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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2735787" data-attributes="member: 26473">Climb down from My Little Pony, Warlord Ralts - I already qualified that my response was limited to those elements you chose to mention, not the challenge of writing a generic Modern adventure.If you would like me to write a treatment for a Modern adventure, provide me with a detailed scope of work and a project timeline, and send it to me by e-mail. I'm not a graphic artist, so artwork and editing are YP, not MP, but I'll be happy to offer some suggestions on artwork to get you started.I'll tell you right from the giddyup that it won't be a very good adventure, since as we already established it's finding-a-black-cat-at-midnight-in-a-dark-basement-on-a-cloudy-night hard to write something that covers all possible genres, but I'll do my best.Back to you.And I was addressing the specific bits and pieces you mentioned as problematic.Nearly every Modern campaign?Now that's a horse of a different color. How 'bout an adventure arc that incorporates incantations, monsters, enchanted weapons, genetically-enhanced supersoldiers, and psionics? I ran a Modern campaign for more than two years with those elements - that's in my wheelhouse.Back to you.And I agreed. Yesterday.Now I think you're overstating your case just a tad.GMs rip and tear adventures all the time - many run their entire campaigns this way. They'll convert from one genre or system to another, file off names and serial numbers and plug them into their campaign as whole cloth, or blenderize encounters from a half-dozen sources to make an adventure.Bottom line: good material gets used.Modern has healing as well, often right there among the adventurers - I don't recall ever playing in a Modern game, come to think of it, where somone in the party didn't invest in Treat Injury.Healing in Modern tends to be less powerful than the healing in fantasy games, which affects encounter level and pacing, but it's not wholly dependent on formal EMS systems - I think that's why it's called the Field Medic AdC, instead of ER Resident.Nowhere did I say they're equivalent - please don't ascribe quotes to me that I never wrote.I drew an analogy between the role that nobles play in many medieval fantasy games with that of local law enforcment in Modern.However, how exactly is a SWAT team encounter more difficult than any other Modern encounter to write or run? Guys with guns, flashbangs, and close teamwork - you don't include this in your games anyway?And how does this differ from a group of fantasy NPCs that use magic, stealth, and brute force? Please pass on the generalizations this time - be specific.In a fantasy setting, it depends on the guards, doesn't it? A couple of devils on guard gate in a couple more devils the next round - throw in some sorcerer levels, and they summon some other monsters as well, all "in a matter of seconds."Still not feeling the difference here, Warlord Ralts. Have you much experience with running say 12th to 14th level Dungeons and Dragons games?When I want to know police response times, I look up the community where I place the adventure on the internet and pull the numbers directly from the source, but for the sake of argument, let's go with three to five minutes for the first four one-man cars to arrive - that seems to be a consistently reported response time in most affluent communities, at least along the Left Coast. That's thirty to fifty combat rounds in d20 Modern, which IMX is a hella long time in most games. In your experience, how many encounters run that long? How often do you write encounters that are designed to last that long? And how many groups have characters willing to sit around that long and wait for the police to arrive (unless the characters are the ones doing the calling, of course)?And a police helicopter is unlikely to be blasting a cone of cold or an entangle spell on the adventurers (though that is an interesting idea...!).All of this of course postulates that you set your adventures in an urban or suburban area someplace in the Western world - have you tried setting a Modern adventure in the Amazon, or the Yukon, or the Kalahari? Now you're lucky if cellphones work at all, and police response is an hour by plane, provided anyone even knows they're needed, of course.I've never read any of your work, so please forgive me if I'm wildly off-base, but it sounds like you haven't written for Modern very much.Good job defining the scope of the issue - now throw down a couple of constructive suggestions on how to affect a positive change in the Modern marketplace.</blockquote>

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