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<blockquote data-quote="newt_42itus" data-source="post: 3579388" data-attributes="member: 52813">came across this and thought I'd bumpI'm not really a member here but I came across this an thought I'd answer some questions since I owned (i say owned because I sold all my pen/paper rpg stuff a couple years ago) copies of Cutthroat in pretty much all of its incarnations from the late 80's to the late 90's.By todays standards the system in all is pretty standard...it's a typical d20+skill+attribute bonus vs. difficulty number....your basic d20/OGL. the thing that made it special for it's time was that it was the *first* (that I know of) to incorporate such a system in that configuration way before wizards &quot;introduced&quot; the d20 system. I think the game became obsolete when d&amp;d 3.0 came out. cutthroat was an awesome game that was underfunded and underpromoted and as such eventually got lost in obscurity. r.i.p.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="newt_42itus, post: 3579388, member: 52813"] [b]came across this and thought I'd bump[/b] I'm not really a member here but I came across this an thought I'd answer some questions since I owned (i say owned because I sold all my pen/paper rpg stuff a couple years ago) copies of Cutthroat in pretty much all of its incarnations from the late 80's to the late 90's.By todays standards the system in all is pretty standard...it's a typical d20+skill+attribute bonus vs. difficulty number....your basic d20/OGL. the thing that made it special for it's time was that it was the *first* (that I know of) to incorporate such a system in that configuration way before wizards "introduced" the d20 system. I think the game became obsolete when d&d 3.0 came out. cutthroat was an awesome game that was underfunded and underpromoted and as such eventually got lost in obscurity. r.i.p. :( [/QUOTE]

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