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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1054098" data-attributes="member: 10201">Which may be partly marketing-speak.  Though, in fairness, *i* consider it standalone.  I don't own a single other D20 product 'cept Dynasties & Demagogues, and i don't see any reason i can't run a game using just AU.  (If i do, i *will* be tacking on the social-interaction stuff from Dynasties, mind you--but D&D doesn't have that stuff, either.)I think my favorite bit of WotC OGL-necessitated marketing-speak i've found yet, however, comes from 2 paragraphs further down:Lessee--"other fantasy RPing supplements" i already own...  Cool! I finally have another book compatible with Aria: Worlds!  Or maybe it works with Cugel's Compendium of Indispensable Advantages.  And then there's Sky Point & Vivane. And, while we're on really cool fantasy cities, howabout Cliff Spider and Cry-Star?  This is gonna be *so* cool, putting all of those together.  :-^)As for translating my existing campaing material, my current campaign is using heavily-modified Ars Magica, hybridized with the D&D3E spell list, for the system.  I wonder how comprehensive his conversions will be?...    At least with the Scarred Lands stuff, they're only claiming compatibility with 3rd Edition RPGs, so i *know* it won't work with Ars Magica 4th or Earthdawn (there isn't even a 3rd ed yet).</rant> Sorry.  I just get sort of sick of RPG publishers talking like D20 System is the only game in town--WotC OGL restrictions notwithstanding.  I also think they're shooting themselves in the foot a little bit, when it comes to pretty-much standalone products like AU (and Spycraft, and so on), which clean up or improve the D20 rules significantly, and could very well appeal to non-D&D players (like myself).</blockquote>

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