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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 2832360" data-attributes="member: 4275">The idea that WOTC would be afraid of another product is a non-starter for me. The games would appeal to different tastes. There are people who have a pre-disposition that classes and levels and HP cannot work with supers. These folks would never buy a supers game containing these elements even if it was a co-design by Jeff Grubb and Steve Kenson, had a Chris Shy cover and interior artwork of never before released Jack Kirby pencils. On the other hand there's also a large segment of the gaming market that want something they can layer on top of d20 Modern, either to spice up an existing game with the occasional freak accident (like the guy on the X-Files who could shoot lightning from his hands) or to run a very high-powered campaign (think Aliens vs. Predator with d20F used for the bugs and Spectaculars used for the Predators). When I want to run straight-up supers, I use M&M in favor of Hero- a system that was my supers system of choice for 20 years. On the other hand, I don't RUN straight-up supers often, I run a SHIELD/GI-Joe style game were highly trained military people deal with mutants and freaks of nature on a regular basis. So something based on d20 Modern is more what I'm looking for. At any rate, since ability for products to compete is based as much on distribution access and company name recognition as it is product quality, and since Wizards has been "playing the hits" with their d20 Modern releases of late, releasing books like d20 Apocalypse, I would be surprised if this book was canceled and go out on a limb to say that if it was, it wasn't because WOTC is afraid of a little competition. Chuck</blockquote>

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