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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razuur" data-source="post: 1508628" data-attributes="member: 1997">I am the primary GM.  Learning and teaching the systems has always fallen on me.  Now when I was younger and in high school and college, it was fairly easy to keep all of these different systems stright in my head.  Then as I got older, and became a computer programmer, got married, had a kid.  Now life is just far more complicated, and it seems that my head has less room for the extra.... drek.  I began getting real tired of everytime I wanted to switch genres, I had to relearn the rules and reteach them.  The gaming group only has time for a one night a week session, and all we really want to do is play.Now we primarily play D20 - because it is intuitive.  We still play WW World of Darkness.  I have enough brain power outside of Real-life to know the rules for apprx two systems and their variants.  My players sometimes want to try other systems, but I say sure - you GM it and learn and teach the rules.  that pretty much quashes it.For me, D20 has finally grown into what I have always wanted it to.  With all of the different options and toolkits and settings out there, I can pretty much use D20 in whatever genre I want.  We don't use minatures, and play really cinematically.  And enough sources to determine which autofire rules we like best, for example.  So in the end, D20/OGL has more than enough to keep me.  Very soon, my decade long WOD campaign will be over, and then I fear that WW will no longer be played.  I wish WW would open the storyteller to Open Content.  I think the influx on new blood would help rectify some of a great systems few flaws, and breathe new life into a great system.If I could have one D20 mechanic that I don't have, it would be a leveless D20 mechanic. Something in which players are rewarded experience and spend it as they wish on whatever they wish.  We are close with Mutants and Masterminds.  The closest I have seen is the OGL section in Godlike, which presented the bare bones of such a system (by Mike Mearls).  I have created my own system, which accomplishes this, but would love to see some other publishers takes to see how mine stacks up.Razuur</blockquote>

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