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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TikkchikFenTikktikk" data-source="post: 5195281" data-attributes="member: 67494">(It's alive! It's moving! It's alive! The thread is alive!)One aspect totally missing from this discussion is the whole "soft" side of the d20.Rolling a d20 feels great. (Literally, I love the feel and sound of rolling a well-crafted d20. Rolling dice pools feels unwieldy and sounds worse.)Rolling a d20 feels special, feels like D&D. It is only used heavily in D&D and in D&D-derived games.  The image of a twenty-sided die has almost become **the** symbol of D&D, along with the fire-breathing dragon ampersand.The golden rule of D&D since v3, and especially, explicitly so in 4E is "When your character tries to do something that might fail, roll a d20." Rolling a d20 to hit goes back decades."Rolling 20s" is part of the gaming lexicon, and it's linked to D&D. To a lesser extent, so is rolling 1s. These happen often enough to be a communal experience and create a bond amongst D&Ders.The d20 is part of D&D's brand equity. Replacing the d20, or even just diminishing its role, with anything else could only be justified if the improvement to gameplay were **massive** or the replacement came with some ginormous amount of goodwill. I think six pages of debate have shown the improvement in gameplay by using 3d6 instead of d20 is arguable, not massive. And anything that makes D&D feel less special and more like Yahtzee or Farkle is a massive failure.Replacing the d20 with a dice pool in D&D would be like the modern Christian church replacing the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost with just God.</blockquote>

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