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<blockquote data-quote="Trevalon Moonleirion" data-source="post: 4690609" data-attributes="member: 492">I own several of the books, but only really played once or twice.&nbsp; I'd like to give running it another shot sometime, simply because some of the setting possibilities are nifty, and the system is more or less familiar to anyone who's played D&amp;D in the past ten years.Expanded from above:&nbsp; I *love* Dark*Matter.&nbsp; It is one of the coolest setting books I have ever read, just chock full of cool fluffy bits, and easily adapted to just about any conspiracy you've ever heard of or seen in an X-Files episode.&nbsp; I got to know it while it was an Alternity book, but never was able to convince a group to play.&nbsp; (&quot;We don't want to learn *another* system&quot; they'd groan.)Come d20 Modern, and I thought I'd have a chance again to run the setting, but I was too lazy to adapt the crunchy parts of the setting into d20 equivalents.&nbsp; By this time I didn't even really have a regular gaming group either, so I cared less.&nbsp; Once they released the d20 reissue of Dark*Matter I picked it up while thinking of running an adventure for a game day, but was generally disapointed--it was a slimmed down copy/paste of the Alternity book that didn't add much of anything, even rules-related, and subtracted quite a bit of useful setting info.So, for me at least, d20 Modern was a failure.&nbsp; I got perhaps 2 genuine uses out of the books, so it cost me about $15 bucks per use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trevalon Moonleirion, post: 4690609, member: 492"] I own several of the books, but only really played once or twice. I'd like to give running it another shot sometime, simply because some of the setting possibilities are nifty, and the system is more or less familiar to anyone who's played D&D in the past ten years. Expanded from above: I *love* Dark*Matter. It is one of the coolest setting books I have ever read, just chock full of cool fluffy bits, and easily adapted to just about any conspiracy you've ever heard of or seen in an X-Files episode. I got to know it while it was an Alternity book, but never was able to convince a group to play. ("We don't want to learn *another* system" they'd groan.) Come d20 Modern, and I thought I'd have a chance again to run the setting, but I was too lazy to adapt the crunchy parts of the setting into d20 equivalents. By this time I didn't even really have a regular gaming group either, so I cared less. Once they released the d20 reissue of Dark*Matter I picked it up while thinking of running an adventure for a game day, but was generally disapointed--it was a slimmed down copy/paste of the Alternity book that didn't add much of anything, even rules-related, and subtracted quite a bit of useful setting info. So, for me at least, d20 Modern was a failure. I got perhaps 2 genuine uses out of the books, so it cost me about $15 bucks per use. [/QUOTE]

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