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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3668521" data-attributes="member: 13892">What I'm looking to run is a modern-day fantasy adventure with PCs as average folks and the thing from myth and legend (as well as pure fantasy) slowly seeping into the real world. Something a bit like Poltergeist: The Legacy or Friday the 13th: The Series with elements of Pan's Labyrinth, I guess. So far, the following systems have been recommended:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Call of Cthulhu (Third Edition) 
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">d20 Modern (plus Menace Manual and Dark*Matter). 
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">World of Darkness (plus Antagonists, Mysterious Place, and Urban Legends)</li>
</ul>Now, I'd prefer to do this with as few books and/or as little weekly prep time as possible, so systems that get me near both of those goals win points (I already own HERO FRED and JAGS Revised but they both require me to build everything from the ground up, so they're both out, I'm afraid). What suggestions do you have to offer? [Note: I am 99% opposed to using True20 or C&amp;C, so please, for the love of god, don't recommend either without some stunningly brilliant justification as to why how/either would be appropriate. Thanks!]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 3668521, member: 13892"] What I'm looking to run is a modern-day fantasy adventure with PCs as average folks and the thing from myth and legend (as well as pure fantasy) slowly seeping into the real world. Something a bit like [i]Poltergeist: The Legacy[/i] or [i]Friday the 13th: The Series[/i] with elements of [i]Pan's Labyrinth[/i], I guess. So far, the following systems have been recommended: [list][*]Call of Cthulhu (Third Edition) [*]d20 Modern (plus Menace Manual and Dark*Matter). [*]World of Darkness (plus Antagonists, Mysterious Place, and Urban Legends)[/list] Now, I'd prefer to do this with as few books and/or as little weekly prep time as possible, so systems that get me near both of those goals win points (I already own HERO FRED and JAGS Revised but they both require me to build [i]everything[/i] from the ground up, so they're both out, I'm afraid). What suggestions do you have to offer? [Note: I am 99% opposed to using True20 or C&C, so please, for the love of god, don't recommend either without some stunningly brilliant justification as to why how/either would be appropriate. Thanks!] [/QUOTE]

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