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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1212407" data-attributes="member: 5171">Honestly, I agree with both of you.I personally wish that it had less D&D-in-modern-day focus, but I also know that the only way I convinced my group to start it was by showing how they didn't need to learn a new rules system, because it was exactly the same as D&D, for the most part.There are parts that I like -- I love being able to use Monster Manual monsters right out of the book (with new names: hello "victim of mutagenic steroid", good-bye "ogre"), and I like having a ready spell system that I can use for a rule of thumb for how my campaign FX (which I'm self-making) can work.  For example, I can make Hold Person, with flavor-text changes, into a neural disruption ray that can be fought by focusing your concentration to break through the disrupting effect.I didn't need that stuff in the book, but I can see how their marketers would have thought it important -- since it so obviously WAS important to a large part of my group, even though we're not even PLAYING D&D-in-modern-times.They really tried hard to sell d20 Modern on two levels, from what I can see:1) It's a core system that can make any kind of campaign you want2) It's the core book for these three campaign worlds, each with different FXI could care less about the latter, but it was definitely important to some people.  Not everybody does homebrew, so (1) wasn't going to sell the thing all by itself.</blockquote>

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