2D6-Based Modern Role-Playing Game
From the introduction:
Cepheus Modern is a set of game rules for role-playing campaigns set in modern times. "Modern" is general term to indicate post-World War II to the present day.
Why make Cepheus Modern? The Cepheus Engine is a 2d6-based OGL science fiction game with a "hard reality" feel. It is set in the distant future, with faster-than-light spaceships and star-spanning empires. The system is robust enough to handle games set in the modern day, but needs rewrites to make it work for our modern day Earth. So the idea of Cepheus Modern was born. While the Cepheus Engine was the natural choice, the author decided to use Cepheus Light as the basis for Cepheus Modern. Cepheus Light has all the feel of the Cepheus Engine, but in a stripped-down form. Some elements of the Cepheus Engine, primarily the animal creation chapter, were used in Cepheus Modern.
Cepheus Modern contains rules for creating characters to play in modern day campaigns. Modern campaigns can run the gamut from military covert ops to fortune-seeking adventurers to secret agents. Campaigns may be firmly rooted in reality, or may add unusual elements. Chapters have rules for psychic powers, cybernetic enhancements, magic and mythology, and advanced aliens and their technology. Cepheus Modern is the toolkit for you to create your own modern day campaign exactly the way you want it to be.