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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Achan hiArusa" data-source="post: 1245461" data-attributes="member: 2597">Lifted from the Book of Vile Darkness?Excuse me?  Lifted from the Book of Vile Darkness?  First off CoCd20 came out first.  And all the CoCd20 spells are taken from the original Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium.  Ergo, those spells in the Book of Vile Darkness were taken from the minds of the writers from Chaosium (who adapted those from HP Lovecraft's own mind or those of his imitators).  Apparently, this was part of the contract that Wizards signed with Chaosium.With a limited games budget I would recommend that you stick with your download of the Modern System Reference document and use that with CoCd20.  I have problems with Modern and there are some rules done better in CoCd20.If you want advice on how to run a horror game I would recommend Hunter:  the Reckoning.  There is more on a single page about how to run a game than in the entire Modern d20 rulebook.  The rules are not in anyway related to d20 (being the White Wolf house system), but the advice it gives is valuable.  And you might be able to translate some of the rules to give your players a nasty surprise.Spycraft is a very heroic game and would not fit the Horror genre well.</blockquote>