[d20 Modern] What kind of adventure you like?

[Stormborn]

Stormborn, check your email.

Done and Done.

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

Above, I voted for horror, since it's really the only sort of modern era game I've ever run.

In you're case, though, I'd pick up the Second World Sourcebook and combine both campaigns!

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

It was more to introduce everyone to the differences of the d20 Modern system. Actually, we made Ordinary heroes, IIRC. From that adventure we went into the realm of modern fantasy, recruited by an X-Files-like org, trained in blah blah.. It was a fun and different approach for our group.

And actually, on that subject, does anyone play relatively ordinary people in a supernatural or extraordinary setting? That's been my only experience and it was a positive one.

Well, I did find GMs complaining about players being accountants or what not. Without investigative or combat skills, players are unlikely to be doing much (successful) dice rolling in-game.

Plus the natural differences among the players are probably greater than the differences between heroes (eg they're not "equal" when it comes to things that would be done in a Modern game).

 

[arwink]

Modern Adventurer (ala Indiana Jones, but in 200X)

This was the concept for Relic Hunter, and look how well that turned out

 

[deltadave]

I think it's most interesting to see what characters your players make and then design the game from there... of course you need a little bit of lead time after the characters are made.

They will tell you thru their choices of character what kind of game they would like to play.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

If I let them do that, I'd be running a game in which James Bond, the first black president of the USA, the 6-million dollar man, and Conan the Barbarian in jeans fight for justice against the Shadow Ninja Mecha Wizards from Dimension X.

Sometimes it's better to curtail their choices a bit.

 

[Gomez]

Because I can't let these kinds of things go, how about...

The PCs are a band of book thieves and forgers (possibly all of whom have legitimate careers in the literary or academic world) who, several years ago, worked together to steal and replicate a french grimoire that dates back to the 1400s. They replaced the copy they stole with a fake and sold the original to a private collector.

The fake recently went up for auction and was purchased by a book agent working for an unamed patron. A few weeks later the agent was found dead in her hotel room with no obvious clues as to how or why, except a strange symbol drawn on her forehead. All of which would be meaningless to the PCs except that the same thing has happened to the private collector to whom they sold the original, a man reported to have mob connections.

Meanwhile the PCs are being investigated, or harrased, by various agencies that could include the FBI, Interpol, the CIA, and assorted mafia types. All of whom have apperantly picked up the connection between the book and the PCs, or at least suspect it, and want to know what is going on. Thus the PCs are drawn together again to protect themselves, to either solve the mystery or wind up in jail or dead. Add to this mysterious letters from different hands either threating, pleading, or courting the PCs to come forward with any information about the book, strange symbols showing up in odd places, long time friends and coworkers asking unusual questions, and the sense of wings fluttering on the edge of vision over and over and you have a sufficently occult/conspiracy/crime adventure that could take the PCs anywhere in the world and could be set in almost any time or palce in the last 200 years.

When I read this the first thing that popped into my mind was "Occult Ocean's Eleven!"

 

[Gomez]

If I let them do that, I'd be running a game in which James Bond, the first black president of the USA, the 6-million dollar man, and Conan the Barbarian in jeans fight for justice against the Shadow Ninja Mecha Wizards from Dimension X.

Sometimes it's better to curtail their choices a bit.

Amen to that! The GM's idea of a campaign and the players idea of it sometimes are totally different.

PS. Love your avatar!

 

[Stormborn]

When I read this the first thing that popped into my mind was "Occult Ocean's Eleven!"

And that, I assume, is not a bad thing.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

PS. Love your avatar!

Thanks. I did that for our book club, The Transfiguration Book Club, but it's such a funny pic that I now use it as an avatar.