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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 1533945" data-attributes="member: 3457">D20 Modern is a nicwe tool kit game in a vein similar to GURPS in that it is generic, no defining world (default is Urban Arcana). The rules are pretty straightforward and lend themselves quite well to one shots and campaigning as well (there are many games that do not lend themselves well to one or the other). I personally think the NonLethal combat rules are great from a realism/emulation standpoint but go against the stated design goals of D20 Modern, which is emulating action movies and adventure shows... I like nonlethal if I were running Modern American Bar Fight D20... but for Lethal Weapon or some such silliness... Subdual damage...My players do not like the wealth system, but it looks pretty good to me. It de-emphasizes equipment and body looting in a wonderful way.With D20 Modern you have very good system to play any game you want to play with very little work and it is perfect for pulp style games. I very highly suggest Urban Arcana as a supplemental sourcebook for Urban fantasy and it just has a lot of coolness going on between those covers. D20 Modern you can do ANYTHING right out of the box though.SPycraft is another AWESOME game and many people use it as a generic game system-wise. All told though, it takes a lot of time to set up a game that isn't spy based in my experience. The supplements are very pricey as well, and I know I shouldn't complain about my gaming dollar but man, there is a limit to how much I am going to be gouged for and I dropped Spycraft because of the prices, same with Dragonlance actually.I also recommend Call of Cthulhu, the ultimate one shot adventure game. Get either version as both are excellent, though D20 is much nicer to look at and is more informative from the toolkit approach that I prefer... The BRP version is great for the amount of information and scholarship put into HPL's work, but D20 has so much utility beyond just Lovecraftian horror.</blockquote>

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