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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 611487" data-attributes="member: 158">Ruin Explorer: Long time no read! Glad to see you here, because unless you've been posting in some of the smaller forums, I hadn't seen you.Now: regarding a "hot-spots" source materials: I think such would be a great idea. GURPS, while doing a fantastic job, does not have perfection cornered with their books. For one thing, just as Ruin Explorer said about Afghanistan, information changes. What was current 5 years ago, is no longer current. There's always room to try a better mousetrap.Further, not to turn this into a political discussion, but the Afghanistan region today is still rife with violence and unrest. Common people seek to rebuild, and more urban areas are in fairly stable control, but the coutryside still has its share of splinter cells and small-time warlords - it's the reason why there are still US and UN forces over there now. So there's plenty of material for a source book of some type. The real problem is handling it in a sober and non-judgmental matter, and being able to do it justice.In regards to what sources to see:d20 Modern is a cinematic game: Ruin is definitely dead-on here. The kinds of things you should be looking at doing sourcebooks for is the kind of thing that defines genre TV programs: Horror, Wild West, Private investigation, Sci-fi, Mercenaries (THE A-TEAM!) and similar genres. I can't think of a single modern day TV hero that can't be recreated with d20 Modern rules.Heck, one of the things I did for fun about a month ago was to write up Colt "Fall Guy" Seaver in d20 Modern Stats! (I didn't get to Howie and Jodie, however.) Thomas Magnum would probably be some sort of Strong/Dedicated Hero. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So, TV Genres work well, as well as real-world info converted to d20 for easy use.P.S. - You might also want to work on the rules for Automatic and Burst Fire as a free teaser release, because half of the d20 modern playing populace seems to be unhappy with the Autofire rules in the Core Book.</blockquote>

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