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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Masada" data-source="post: 1755118" data-attributes="member: 19339">I think the rules for spaceships were kept very simple by design not "lack of knowledge or effort".  d20 Modern is a *role* playing game 1st and everything else second.  Detailed ship, vehicle, space vehicle rules become game dominating.  At this point it's not a RPG anymore and more of a tabletop combat game.  There's nothing wrong with a game more focused on ships and machines.  It's just hard to be both a starship combat game (accurately depicted) and a playable RPG without 600 pages of rules.  The learning curve on the d20 System is already a huge barrier to new player adoption.  Keeping it as simple as possible and re-using as much as possible are key goals in the system.I don't think WotC made any mistakes in picking the systems they did.  No GM seriously interested in detailed space combat is going to be prevented from finding or creating a new combat system.  If you have one already, by all means post it.</blockquote>