The Shaman
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My wife and I were talking about the new television season the other night, and I was struck by how many programs from the last few years would inspire great modern-fantasy game settings.
This season brings us Invasion, Surface, and Threshold in the aliens-lurking-in-the-shadows genre, the return of the monster/horror classic The Night Stalker, and new seasons of Alias, Lost, Medium, and 24. Gone but not fogotten are The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Millenium, Brimstone,, and Charmed, to name a few (and not including the many I'm forgetting at the moment).
And then there is the boatload of movies, too many to list.
Mysterious aliens, magic and psychic powers, monsters lurking in the shadows, superspies, all set against the backdrop of the contemporary world - the genre certainly seems to be thriving on screens big and small.
I admit I find it a bit puzzling that there aren't more gamers playing in the Modern genre, particularly with games like d20 Modern, Grim Tales, and Spycraft available. What do you suppose it would take for these games to become as popular among gamers as their medieval fantasy counterparts?
This season brings us Invasion, Surface, and Threshold in the aliens-lurking-in-the-shadows genre, the return of the monster/horror classic The Night Stalker, and new seasons of Alias, Lost, Medium, and 24. Gone but not fogotten are The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Millenium, Brimstone,, and Charmed, to name a few (and not including the many I'm forgetting at the moment).
And then there is the boatload of movies, too many to list.
Mysterious aliens, magic and psychic powers, monsters lurking in the shadows, superspies, all set against the backdrop of the contemporary world - the genre certainly seems to be thriving on screens big and small.
I admit I find it a bit puzzling that there aren't more gamers playing in the Modern genre, particularly with games like d20 Modern, Grim Tales, and Spycraft available. What do you suppose it would take for these games to become as popular among gamers as their medieval fantasy counterparts?
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