CaesarCV:
Hm...you do have a point there. Still, if there's more interest for a Sci-Fi setting I'd be happy to do it. What do you guys think about a more Urban Fantasy idea? It would be probably almost like a weird take on the 'Magical Girl' concept, with people getting powers to save people and all, but also getting transformed? Could be interesting to see how people might try and cling to their ordinary lives or fall to their new ones.
The "why bother boosting the soldiers?" objection has rather less force if magic is involved. Magic is, after all, not exactly the most rational, coherent phenomenon in the world! Maybe the PCs are getting inhumanized because
that's just how the magic works; maybe the source of the magic (whatever it may be) has some sort of hidden agenda, and the inhumanizing fulfills that agenda; maybe the inhumanizing isn't a
necessary part of the magic, but it's happening because of ignorance (
i.e., "you mean we could've avoided this if we'd done X!?") or expedience (
i.e., "well, it was either get inhumanized or let the Nasties run rampant until the next solar eclipse"); maybe something else entirely.
So, contemporary Urban Fantasy is a viable option. If you choose to go there, it would be neat if you
didn't invoke the Masquerade [
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Masquerade ]…
I think I'd still prefer Fantasy of the non-Urban kind.