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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 753273" data-attributes="member: 4">Fun stuff learned along the way...1) I now know why I will never be able to run any kind of long-running Modern campaign -- I suck at coming up with ideas.  Even for one measly adventure I couldn't do it.  So I fell back on an old Alternity adventure I wrote a few years back and updated that.  I wish the Future rules were here, because I had ideas for sci-fi adventures...2) It took me a long time to figure out that there were feats that could make unarmed combat actually do something.  If you have to beat a typical CON score (10) with a d3+something punch, you're never going to knock someone out.  But the feats that increase unarmed damage and allow more frequent critical hits make that work a little better.  Still think I would have prefered a vitality/wound model better in this case.3)  The vehicle rules look intimidating.  Help me out here:  let's say the heroes are in a small car, driving through the streets, and they hit a garbage dumpster.  The car takes damage from the collision, but because the heroes have 3/4 cover from being in the car they take no damage?  I must be missing something.  4) I know nothing about guns.  They all seem alike to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />5)  for a one-shot game, the heroes have way too many action points.  I'm gonna only give out 2 to each character.  Anyway, the game is tomorrow.  I'll let you know how it goes.</blockquote>

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