In order to not be tricking people you're going to need to 'specify' that the "D&D" game that you're wanting to run isn't actually D&D at all.
Anything short of that is just lying. You seem to have no problem doing it but are getting upset when people call you on it.
People on the internet advising you not to do something is much less drama than what is going to happen when you trick people into playing "D&D" only to find that isn't what is going to be happening at all.
That's a bad time for everyone.
I see you haven t reads the thread then. At multiple points I’ve explained I am advertising the game exactly as I am describing it here. In fact further into the thread I placed my ad, I said if I use D&D, I Only Mean using a d20, skills, ability scores, and AC. No classes, no adventurers.
It is not D&D, it is d20 horror, but players may not know what “x d20” means. So D&D is easier to say.
in fact some of you inthis thread may not know what “d20 x” means. Which is taking the elements of the D&D system (using a d20, skills, saves, attack bonuses, etc) and using it in a different context. There’s d20 Star Wars, and d20 Spycraft, which is James Bond-risqué shenanigans, and I’m pretty sure there’s a Superhero game using d20.
But because 3e, the system d20 was built on, was two editions ago, I’d be using 5e as the reference point instead.
In My Ad I compared typical D&D with horror elements ya as the movie Aliens: marines with heavy fire power goimg in to kick aas, and encountering nightmare horrors. I am looking for Alien, which is blue collar non-combatants thrust into a terrible situation they have no defense for.
No one will show up with illusions this is anything other than what I intend for it.
It is so exhausting repeating this every page.
Anyways, it looks like I’m not getting any response for a rl game, so I’ll have to do this online. Which means I don’t have to use D&D any longer