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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 2226752" data-attributes="member: 172">I've seen people mention this "claim" a lot but a don't remember too many people behind its inception make such a broad claim. Even Ryan Dancey made no such claims. His primary claim was that systems aren't as important as networks. And I think history bore him out on that one.I think you misaprehend... or are strawmanning... what the d20 concept is.Fans can claim anything. (But even the fans who think that it can handle anything equally well seem to be in the vast minority.)This assumption I have seen from time to time, but it's mostly wishful thinking amongst those who like mixing things up. Still, it is easier to massage away the differences between two systems written to the same baseline (whether that baseline be d20, BRP, FUDGE, or what have you) than two entirely different systems, so the notion isn't totally unjustifiable. But to expect it to provide passable support for wildly different genres AND to expect adaptation to be easy would be a little much. (Though there are some systems that pull this off better.)</blockquote>