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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 8074150" data-attributes="member: 944">Detection is an issue. Its why SF setting have to put a tight lid down on surveillance tech.A example  It wouldn't be that hard to develop tracking implants and mandate them . They might cost pennies and be essential unavoidable as you can't work or buy anything without one.. That's maybe twenty years off tech BTW not far future.Modernity isn't that dystopian but cell phones are a menace to PC privacy as are cameras, license plate readers and countless other bits of tech that are everywhere.Non US setting would probably have more melee combat though a melee fight vs the baddies would attract a lot of attention in the UK.Also unless its the focus of the setting you can only use bulletproof monsters once in a while otherwise its gets silly. I overused ghosts with bad results and while my players told me it wasn't fun and I fixed it, it certainly was learning experience,Also super monsters could wipe entire towns or police stations  from the map and settings need to take this into accounting in some manner, either restricting power level, rarity, monster cabals or PC are the ones stopping it ala  AngelThis is why we see less modern fantasy,  while the setting is easy and obvious, its too hard to make work and not escapist enough.More on topic, problem is its harder to use past settings too. Lack of cultural familiarity and even if you do a Deadlands and  edit out hot button issues, its too much work to learn new tropes and very unfamiliar territory.Oz for example is more foreign than Fantasy Feudal Japan to many people.Thus we stick to comfortable tropes</blockquote>

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