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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8265724" data-attributes="member: 20564">Have to disagree.1.  Many of the other games I like are lighter than D&D.  Subtracting too much and D&D isn't an interesting shell.2. Something as straightforward as a different magic system would be a huge change for D&D, not just a lift and shift.  The amount to import it and balance I'd rather put towards play.3.  Many of the other games I'm looking for have distinctly different dynamics - that's why I'm looking at them.  For example, Fate's economy is solely powered by accepting Fate points for my Aspects being used in negative ways. Would I want to rip all resource management out of D&D? Why? Don't Rest Your Head has a die pool mechanic that includes where the highest die came from being important, even critical. How would I graft that onto D&D?4.  Many games have very different character creation and advancement.  Look at Hero System.  I'd never be able to graft on that to D&D and still have it feel and run like D&D.  Shadowrun (well, I haven't read 6th) had a priority system and different tracks.  Many games aren't zero to hero.5.  D&D has a lot of combat focused rules, and some of the games I want to play have very different focus.  I don't want that overhead.6.  D&D 5e is my favorite edition of D&D, and I've been playing since Red Box Basic, but it's not even my favorite D&D-like game. That's the d20 game 13th Age.  I play more D&D because there's more players, but once I'm looking at heavily customizing the rules I lose all that and might as well start with the game system I want.</blockquote>

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