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"Modern" tabletop games
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Hey everyone,
It's been a few years since our gaming group played a tabletop RPG but one system that got a lot play was D20 modern. Our old group liked how it encapsulated everyday stuff. We have no problem with fantasy games, but I'm looking for a system built for "today." I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Or should we stick with what we know? I get the feeling from Google that D20 modern is a little long in the tooth.
Thanks!
It's been a few years since our gaming group played a tabletop RPG but one system that got a lot play was D20 modern. Our old group liked how it encapsulated everyday stuff. We have no problem with fantasy games, but I'm looking for a system built for "today." I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Or should we stick with what we know? I get the feeling from Google that D20 modern is a little long in the tooth.
Thanks!
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https://m.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3oinnj/anyone_running_5e_modern/
http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/my-new-d20-modern-campaign
http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/modern-magic
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So what do you want out of a game?
D20 Modern, like most of the 3.x versions of D&D is basically running a simple simulation thing. A given wall will always be the same DC to climb. It is this hard to hit guy x and so on. If you fail the rules tell you exactly what happens next. If this is the sort of thing your group likes and expects I'm not sure that there is much out there that is better than D20 Modern and a lot of things people consider "modern" in RPGs don't really have a place in it IMO.
If you want to do something like tell James Bond stories or Ocean Eleven stories or pretty much anything out of fiction where it is clearly the narrative driving how things happen you might want to look at the Cortex system. Cortex is the system used in Marvel Heroic Roleplaying where I think it did a great job of making the game play like something you could actually read in a comic book. They have settings for the con show Leverage and for Firefly which should both give you enough "modern" stuff to figure out what sort of game you'd like.
Dresden Files is a really good, modern era focused system that's heavy on the storytelling. It's sibling Fate Core is similarly excellent if you want to tell your stories without all that supernatural stuff.
Spycraft 2.0 is largely an update of the old d20 Modern stuff (which I loved as well), and as such it's pretty easy to transition to from a d20 background.
Feng Shui 2 just came out a year or so ago. It's modern in the sense that Hong Kong Crime Action Movie is one of the things it mashes up into the setting. If you like jump kicking robots while firing SMGs akimbo at shao lin gorilla monks on either side of you, it's a great game.
There's actually a 4E Modern out there available in PDF. It's alright, though I've never played it in a vacuum, we always just added it to Amethyst.
Just about any Star Wars system can be jumped down to Modern-style games if you just use some common sense.
If you want to go old school, Alternity was a neat system back in the TSR days that was mostly a more skill-based AD&D Modern thing.
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Yep, they're all centered around modern day(excluding obvious exceptions like Dark Ages and such).