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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 1456157" data-attributes="member: 6777">BESMd20 is the only d20 product I'm aware of that actively markets itself as being even mildly multi-genre. All of the other games you're citing are, in and of themselves, specific genre RPGs.It looks to me like publishers are thinking: "Hey, d20 has the largest fanbase in the hobby. Why don't we come up with RPGs that are basically compatible but handle more than just D&D-style fantasy, seeing as that's all the SRD can do?"I.e., the very existence of these games demonstrates that d20 is not a universal system. The publishers know this. There'd be no incentive to buy their products otherwise. (I can see the ad copy: "It's like d20, but even less flexible!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)It all comes back to the BRP or StoryTeller analogies. Each of those systems has served as the basis for RPGs dealing with every genre under the sun. This has not caused anyone to claim that either one is, at its core, a "universal" RPG system.d20 gets this rap, though, because it makes great fodder for complaining about apples making lousy orange juice. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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