Serenity : role playing game

I love the verse, I like the idea behind the cortex system, in practice though it was too confusing for myself and my players. While the flavor language that fills every page helped get you into the right headspace it became increasingly frustrating to rifle through the book and try and make sense of the rule system amidst the cloud of colorful verbiage. I understand the new Firefly RPG uses a Cortex 2.0 that may well have streamlined the system but my players are just done with cortex all together so I'll be running my next firefly campaign with a modified version of d20 modern, possibly with some lifts from this iteration (like the money system, planetary distances, etc. just converting all attributes and skills otherwise)