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Sorry for so many posts in a row but I just had another idea.
The Sandbaggers or Queen & Country

Quote from: RoninSorry for so many posts in a row but I just had another idea.
The Sandbaggers or Queen & Country

Sandbaggers in Spaaace! Use the Cold Space setting. Or Queen & Country in the FTL Now setting.

-clash

Note: Since we're both in Better Moousetrap, and JimBob either has or can get these for free, this doesn't count as shilling.

PIG's Home Front might also be a good choice.  Their three core systems (Impresa, genreDiversion, and Active Exploits) are almost identical in appearance so conversions are a snap.

http://www.pigames.net/store/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=214

Also, they've got a few Active Exploits settings you might be interested in:

http://www.pigames.net/store/default.php?cPath=21&osCsid=25089ab27bf9a94d1cba402984cf1f02

Pete the Company Shill

Ronin had some good little ones - you do know you can edit your posts, don't you, mate? Saves doing fifty of 'em.

I already checked out the Active Exploits ones - we can take 'em as read, I'd say. I mean if I got the system, I'll check out its books, yeah? Plus I always keep an eye on PIGames stuff, he used to sell d4-d4 on his site, I think we are forever joined or some wholesome sentimental shit like that.

The GM just emailed a couple of suggestions, they're off the top of his head so we can riff off 'em,

   1. You inherit something odd, and a few things a bit strange which leads your character into the seedier side of life (of which I know nothing about, of course)

2. I can stick you in some disease ridden central American country that has been recently hit by tsunami/cyclone/hurricane/earth quake/mudslide/whatever with the local mafiosa/warlord/drug lord running rampant. This way you can be whatever you like; relief worker/doctor/mercenary/local/tourist.

Quote from: JimBobOzRonin had some good little ones - you do know you can edit your posts, don't you, mate? Saves doing fifty of 'em.

Yeah, I know. Just in to much of a hurry for my own good, to go back and edit.

I guess it depends on how "realistic" you want.  There's a supplement for Active Exploits called "CORPS", which takes the implied setting of the original CORPS rpg by BTRC and fleshes it out a bit.  "CORPS" originally stood for Conspiracy Oriented Roleplaying System.  It's set in the real world, but with a complex web of conspiracies and secret groups pursuing their own agendas.  Some are more 'realistic' than others...

What is your take on modern settings with a supernatural element?  If that's acceptable, there's a whole range of stuff available.

Quote from: JimBobOz1. You inherit something odd, and a few things a bit strange which leads your character into the seedier side of life (of which I know nothing about, of course)

2. I can stick you in some disease ridden central American country that has been recently hit by tsunami/cyclone/hurricane/earth quake/mudslide/whatever with the local mafiosa/warlord/drug lord running rampant. This way you can be whatever you like; relief worker/doctor/mercenary/local/tourist.

#1 sounds a bit boring, or maybe I should say 'undefined'. Actually they both sound too undefined for my liking. What's this guy's thing? What's he good at? What does he know about?

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2. I can stick you in some disease ridden central American country that has been recently hit by tsunami/cyclone/hurricane/earth quake/mudslide/whatever with the local mafiosa/warlord/drug lord running rampant. This way you can be whatever you like; relief worker/doctor/mercenary/local/tourist.

You could get some ideas from The Wages of Fear :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Salaire_de_la_Peur

Regards,
David R

You know what's wrong, or incomplete, about those two ideas from the GM is that they are both external to the PC.  While they can make for great stories, they also put a hell of a lot of work on a new GM, which means he's likely to burn out.  In a regular game, a GM may have 3-8 players that do a lot of the talking, so the GM can just listen to what's going on and pounce on ideas, acting like s/he planned this all along.  In a solo game, it's ALL between GM and player, so the GM never has any breathing space.  It helps a lot to have a significant portion of the action generated by the PC.  

I think a lot of the action needs to be generated by you character, his goals or mission or issues or whatever.  The McGuffin plots, the catastrophe plots, etc. are fine, but they'll be much more fun if they intersect some grand design of your own.

In fact, it might make the GM's life a heck of a lot easier if you came up with a few thumbnails of characters your PC interacts with (contacts, allies, enemies, etc.) or places and organizations.  I have my players do that, and I have six players to rely on!  As GM, I would find it mind-numbing to invent all this on my own.

Quote from: JimBobOz2. I can stick you in some disease ridden central American country that has been recently hit by tsunami/cyclone/hurricane/earth quake/mudslide/whatever with the local mafiosa/warlord/drug lord running rampant. This way you can be whatever you like; relief worker/doctor/mercenary/local/tourist.

This says Romancing the Stone to me.  

"Zhoan Wilderr?  Ze Zhoan Wilderr?"

Pete

Quote from: JimBobOz
2. I can stick you in some disease ridden central American country that has been recently hit by tsunami/cyclone/hurricane/earth quake/mudslide/whatever with the local mafiosa/warlord/drug lord running rampant. This way you can be whatever you like; relief worker/doctor/mercenary/local/tourist.

That sounds like an interesting launching point.  Perhaps you could shade it with themes from works like The Quiet American such as idealism in the face of pragmatic needs.  Taking the action from the point of view of a security consultant for a NGO struggling to deal with the human crises as well as the corruption and moral failings of local and Western officials would give you a wide range of options.  Diplomacy, politics, love, and maybe even some shooting.


TGA

Quote from: JimBobOzAhem. Any more suggestions of realistic-themed settings...?

 Well how about pseudo-realistic?

 Something like "24" ?

 Instead of Jack Bauer, you're playing uber-agent/superSpy!/Problem solver extraordinaire James Roberts.   You're defending the Free World from those godless...well um... - well whatever the Free World  needs defending from !! (of course) Or if not that you're saving Australia and New Zealand from destruction. If you two make it James Bond-like ...occassionally gets to bed the babes too.

- Ed C.

I think Anemone is right on the money.