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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8270606" data-attributes="member: 82106">And I think that is pretty much the beginning and end of this topic right there <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />D&D does some things well, and it does other things less well, or simply doesn't offer any capability to do them at all. This is not simply a question of things like "we have no rules for simulating a character hacking a computer." THAT would be perfectly simple to add, and games like MA/GW, 4e GW, d20 Modern, etc. have all done so with ease. Instead the challenge here is more with process of play. D&D allocates roles at the table to different participants, and provides associated process for them to use. This is structured to provide a certain type of game, and not other types of game. These sorts of game design elements also permeate other aspects of game design. While you can certainly graft different things together, a design where specific processes are envisaged from the start will play better in many cases.Beyond that, the concept of a power curve, PCs which level up from relatively weak to incredibly powerful really works well for the type of game it is. It won't necessarily work well with other types of game. For example most supers games don't really include a progression of character power, or at least not much of one. Likewise with most games which are set in more 'real world' types of settings, James Bond doesn't have 100 hit points, so to speak, or at least that mechanic doesn't capture the genre very well.Obviously you COULD make games that use some elements of the d20/D&D rules to an extent to make other games. d20 in the 3e era was an attempt to do that. I'd note that most of the games which were written/ported to that core set of rules ended up not going far. A bunch of shops/designers dropped a d20 variation of their games, but in almost every case they went back to other mechanics. Maybe some of that was business decisions, but I think most of it reflects an inability to really get a generic set of rules like that to produce the desired game experience. Other 'general systems', d6, BRP, GURPS, have all run into the same pattern. Some games work well under them, but most are improved by using custom bespoke mechanics.</blockquote>

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