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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kengar" data-source="post: 1455032" data-attributes="member: 3230">Speaking as someone who played d20 for a couple years then left it, I will say that I know several people like myself who don't "hate" d20, but find it's not the system for them. My primary beef with d20 as a part of the gaming community is that I run into too many people who are unwilling to play anything other than d20, because they don't want to learn another game system.The fact is, d20 is perfectly playable, it's just that there are many other systems out there that are better IMO. It's a question of popularity being confused with quality. I call it the "Seattle Syndrome."Microsoft makes mediocre products that nearly everyone uses because they were successfully marketed to the point of marginalizing the competetion, even if their software is better written than MS's.Starbuck's make mediocre coffee that nearly everyone drinks because they've put shops up every 10' to the point that other coffee companies with better quality beans and roasts.WotC sells a mediocre game system which, through branding and marketing, has become the dominant system in the industry to the point that other systems are pushed to the fringe.In all the above cases, the product isn't broken or flawed. It works, but what accounts for its success is marketing, not quality.</blockquote>