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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 3671559" data-attributes="member: 6779">Thing is, HERO prep time (particularly for fantasy) is usually pretty quick because unlike d20, it's all a la carte. You want a wizard to have fireball? Bam, he has fireball, you don't have to make him a minimum of 5th level, figure out his stat increases, additional feats, and skill points.It is true that you have to build the fireball "power" the first time you encounter it, which adds a bit of time. However, once it's built you can just give it to anybody you want to have it.Anyway, to avoid derailing the thread, I think the OP is on to something. The reason I switched to D&D when 3.0 came out was to take advantage of all the pre-written adventures to minimize prep time. However, I discovered over time that I wasn't really saving any time, because everything I found, I ended up wanting to heavily customize anyway ... at which point the spiderweb nature of D&D monster/class adjustment pounded on me. E-Tools was a godsend in this regard, but that hit a wall when WotC yoinked the license and is prohibitively difficult to add certain types of new content to.I am going to give the Saga Edition a try myself, because it does seem to be much simpler while still being flexible. Once that decision was made, it enabled me to chuck a lot of baggage inherent in D&D that had been bugging me for some time anyway. I'll still be customizing and converting, but the mechanics will be a lot simpler and I'll be able to concentrate more on making a cool setting and interesting NPCs -- without having to try to teach unwilling players a new system.-The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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