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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1653921" data-attributes="member: 10201">Not quite. BESM Tri-Stat is "just" an Anime system. It's a specific instantiation of Tri-Stat, and differs markedly from the SaS and Ghost Dog instantiations of Tri-Stat. It just happens that BESM was the first Tri-Stat game, and many (but not all) of the innovations to Tri-Stat over the years were in BESM first. And, as befits the "Hero Lite" label sometimes applied to it, it can be used for other things, and frequently was--though GoO is trying to get people to use the purpose-built Tri-Stat dX for that, instead. BESM D20 is, likewise, intended to be specifically an Anime system built upon a more general system (D20 System) which, just like Tri-Stat, has been used to handle all sorts of different styles in its various instantiations. So, while i'm sure BESM D20 can handle a breadth of styles, just like BESM Tri-Stat can, that's quite different from it being specifically designed to do so. Tri-Stat is the outgrowth of the original BESM, just as D20 System is the outgrowth of D&D3E, so the proper analogy is saying that D20 System can be used for a broad range of games, rather than that specifically BESM D20 can be. Not saying it can't be [frankly, i consider it on the ever-growing list of D20 System instantiations that are considerably superior to the D20SRD], just that your analogies and comparisons don't support it.</blockquote>