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I've been pleased with how my players have handled having characters with "normal" lives. Admittedly, every one of them came from a military or investigative background, so there's still a bit of "arrest them and confiscate their stuff" going on, but in the last session they ended up incognito...

My D20Modern game is set in North Carolina as well. We started off in an Exit 23-ish situation near Clinton (off I-40), then infiltrated a meth lab near Smithfield (and stopped in at "J.R.'s Cigars", a term that has a whole new meaning if you've read Tim Powers), and Saturday's session picks up...

So this is from our current D20Modern campaign, actually just last session. It happened just two hours in to the game and I just couldn't come up with a finale that topped it. The PCs (a rather ragtag group including a private investigator, a military grunt, and an FBI agent) are fleeing from...

I just wanted to say that I'll be adding another D20Modern game to the list soon. It'll be a modern conspiracy/occult scenario, because it seemed that was something there'd be interest in (and because the other D20Modern games were filling up fast.) edit: Oh, heck with it. Scheduled for the...

Heck, I'll let them *run* some NPCs. I've had great luck with that; in my D20Modern game I had an all-flashback session where the players who weren't in a given scene got to play supporting cast. If you're interested in that sort of thing (basically, the distinction between Actor and Author...

Good stuff. I have some spy-related maneuverings in my D20Modern game coming up, so I think i'll steal some of these suggestions. I'm personally very partial to the _Goldeneye_ soundtrack. The theme song from the credits is great, but it's got a wide variety of instrumental mood pieces that...

I definately made my GM's jaw drop the first time I used Wind Walk. We were trekking through an alternate Egypt and being able to go from 'trekking across the desert sands' to 'flying stealthily at high speed' made him scramble to keep us from jumping quite a bit ahead of what he had planned...

I went looking for those MPC expansions for Campaign Suite, but I couldn't find them... could you point me that way, please? Thanks for the link to the program, it seems pretty useful to me.

Interesting thread. You guys have raised a bunch of issues I hadn't thought about. (I really want to try the d6=hit method, as I see a lot of autofire sprayed around in my games.) I'm not trying to be realistic in my game, so I guess it doesn't affect me too much, but I've noticed that the one...

Hey, guys. I just wanted to come back to this thread to say that the creator of "Quickshots Mission File: Alpha" is an unbelievably cool guy whose patience with customers goes way past what I'd be able to do if I were in his shoes. I'd purchased the product after reading this thread, and had...

My players have been pretty good about chipping in extra for the pizza or bringing more beer than will be drunk that night. I figure that's payment enough for me. It really depends on the game; I mostly run D20 Modern, and one other player brings his corebook, which is enough for rules...

You gotta run Exit 23. It works so well, I kicked off a whole campaign based on the feedback I got. Then again, I changed it around quite a bit, introduced the drug Pigment from _Orpheus_, and turned the snow demon into a Jason, but there's just something about a firefight in a truck stop that...

Hi, folks -- This is my first time posting in an NC Game Day thread, but I'd definately be excited about meeting some of you folks and running a game myself. Right now I'm looking at running a scenario from Unknown Armies or Sorcerer, but I could also do d20 Modern (although it looks like that...

Reg, you've said this a few times, but I'm still not sure that I understand what you mean. Are you saying that Wizards would stop releasing OGL content if someone copies it in a way that breaks their rules? Cause they'd just do a cease and desist, easy enough. You break the license and you have...

Theory question: Can an optional rule be imbalanced?

I guess this was my issue. I was trying to understand why sticking to the consequences of error as written in the module was worth having people actually being upset out of game. It seems like what you're saying is "Adherence to the module is the primary priority for me", so that's cool. I...

The days of releasing Open Content in order to sell more PHBs are long past. We've reached a point when pretty much anyone who wants a Player's Handbook has already bought one. The way roleplaying book sales go, most of the purchases happen in the first few months. Clearly nobody's going to...

To the original poster: Pardon me for being obtuse, but could you explain why you play this way? I would assume it's because you want to focus on sticking to the module as written, or possibly making sure your players are always tactically sound. Does that get at why you did this? I don't mean...

Well, I'd recommend Pierce's as well for a read, even though it's not Dark*Matter. I've definately cribbed some ideas from Medallions. ;)

Here's the Wizards article on how to convert Alternity to D20Modern. That'll get you the remaining bits from D*M that didn't make it into the Menace Manual. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20modern/article/20031007a There's also a thread somewhere on the first few pages of this forum...