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I have been playing XCom Enemy within it is brilliant and the background is excellent source for a campaign. The game, genetics, cybernetics, aliens, agents, new enemy faction (humans who want to use alien tech to rule the world).
Normally if I was going to run this as a RPG I would use GURPS, but I think Shadowrun would fit better.
Shadowrun was going to be my suggestion 8th. Have you had a look at the new edition yet?
Yes - I may use this as an excuse to buy it :-)
I think Hero lab has the new addition available as well.
While GURPS would be a more detailed and probably closer to what I want in some ways, Shadowrun will be quicker and easier to implement.
Hero Lab has it already... will have to look into that. I splurged and bought myself the limited edition book for it, haven't had a chance to have a proper dive into it yet though. Looking at running a game early next year if I can get a group together.
Cyberpunk 2020/Interlock. The combat (as that's the primary focus of X-Com, let's face it) is solid and deadly. Very deadly. Mostly Class-Free character system, solid rules for armor (including staged penetration mechanics), cybernetics, and psychics can be folded in without much trouble at all.
I actually have rules for an X-Com style game using that system around here somewhere, I think. Lemme see if they survived the Great Data Crash of 2012.
I happen to be working on this at this very moment!
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This is the basic idea for my pitch:
I am not going to tell the players that it's XCom.
How would you guys like to play a modern day slightly supernatural game. I would like you to think of a character concept that would get you out and about, like a field archaeologist, CDC field scientist, A doctor from medicine sans frontiers, military, smuggler, I would alow people to be slightly psychic - suggestion, hunches and so on.
Then if I had time I would do a troop (one person playing their character and the others playing NPCs) style recruitment into XCom scenerio for each of the characters. Minimising the Alien involvement - hinting at a threat to humanity but from an unknown and "supernatural" force.
Slowly I would dripfeed the aliens and the set up of XCom. They would become an investigative team rather than a first response unit.
You could use d20 modern/future. It's probably going to be pretty easy to fit right out of the box.
Personally, I'd use GURPS for this sort of game. GURPS handles a wide-range of skills and variances in Tech Level, and can be scaled in power level with relative ease.
(GURPS falls down if you try to use it for 4-color super heroes, but is otherwise very flexible).
If you're willing to do the groundwork involved, i think GURPS/HERO would be the best for it. (i'm biased towards HERO, but am happy to include GURPS as a choice. I've got no enemies in games.)
Delta Green? (Also available on RPG Now.)
It would appear that the Cyberpunk 2020 X-Com ruleset I built a while back did, in fact, fall prey to the Great Data Crash of 2012. Which is a shame, considering that you can use out-of-the-book weapons for nearly every piece of armament in any X-Com game (up to and including Blaster Launchers).
So, I can be of no help in that regard, I'm afraid.
Personally, I'd use GURPS for this sort of game. GURPS handles a wide-range of skills and variances in Tech Level, and can be scaled in power level with relative ease.
(GURPS falls down if you try to use it for 4-color super heroes, but is otherwise very flexible).
Come now. As we've seen, no one actually plays GURPS
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It would appear that the Cyberpunk 2020 X-Com ruleset I built a while back did, in fact, fall prey to the Great Data Crash of 2012. Which is a shame, considering that you can use out-of-the-book weapons for nearly every piece of armament in any X-Com game (up to and including Blaster Launchers).
So, I can be of no help in that regard, I'm afraid.
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Your spoiler did make me laugh, FWIW. ;)
Victory! :D
I created a Starcraft d20 campaign and it worked brilliantly. I created 4 characters to form a tactical squad of men and the players had to pick which one they were.
I looooooved the burst fire rules from Dragonstar. They worked so well and I got tons of compliments on how smooth they played in with the system. Basically you roll to hit once and for every 5 you exceed the target's AC, you get another hit (up to the amount of shots bursted).
As a big fan of XCOM I would recommend these burst fire rules to you. Look into Dragonstar's autofire rules as well.