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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4701683" data-attributes="member: 15538">d20 Modern assumed parity, by default. If the PCs have magic weapons, the bad guys do, as well. If they don't... well, there's nothing with DR in a non-magic setting, either.4e, on the other hand, assumes certain gear in its mathematics. Remove that, and the numbers have to be re-scrutizined.My point, if you want to phrase it in those terms, is that it's possible to ad those things to any game. But that doesn't make Tales from the Floating Vagabond an ideal game for playing Starship Troopers. You said "impossible," I never said or implied anything was impossible.Adding those things to 4e would involve a certain level of redesign. I think the final result is either likely to deform the intentions of the 4e design or to deform modern settings to fit 4e's original design priorities. Modern characters:- Tend to be polymaths.- Are more differentiated on the human scale; that is, threats don't range from dire wolves to balors, they range from Nameless Thug #3 to The Operative.- Don't often go door to door, killing things and taking their stuff, except in situations of societal breakdown.</blockquote>