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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1463646" data-attributes="member: 812">Because it's valuable to me. You seem to be steering the conversation in the direction of "What game system is better (for barsoomcore)?" -- which is substantially different from "Is d20 having a negative impact on the gaming industry?"Your assertion is that the d20 system is having a negative impact on the gaming industry by stifling creativity. As evidence, you suggested that the fact that people will buy a product with d20 stats over one without d20 stats  supports a supposed myth that products must be system-compatible.In counter to this evidence I suggested that a product with more compatible stats is demonstratably more valuable, so people might choose such a product without buying into any myth whatsoever."The ultimate example" of maximising value by reducing space devoted to useless stat blocks, is what I meant. A product can maximize value through other tactics, of course -- like providing useFUL stat blocks. Sorry for the confusion.Now granted that in fact stat blocks exist on a continuum of usefulness and probably none are at either 100% or 0%, but that just means that useful stat blocks provide value in proportion to how useful they are. The more a product consists of less-useful stat blocks, the less valuable the product is to me, all other things being equal.That's very interesting, but entirely beside the point. The question is -- is d20 in fact having a negative impact on the market by perpetuating a myth that systems can't be combined? I don't find any of the evidence you've presented to be very compelling.</blockquote>

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