaneous healing keeps the character turnover rate low.

True. Now you are dealing with what's happening in the here and now with a group of individuals, the player characters. If one of them had a background in History and had a penchant of being a know-it-all, then you might get to see a glimpse into their world's history. ;)

Pathfinder 1st edition sort of did this with Golarion's sister planets of Akiton and Castrovel. Akiton was the equivalent of Mars/Barsoom while Castrovel was a jungle world. The Lashunta species in PF1 hailed from Castrovel.

Or leans into presenting the setting from a first-person point of view. To you or me, what matters is what is happening in the here and now, and in our immediate vicinity.

Only from a human perspective. 😛 To an elf or a dwarf, we are still very young.

True, their presence in a setting that resembles ours in almost every way raises questions about historical differences between our world and a world that looks like ours but isn't. But how often is history brought up in a contemporary fantasy story? A character in a contemporary fantasy...