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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 496513" data-attributes="member: 2525">Actually, I think d20M does espionage quite well, and plan on using it for that.SpyCraft has one fatal flaw - it is not SRD [Edit Note - By this I mean the name Spycraft, not the rules themselves. See later post for more details, before replying], and there is no [Edit Note: add word OPEN] license for it.  To me, this makes it no better than Gurps (worse even, since it doesn't have the long history of GURPS).  I want a product that has at least the potential of long term support from many sources - SpyCraft by definition cannot have that.  d20M already has some of it, and will likely have a lot more if sales are decent.  To me, that means ultimately d20M will win out even in the espionage genre, eventually.It's like comparing BetaMax to VHS taping (or Ataria and Commodore versus IBM-compatible).  Even if Spycraft/BetaMax/Commodore/Atari is the better product, in the end d20M/VHS/IBM-Compatible will win out.  Because if it is a closed standard, it is inevitably a closed market.</blockquote>