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Spycraft is Alderac's d20-based game of modern espionage. It draws upon the classics of the genre -- James Bond, Mission: Impossible, The A Team, Sneakers, Alias -- to create a game that's reminiscent of classic RPGs like James Bond: 007 and Top Secret.

By default, the Spycraft source book assumes that the players are part of a larger intelligence organization -- one with multiple departments and enough of a bureaucracy to provide them with the gear and gadgets they need to fight their battles against nefarious masterminds. But there's nothing that says that this agency needs to be a government one -- indeed, in the first campaign setting for the game, the protagonist organization is the private Archer Foundation. Granted, the Archer Foundation is itself part of a larger, Illuminati-like alliance bent on stopping the forces of evil from conquering the world, but hey, at least it's a private organization.

I've been contemplating running a play-by-email campaign for a while now, and with the launch of the Libertarian Gamers Project I've decided to make it a campaign with a libertarian bent.

Offline, I've got a Dungeons & Dragons campaign (set in the World of Greyhawk) so for the online game I'm looking to run something different. My short list is:

• Spycraft (modern espionage game, using a d20 rules varient)
• Stargate SG-1 (based on the TV series, powered by the Spycraft rules)