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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 1298015" data-attributes="member: 2198">I've run into this.  The cover also makes it pratically impossible to shoot anyone inside a car, especially during a chase.  Seems the only way to end a chase is to ram the other car until it stops moving (which is okay, since you won't take any damage from the collisions).  Modern's vehicle rules are... blah.I'm also not fond of the non-lethal rules.  It really is pointless unless you've devoted a lot of feats to it.  Not very cinematic when the heroes can't KO a low-level goon without being totally devoted to knocking people out.Several actions (burst fire, force stop, etc.) should be possible to attempt without having a feat.  You'd be taking extra penalties, sure (like two-weapon fighting or autofire), but the way things are set up now feels very artificial.  It is, again, not very cinematic when the heroes can't even attempt to do something without having been designed with that action in mind.Some of the gun rules are a little screwy, like autofire.  And the wealth system has its quirks.Hmmm, I didn't mean to bitch quite so much.  I guess the reason to get d20 Modern is the classes, and the occupations.  Occupations are a wonderful character customization tool, and should have been imported into D&D when they did the revision.  A really, really, just great idea.</blockquote>