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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 4845994" data-attributes="member: 7261">I don't really think skills are that big of an issue, though some of them definitely need to be recast or given a modern spin.  Perception, Insight, Athletics, Acrobatics, Diplomacy, Bluff, Stealth... they all still make sense as is in a modern setting.  The knowledge skills are where things become dicey.  I can see mapping the natural sciences to Nature so that it covers basic Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Anthropology, Astrology and Physics.  Someone who is trained in Nature has good general knowledge in a lot of areas and knows where to look to supplement it.  Religion would cover Theology and Mythology.  Dungeoneering doesn't have a great matchup... maybe archeology and architecture?  Arcana would probably cover Occult and superstition.What doesn't really have a roll (naturally) is technology.  I don't know that I'd want to include computer hacking in Thievery.  I'd be tempted to add a knowledge skill to cover technology if 2009 was the baseline year.  If I went with a 1940's setting that's not going to be quite as much of an issue as the computer revolution hasn't happened yet.As for the issue of resolving a modern PC's improved talents through the skill system, I don't think there's really much difference between medieval PCs and modern PCs; both are exceptional examples of society.  Anyway, the character classes handle some of the disparities naturally; an infantry soldier is likely to be a fighter or ranger and would have Athletics and Endurance, not a host of knowledge skills.I was definitely considering adapting the D20 modern wealth system into 4e for a modern setting.  Honestly, 4e economics are such that after a certain point mundane goods and services may as well cost them nothing at all.  Unless you play with a bookkeeper DM that wants to track supplies carefully most of your fund goes toward purchasing magical items.  Nothing would change in that regard in my envisioned "modern" setting; there would still be a high degree of mysticism involved in the game and magic items, whether relics of an ancient era or stolen from the "other world," would still be a large focus of PCs as they go up in level.  There would probably be an opportunity for more artifacts in this style of game, (Longinus, the Holy Grail, Excalibur, etc).I was already assuming a baseline restriction of Martial and Primal (maybe Psionic) power sources early in the campaign.  I got to thinking maybe pagan and Greek mythology both has a place in this kind of setting.  If we assume Terra is the Earth of science and learning and Gaia is the Earth of magic and ritual, then Gaia could be the Feywild and the home of the Arcane classes.  Likewise, the Elysian Fields would be the Earth of gods and fate and could map to the Shadowfell (well, kind of).  I'm not 100% certain about setting information just yet.  I like some of the aspects of Urban Arcana, but other parts of it just seem silly.  I think there needs to be some supernatural and mystical component to a modern game setting because its a large assumed part of the D&D ruleset.</blockquote>

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