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Okay, here's a conversion I did. Just did, actually. I went with a 5hd/CR4 Winter Demon, which seemed about "right". It has a Def of 21 and DR 10/Silver, so if we've got 1st-2nd (maybe 3rd) level standard d20Modern characters, he'll both be rather hard to hit and hard to hurt. Used the...

In my mind "What good are Will saves in Modern if you don't use FX?" is followed close behind by "And so goeth Will, where Wisdom?" Seemed topical. --fje

One of those things that's there if you need it. Wisdom, primarily, controls some of the more important "Modern" skills, like Treat Injury, and they used it to control Advanced Firearms Prof. You could, in a modern game of gunbunnies and no investigation, probably get away with tanking...

The Damage Conversion bit takes a bit to get used to. I'd say about one session before it becomes unconcious. It adds a little math, but the same little math as having some DR. You end up with a double-column of HP, though. The same rules have always been there (from D&D, anyway) but they...

For some reason I don't do alot of vehicle work, so I can't speak fully to those questions. By fully, here, I mean "at all". The time I used the chase rules worked out well, but involved only two people ... it was a foot-chase. The SRD is correct on the lack of the burn resistance increase...

It brought back some memories of being the trash-slogger at the local supermarket. Bad memories. :) I worked there at the downslope of the business. The manager was trying to hold onto every red cent ... so by the time things got thrown out, they'd been needing to be thrown out for a while...

Some of those were very odd questions. But I'm glad that people who were confused got their questions answered. And now ... now I know everything I need to know about the trash buoy at McDonald's when/if somebody decides to ... hide in one when getting shot at or something. --fje

I've used Wealth for SWRPG games in the past and it worked out wonderfully. It really does go well with the setting and its feeling, I think. --fje

My solutions involve modifications of Massive Damage Threshold and MDT saves. 1) I use D&D-style Nonlethal Damage/Subdual Damage (accruing damage) 2) I use "Damage Conversion", where incoming damage is transformed from Lethal to Nonlethal damage based on the AC/Def bonus of the armor. You...

In our current 12th level AoW game I'm playing a Bbn1/Clr11. I went Greatclub+Mithril Breastplate for momentum over AC. I make a wonderful tank. After about three rounds. For those three rounds, I'm a total punk. I tank by watching the fighter-type get his rump kicked, and then I immunize...

Keep the bonus. Not to get computer-y, but you check the rule at creation and it stays forever. Same with "Class" vs "Cross-Class" max ranks. If, at any time, your check returned "True" to "Class Skill?" then there-after that skill is set to Lvl+3. SPENDING skill points is checked at the...

But here's one of my questions. At 1st level, the "Hacker" hacker gains the "L33t" ability, which, if my reading is correct (book open in front of me) basically states that, at that moment, he doesn't fail a Computers check of DC 21 or less unless that failure is also an 'error'. I.E. unless...

What I was saying was if you want a game where you start as a SEAL, I.E. "one of the most highly trained military personel on the planet" then you need a game where the characters start with lots of skills, where they're "the best of the best of the best, sir!". However, if you have a game...

And having to house-rule special circumstances into a game in order to start with a character that's a recruit instead of a SEAL Team Leader isn't a good thing, in my opinion. :( It's a catch22, I think. You get one, you lose the other. --fje

I'll humbly disagree about magic being as core to d20Modern as superspy cinema is to SC2. The base classes don't say: "Man, I need a magic cellphone." Where-as the classes of SC2 do say, to me, "Superspies and Summer Movies". That magic fits in easily says to me, I think, that they just...

There's alot of goodness in SC2 that I, personally, think could be made better with d20M. ;) But that's me. --fje

In the interest of full disclosure, SC2 has campaign qualities in the back of the book that list ways to tweak the system for other genres. I still feel, however, that at its core SC2 is a superspies genre game. There has been enough done to the rules, and the assumptions of...

Spycraft is the new-shiny on the block, of course. For my part I think it is a solid system with some interesting advances in "gaming technology". But, again, for my part I think it did alot of stuff that didn't need to be done. But for doing a spy game I'm sure it would do very well. It's...

d20Modern has a single main book which is sort of a PHB, DMG, and MM all rolled into one. It gives the basic classes plus a few general Advanced Classes. It also includes a few "mini-settings" or setting snippets for Genetech (think Dark Angelish), Urban Arcana (D&D In NYC), and Shadow Hunters...

Everybody I know would eat up a super-dry legalese double-speak-filled report. So they could read through it and try to figure out just what the heck it's about. :) --fje