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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the_myth" data-source="post: 3660858" data-attributes="member: 20081">hmmm...Unlike other posters, I'll stick with fairly contemporary products:In no particular order:1.  Psychic's Handbook: excellent generic Psychic rules based on a Feat + Skill system2.  Mutants & Masterminds 2.0: excellent generic Supers rules that can be adapted to many other settings.3.  True 20: just got the free PDF and all I can say is WOW!  Some flaws, for sure, but I am impressed with the attempt at generics.  I need to watch for sales on the supplementary products now.4.  The Dark Matter Setting for the Alternity rules set.  Despite being an awesome ruleset, Alternity never had a chance, but the supplement for the Dark Matter setting was superb, from the content to the quality of the book as a product.  I do not own the d20 equivalent, but I somehow suspect I shall find it inferior.5.  The Forgotten Realms hardcover for D&D 3.0.  It's just a damn good basic book with interesting, useful new rules.hmmm...I never realized that 3 of my all-time favorite products came from Green Ronin.  Rock on, Green Ronin!  Keep up the great work.  I am sure I'll acquire more of your stuff in the future.Honorable Mentions (with old-but-useful stuff):Stargate RPG: I literally was in awe after reading these rules.  So complicated yet elegant.  A friend and I both slobbered...Spycraft 2.0: a progression of the rules from Stargate.  I don't think it was as well done.  Some rules overly byzantine, which I hear they've corrected with a second printing or something.  *shrug*Call of Cthulhu d20:  Sadly, I never much cared for the Basic system used in CoC, so I liked this adaptation of the setting to d20 rules.  Plus it actively incorporated magic, which I liked.The Complete Guide to the Fey: Just got it for $3.  VERY impressed!  Especially at the potential of creating viable fey characters without unwieldy level adjustments.Elves by Mayfair Games: great variation on Elves and Elven societiesDark Conspiracy + the Empathic Sourcebook: a great idea much-copied but not as well.The Compleat Spell Caster by Bard Games: VERY old, but a decent, very basic spellcaster system adaptable to lots of rulesets if you just wanna throw in a little magic.The Arcanum by Bard Games (apparently resurrected recently as Atlantis: The Second Age):  A progession from the rules in the "Compleat" line mentioned above.  Interesting pseudo-Conan setting with generic yet kinda complicated magic system.  New version is in my wishlist, but the old rules have a long following.There are others, but I think these can all be useful in games using contemporary systems.</blockquote>

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