Damnit, I won't be the first to name check Burn Notice in this one.

As an inspiration for how to run campaigns when the players have access to all the cool modern toys and skills that are out there, it'd be hard to beat. The characters are always on the phone, on line, and frequently using technology in a variety of creative, innovative ways...

...which doesn't mean they don't send Mr. Fake-Smile-Overactor (at least when he's in disguise) in a fancy suit to talk to a guy about a thing as the central conceit of every.single.episode.

Not a single episode has passed where Sam looks up from the computer as says 'I just googled the bad guy's shell company and hacked their server, so you can just relax Mikey... job's done.'


Not one.

Also: If ever I'm in a game that doesn't include super powers or divine might and a player uses any sort of hand held computer device to hack, on the fly, a manned military vehicle of any sort on the fly I'll probably crush their skull with the force of my hate... as a GM or a player.  The number of 'Idiot Demand Plot Holes' that requires would require several posts to enumerate, and frankly I don't have the energy (and also: Dragon Age 2...) to bother.