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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4384068" data-attributes="member: 18">Dark*Matter is a bit of a mish-mash too. Apart from vague references to dark matter itself and a weak tendency to take the &quot;right-of-center&quot; take on any given conspiracy theory (likely for reasons of gameability, possibly unconsciously), it has no &quot;unifying factor&quot; regarding the various wierdnesses of the D*M. This is very unlike, say, Conspiracy X which had detailed, interlinked explanations for everything. It does make D*M harder to &quot;break&quot; by a player having read the GM-oriented material (though iirc, Conspiracy X often used the &quot;one of these three things is true, you pick which&quot; method, which is the perfect defense against that), but I don't think it's a whole giant less of a &quot;mish-mash&quot; than D&amp;D.I do think a re-written and updated Dark*Matter, especially with all the conspiracy potential afforded by Gulf War 2.0 and Afghanistan and so on would be pretty special. However, another d20 Modern-style cut &amp; paste hackjob would just be sad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 4384068, member: 18"] Dark*Matter is a bit of a mish-mash too. Apart from vague references to dark matter itself and a weak tendency to take the "right-of-center" take on any given conspiracy theory (likely for reasons of gameability, possibly unconsciously), it has no "unifying factor" regarding the various wierdnesses of the D*M. This is very unlike, say, Conspiracy X which had detailed, interlinked explanations for everything. It does make D*M harder to "break" by a player having read the GM-oriented material (though iirc, Conspiracy X often used the "one of these three things is true, you pick which" method, which is the perfect defense against that), but I don't think it's a whole giant less of a "mish-mash" than D&D. I do think a re-written and updated Dark*Matter, especially with all the conspiracy potential afforded by Gulf War 2.0 and Afghanistan and so on would be pretty special. However, another d20 Modern-style cut & paste hackjob would just be sad. [/QUOTE]

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