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You represent that Your Wizards of the Coast and are used according to the terms of the d20 Contributions are Your original creation and/or You have sufficient rights System License version 1.0. A copy of this License can be found at to grant the rights conveyed by this License. www.wizards.com. ULTRAMODERN FIREARMS d2 F REWORD FOREWORD I am not an expert on guns. and that's exactly why, back in 1993. I wrote tfle original version of this book. Over the years, a number of gun books for gamers have come along. and most have found a place on my shelf and a good bit of use in my games. But in every case there have been a number of problems. Most of these books seem to devote a lot of space to interesting but obscure prototypes at the expense of much more common and useful weapons. Every single one 1s poorly organized. requiring a lot of page turning to find agiven entry. Many are burdened with overwhelm ing volumes of numbers, meaningless to all but the most accomplished gun enthusiast. And all are under-illustrated. or very poorly illustrated. Even those books that stick 10 photographs (and I am not just referring to game books-this is true even of "mainstream" weapons encyclopedias) are filled with dark, blurry images, often photographs of photographs of photographs. I found that a weapon I couldn't visualize rarely if ever showed up in my games. These are a few of the issues I wanted to address when I started work on Ultramodern Firearms. As the book progressed, however. I began to see other ways I could make it more useful to the typical gamer (myself included!). For instance, as I researched the various weapons. I noticed a number of features-some common, others found only on a rare few weapons-that gamers would probably like to know about. In a conventionally-organized book. the only way to get an ryyerv1ew of these features is to read and remember every entry. I know I don't want to read the descriptions of seventy different weapons just to outfit a character with the ideal sidearm. So I came up with the Features Index, a fairly comprehensive listing of the features found on every weapon covered m the book. I hated the way most gun books were so densely packed with text and numbers that everything seemed buried. so I gave the book an open, easy to digest layout. Most gun books list guns organized by country of manufacture (a system carried over from real -world gun references). but I found that listing them alphabetically made look-ups much easier. The original Ultramodern Firearmswas a supplement for the Millennium's Endgame system (no longer in print). Millennium's End had a pretty limited rnculation (especially compared to the d20 system), but Ultramodern Firearms was a breakout product, sell mg thousands more copies than any other supplement and perhaps even more than the core game book. Over the years. many people have told me how useful they've found the book. and even other game designers-developers for many well-known roleplaying game systems-have told me about the essential role Ultramodern Rrearms has filled in their reference library. As a designer at Wizards of the Coast working on the d20 Modem Rolep/aying Game, I quickly discovered that several ofthe other members of the design team had copies on their shelves-and they were using them. Aparently I wasn't the only one to find this approach to a gaming gun book useful! Updating the book and retooling it for the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game seemed like a no bra1ner.