I've played IC. It's fun.

Good to hear! The setting fairly oozes love for the history, even if the book itself could use a few touch-ups in editing. Were you playing the original version of the game, or the more recent edition?

And if you enjoyed Ironclaw I imagine you'll enjoy Urban Jungle even more, given its early to mid-century noir subject matter. ^^

A fan-made RPG called Legend was one I helped develop. It started off as D&D 3.5 homebrew to try and bring balance to the forc... er... character classes. After a hundred plus pages of house rules, we declared the task impossible and started from scratch.

In brief: status effects are no longer 'save or lose', melee got nice things, casting got hit with several flavors of nerf-bat, and the mechanics are settings-neutral, where mechanics are completely separate from flavor. This means you can run a game in anything from steampunk to space opera to classic fantasy, just change the names to preserve the guilty. Healbot is no longer a mandatory role because every class has the capacity to have self-healing built in, but having a character devoted to healing can provide mid-combat restoration to mitigate problems. Just about every class is capable of dishing out respectable damage, depending on how it is built. So you can build a class for damage, or for tanking, or for crowd control, or for healing, or for several other jobs to be done in combat. But you'll never be able to make a character that can do ALL of them with a single character.

Best of all, it is completely free to download and redistribute. Check it out, you might like it.

I think I have checked it out...or may need to grab it again, it was on my old laptop that died. I liked it, but I never found anyone willing to play it with me, and the last few years I've drifted away from D&D and its cousins to other game systems. I like the way Sanguine's Cardinal engine 'feels' for lack of a better term, but if I had to do d20 I'd suggest Legend to people for sure.