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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 634158" data-attributes="member: 6469">Wax on... wax off... wax on... wax off...It's not so much that I go from liking the system to disliking it, it's more that the trials and tribulations of getting a group together can be an epic quest unto itself and is somewhat emotionally and mentally draining; players are such mind flayers <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Overall, d20 is my favourite system due to much of what everyone else has said about it. Other systems, I've found, always lack in some area or another to a degree that I find unacceptable.GURPS would be my favourite 'for instance'. I absolutely love the GURPS character creation rules however the system falls completely apart once you get to around 250-300 point characters and the combat resolution is... ugh.Rulesmonster (Rolemaster) is just so incredibly convoluted as to be unplayable... FOR ME.WoD sounds like a cool setting but the system is odd, to say the least.Hackmaster? Blah, no thanks. I dumped 2nd ed. because it was incredibly lame, why the hell would I want a rehash of it?And then you have your niche systems that are setting specific, usually based on some tv show or other like Buffy or Star Trek. I've heard the new Buffy book (D6) isn't too bad, but a friend of mine who is an avid ST fan looked through the various ST books and came away feeling like he'd just lost a few IQ points.D20 is not necessarily the be all and end all, but in my honest opinion, it's the best there is out there and, just to be clear, the best FOR ME.The fact that the company is listening to the fans and updating the ruleset to comply with popular demand is, to me, friggin' excellent. I don't necessarily agree with everyone elses desired changes, but on the whole I have similar wishes and therefore the system can only get better for me.If only they'd introduce a classless, hit pointless system, then I'd be truly in heaven <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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