thebitterguy

Picked up Tony Digerolamo's Complete Mafia today. While interesting looking, it seems to diverge from the d20 standards in much the same way as Haven and Blood and Guts did, and suffers for it.

I haven't gotten too deeply into it, but the book is so far filling me with confusion and fear (and not in a good way). . The classes are confusing. They have strange pre-requisites, and some of the advanced classes require having been in ANOTHER advanced class (usually "family associate", which is either Made Guy or Babe).

And he cuts out occupations entirely (?!) and then includes several in the end of the book that seem mostly set around women working in the sex trades (seven of the 11 listed).

Maybe once I've been through it, it'll be clearer. But it's definitely not a book that is designed to be easily compatible with the standard d20 Modern rules; the lack of a d20 stamp on it is a sign of that.

I guess putting together a good compatible d20 Modern supplement is a real challenge. That must make