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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1766523" data-attributes="member: 2205">Ah, well that does change things.  I'd agree that there's not been any particularly great translations of d20 into certain futuristic genres.  But that's a separate question.Whether it is or isn't, I still think your position should stand or fall on it's own merits, not based on who said it.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The thing I'm struggling with is how is that limitation worse for modern/futuristic genres than for any others?  It's a limitation that crosses all categories, regardless of the time frame of the game.  Are you saying that you are more willing to accept that limitation in a fantasy game?  If so, I'm actually kinda curious about that.But with free multiclassing, it's not expected that you'll take ten levels of, say, Strong hero and that's that.  You still get to 20 levels if half of them are strong, half of them are fast, and a few of them are in the advanced class Soldier, for instance.  But I can see how that is technically a limitation, but the workarounds are so easy it doesn't really seem like a severe one.  Not only that, Grim Tales expands the 10-level Modern classes up to 20 levels.It's a single combat maneuver.  It's a paltry rule.  I've never played any system that was perfect, and house ruling something as minor as autofire has been abour on par for any system I've ever used.  If it were a fundamental part of the way d20 worked, I'd understand where you're coming from, but where it's a single action that can be done in combat, I think that it's a level of detail that doesn't make sense based on the rest of the discussion.  Unless autofire really plays hugely into your game, and it completely doesn't work without a different autofire rule, and maybe that's true, but it seems inherently unlikely.</blockquote>

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