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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Liquidsabre" data-source="post: 1462991" data-attributes="member: 15635">As I have said before in other threads, the d20 system is flexible enough and possesses the variety to allow virtually any concept to see mechanical form in the rules and would be fairly well represented and simple. IME the only time others tote that something isn't possible are either lazy or simply don't know enough of the system to figure it out. The shear utility of being able to create new special abilities/magic/etc. let alone variant rules (see Unearthed Arcana for great examples) that would fit in within the d20 system make complaints more than a little weak in most cases.I'm sure if any nay-sayers wanted to they could lay out a concept and I'm sure a mechanicsm could be found/devised within the d20 system to fairly accurately represent it.The only argument that can seriously be made is Style of Play. The level-based system in d20 is a heroic/epic style of play where a character starts on the bottom of the heap and quickly rises to the top (hobbit-to-hero or farmer-to-king so to speak). And some folk prefer not to play this sort of style. World of Darkness games for example have characters begin play at a moderate power level and gain significant power at a slower pace, so a WoD character's power level remains much more static than your typical d20 character.So don't step up with arguments on mechanics, representation ,and conceptual problems, as these arguments can't help but be weak. It's a matter of style, and that's okay.</blockquote>

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