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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 184391" data-attributes="member: 172">Re: Oh, come on...Um, which country is publishing it now? Hmmm...Good for you. The same cannot be said about a majority of the audience.Speaking as an engineering graduate, stubborn. My education would have been much easier if I didn't have to learn slugs and foot pounts and other annoying and difficult to work with units. There are too many greybeards that are happy with it the way it is. It's probably going to take a few more generations before it sets in in the scientific and engineering communities, and some time after that before it sets in in the public... if that.However, I think WotC would be remiss to publish a game around assumptions of what the &quot;superior&quot; units system is. What people know and are comfortable using is far more important.That's entirely specious. The problem came by failure to convert between metric and imperial units. It's easy to say that if everyone was working in metric there would not have been a problem. But by the same token, if everyone ignored the metric system and stuck to imperial, there wouldn't be a problem, either. In fact, I bet the incident, if anything, slowed the adoption of the metric system.At any rate, back to the point: I really doubt d20 modern will be metric.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 184391, member: 172"] [b]Re: Oh, come on...[/b] Um, which country is publishing it now? Hmmm... Good for you. The same cannot be said about a majority of the audience. Speaking as an engineering graduate, stubborn. My education would have been much easier if I didn't have to learn slugs and foot pounts and other annoying and difficult to work with units. There are too many greybeards that are happy with it the way it is. It's probably going to take a few more generations before it sets in in the scientific and engineering communities, and some time after that before it sets in in the public... if that. However, I think WotC would be remiss to publish a game around assumptions of what the "superior" units system is. What people know and are comfortable using is far more important. That's entirely specious. The problem came by failure to convert between metric and imperial units. It's easy to say that if everyone was working in metric there would not have been a problem. But by the same token, if everyone ignored the metric system and stuck to imperial, there wouldn't be a problem, either. In fact, I bet the incident, if anything, slowed the adoption of the metric system. At any rate, back to the point: I really doubt d20 modern will be metric. [/QUOTE]

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