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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2565678" data-attributes="member: 26473">Take a look at <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=1966000&postcount=44" target="_blank">Wing and Sword</a>, our Modern military game - we're using the core rules, Weapons Locker, and a couple of house rules. Other material (feats and AdCs) from Ultramodern Firearms and Modern Player's Companion are conditionally available, but so far all of the characters are core.A number of gamers complain that Modern doesn't do "gritty" very well (no called shots, firearms damage doesn't scale relative to hit points, &c.), but I think it works fine if you remember a couple of things: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Start with lower-level characters and reasonable stats (25- or 28-point buy) - allowing the players to begin with 36-point buy, 10th level characters then complaining about the lack of lethality in the game is a bit backwards, IMHO</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Massive damage is the great equalizer: the MDT equals CON, making saves more frequent - failure drops the character to -1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Healing is different and may have a definite effect on campaign pacing - absent magic or future-tech, adventurers will need time to recover between actions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Repeat after me: cover and mooks...cover and mooks...cover and mooks... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></li> </ul>It's been mentioned already, but it bears repeating: Modern is a game of cinematic heroes, so as GM plan for player characters that can survive damage from firearms and explosives more often than might seem "realistic" at first look - google the U.S. MOH and DSC citations to see real battlefield heroics, and expect to find similar in your game. Some gamers don't care for this - I do, so the system is a good fit for me.</blockquote>

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