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<blockquote data-quote="Croaker" data-source="post: 819911" data-attributes="member: 2964"><p><em>American Gods</em> by Neil Gaiman is an excellent book, and well suited to a story-oriented d20 Modern campaign--basically, gods and other supernatural creatures exist only as long as people believe in them (for instance, Eostre, the pagan fertility goddess, is going strong thanks to chocolate bunnies and Paas egg dyes, while Odin is pretty much reduced to seducing women one at a time for enough worship to subsist on).</p><p></p><p>For a non-magical campaign, Donald Westlake's <em>Dortmunder</em> books are a great source for the kind of things that go into planning and executing heists. Also, his <em>Porter</em> books (Mel Gibson's movie <em>Payback</em> was based on one of these) are good for a grittier look at crime, although they are written under a pseudonym which I misremember.</p><p></p><p>Comic-wise, the <em>Preacher</em> series by Garth Ennis, as well as his <em>Hitman</em> series. <em>Hellblazer</em> and <em>Books of Magic</em> are great for magic in the real world. <em>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</em> goes without saying.</p><p></p><p>Anime and manga can provide a lot of inspiration as well, from guns-n-cars action pieces like <em>Riding Bean</em> and <em>Gunsmith Cats</em> to dark future horror like <em>Wicked City</em> (a great source for a different take on a ShadowChasers/X-Files idea; basically, the supernatural critters have their own equivalent of the Men in Black, which occasionally works with human enforcement to maintain the fragile peace between worlds).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Croaker, post: 819911, member: 2964"] [I]American Gods[/I] by Neil Gaiman is an excellent book, and well suited to a story-oriented d20 Modern campaign--basically, gods and other supernatural creatures exist only as long as people believe in them (for instance, Eostre, the pagan fertility goddess, is going strong thanks to chocolate bunnies and Paas egg dyes, while Odin is pretty much reduced to seducing women one at a time for enough worship to subsist on). For a non-magical campaign, Donald Westlake's [I]Dortmunder[/I] books are a great source for the kind of things that go into planning and executing heists. Also, his [I]Porter[/I] books (Mel Gibson's movie [I]Payback[/I] was based on one of these) are good for a grittier look at crime, although they are written under a pseudonym which I misremember. Comic-wise, the [I]Preacher[/I] series by Garth Ennis, as well as his [I]Hitman[/I] series. [I]Hellblazer[/I] and [I]Books of Magic[/I] are great for magic in the real world. [I]The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen[/I] goes without saying. Anime and manga can provide a lot of inspiration as well, from guns-n-cars action pieces like [I]Riding Bean[/I] and [I]Gunsmith Cats[/I] to dark future horror like [I]Wicked City[/I] (a great source for a different take on a ShadowChasers/X-Files idea; basically, the supernatural critters have their own equivalent of the Men in Black, which occasionally works with human enforcement to maintain the fragile peace between worlds). [/QUOTE]
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