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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 4866376" data-attributes="member: 51930">I disagree.Specifically, I'm not going to run a "modern" game.  Modern is for spies, sure, but it does't cover space opera, or sci-fi concepts like the movie Heavy Metal did.  Those are fantasy, and can indeed be covered by 4e.  Lasers replace arrows.  Swords can be described as made of force-fields.  Armor can still be armor.As it is, everyone who can use a Bow can make a ranged basic attack.  Whether one roll with a d6+dex damage is from a bow or a gun or a blaster, the opportunity to do that is still there.  Defenders are in use anyway.    Why don't people use ranged weapons more?  Why don't dwarven defender-fighters have a crossbow out when they walk through the woods, then Quickdraw their greatsword?  I don't know, but they can.The only reason is that it's understood in 4e that every fight is melee.  Seriously.  The barbarian will run forward and howling strike the ogre, way before standing back and throwing a rock or trying to collapse the drawbridge on them.     That said, if you put players on a tank, if they have super-melee powers described as written, I would be shocked if the Barbarian didn't use his fancy At-will melee powers rather than staying behind using his ranged basic attacks.  Machine gun or not.I don't think that in a Rifts setting I would need to re-skin all the powers.  It's a fantasy setting with tech elements.  I don't think anyone would want to re-skin between rifts and eberron and forgotten realms.  IMHO.Buffy setting nothwithstanding, however.  I should maybe re-name this thread!</blockquote>

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