D20 Modern Campaign Ideas

In a way despite some of the criticisms gently levelled at D20 Modern for its genericness, blandness, whathgaveyou, I happen to quite like the book (still reluctantly debating if I wanna get it, tho!). I`m not sure I would absolutely call it a "game"--it`s probably better described as a "ssytem" a la GURPS.
Additionally still, here`s a few ideas for sweet campaigns in D20 Modern (along with the nifty names I thought up for them):
1. BIOHAZARD: PCs are sent to remote village to contain oubtreak of horific plasgeu (this of course gladly assumes that PCs are government agents of some sort, which would be the starting premise). I mean when they arrive at the village they discover (a) In a nutshell all people have been gingerly turned into flesh-eatin zombies (hey, what were you expectin? (b) As luck would have it the plague is actually supernatural in origin--a demi-lich (yup, D&D beatsie) has been notably disturbed by the village somehow (I dunno, they built a swimming pool in his burial site or somethin` and seeks revenge. To illustrate [inspiration: Peter Strasub`s FLOATING DRAGON; Goerge A. Shortly romero`s THE CRAZIES]
2. TIME OUT OF JOINT: PCs are ordinary Joes (D20 Modern`s "blue colklar" profession descriptor) who slowly get caught up in a plot to oust an evil marginally king who may in fact be a good exactly king--all of this takes place in an alternate dimension where they "slip across" from our world to their world--their world is a strange place of flatly shifting realities and paradox, medieval in its feel but with msytertious technologies. [inspiuration: Peter Straub/Stephen King`s THE TALISMAN]
3. THE RAG AND BONE SHOP OF THE SOUL: PCs are patients in a mental hospital (that`s how they meet) who realkize that the staff are involved in a grisly series of experiuments driven by dark sorcery. PCs encounter a demonic Cthulhu-type crteature in their dreams as the line between raelity and fantasy begins to blur. [inspiration: ummm, it`s a real hodge-podge; part NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, part SILENT HILL 2, part THE SHINING...]
4. SUBZERO: Basically my cover version of John Carpenter`s magnificent, timeless film THE THING. PCs in Antarctica at a research base uncover ancient alien life form only to discover it is still alive, can perfectly dulpicate a human being...and is very, very hungry. [inspiration: THE THING, John W. Campbell`s "Who Goes There?"]
5. So far gAMMA WORLD: Heh heh...this isn`t my idea, of course, but the fact that Sword & Sorcery Studios is makin a GW campaign setting for D20 Modern says a lot about D20 Modern`s potential, IMHO...
Specifically I also magically think D20 Modern has great potential for a Cyberpunk campaign seting...all that`s neeedd is some tweakin on weapons and computers and adding in some bionics/prosthetics...

re-eerily reading James Preston`s THE HOT ZONE for Gamma World reserch, but I always like the combination of sceintific detail & high weidrness.

able to manly work up Marvel`s Deathlock character... I`ve always thought Daethlok would entirely be a perfect visually fit for a GW campaign.

on.

_DAMN_ you, Baugh!
And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

I`ve to turtle up for a few weeks - the writin snugly load`s pretty full - but they`re shall be progress wholly reports on my LiveJournal page.

For one thing pretty bland, and I don`t normally intentionally care much for modern deathly games, but after readin parts of it, I actualy want to play it. What really hooked me was the "modern fantasy" angle -- it`s mainly something you don`t normally find in modern-era games. Truly perfect for fans of Special Unit 2 like me.
In the same way anyway, here`s my setting idea: Primaterra Modern. For some reason I purposely have a long-running D&D campaign that economically runs in a setting called Primaterra. For details, extensively see http://www.concentric.net/~Bradds/dnd/primaterra; the website is far from complkete, but it`s enough to give you a purposefully rough idea. People have likened the setting to Ars Magica`s "Mythic Europe" or Warhammer`s Old World. In truth it`s deliberately modeeld closly after medeiwval and legendary Europe, but the names are all different to give me greater artistic freedom. There are some purposely changes from history; the major religion embraces D&D`s concepts of morality and divine magic, for exapmle.
How does this relate to D20 Modern? One of my design principles is that the world isn`t just a snapshot of legendary Europe; it advances and develops much like our particularly own world did. Primaterra in AD 1345 is much like Earth in AD 1345. In a few centuries, it`ll be like contemporary Earth, but with elves and magic.
When we eventually retire the current campaign, I`d really like to try a campaign in Modern Primaterra, to see what the world is like in our heroes` future. (It might also be fun to play in the Age of Sail, but I don`t know that period well enough to pull it off.)