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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1947497" data-attributes="member: 633">Meh. Really, meh. Recently I've started playing an old Italian RPG named Lex Arcana (roman empire plus low magic). It is simple - for example, combat is an opposed check, damage is determined by margin, and the only options you have are fighting aggressively (winner gets +3), normally, or defensively (loser gets +3). You can dodge, but it's generally useless unless you are vastly more agile than good at fighting. That's about it.  Simple? Well, yes. Now, suppose you want to disarm someone or attack unarmed. Well, no. You can only kill, with weapons. Suppose you want to carry more than the standard amount of rations. Can't. Let's put combat aside and focus on roleplaying - want to make a character that is really good at crafting but not at healing? Can't. Want to make a character that knows everything about Rome's alleys but very little about the rest of the empire? Can't. And so on.  Obviously, the lack of rules for something doesn't really mean that you can't perform that action. It only means that the DM has to decide on the fly what rolls you should make to, say, grapple someone.  But, of course, the next time I grapple someone I expect to use the same rules. So it's better to write them down somewhere. Do this for one year, and you get D20.  What I'm saying is that D20 is just a simple system with its homework already done, for people who like their systems to reflect their characters in a somewhat accurate way.</blockquote>

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