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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EditorBFG" data-source="post: 2656431" data-attributes="member: 24719">I use the Reserve Points rules from Unearthed Arcana and Iron Heroes.I have tweaked the Occupations some, mostly giving each a bonus feat and other little changes to balance them out more.And I have used a lot of Spycraft-- especially the Chase rules and other dramatic conflict rules from Spycraft 2.0.  Spycraft is rules-heavy, but that usually means that it has systems for things Modern doesn't.  Especially in investigation-heavy games when you don't want it to just be Search rolls and Sense Motive vs. a Bluff.  This is part of why Modern Player's Companion is so crucial for most Modern games, because they have Advanced Classes that deal with police-work and detective stuff, and most Modern games will interact with crime and the law a great deal.When magic has come into any Modern game I've been involved in, Power Points have been substituted for Spells per Day.And, obviously, I use Big Finger Games' POSTMODERN: The Versatile Hero and POSTMODERN: Traits and Flaws, which exist because we figured that Modern needed more character customization.I like Modern a lot, but my chief complaint is that 1st level characters need to feel cooler to the players. A 1st level D&D character seems a lot cooler and more capable than a 1st level Modern character-- and mechanically, he usually is more capable.</blockquote>