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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 8218051" data-attributes="member: 85870">I'll never know,&nbsp; because I don't even bother with D&amp;D or anything else on the d20 &quot;chassis&quot; any more.Just the other night I wandered&nbsp; down to my game shelf and pulled my copies of Fantasy Craft and Arcana Evolved off the shelf. The thought that immediately followed: &quot;I am literally never going to play these games, ever, nor do I have any desire to even bother attempting to re-learn the intricacies of the d20 system.&quot;At this point they're merely relics of a distant gaming past that doesn't need revisiting. If I want &quot;traditional&quot; style gaming, Savage Worlds does it better for me than any version of D&amp;D, new, retroclone, or otherwise.But I'm veering pretty hard into simpler / narrative style systems at the moment, regardless.*Edit: I remember now why I bought Fantasy Craft in the first place. Because it at least dispensed with the ridiculous notion in 3.5 that NPCs had to adhere to the same build structure as the PCs. If an NPC needed to have certain stats/abilities, you just gave it to them.*Edit 2: I just realized, [USER=63309]@corwyn77[/USER] , that you were referring to FFG Star Wars. That's a good question! I don't have a firm enough grip on FFG SW yet to want to houserule. Once I start playing it again, it would definitely be something I'd consider. I have Genesys too, though someone on these forums (I think it was [USER=6779310]@aramis erak[/USER]) said that switching to the Genesys talent &quot;pyramid&quot; vs. SW talent trees could unbalance gameplay in favor of the characters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 8218051, member: 85870"] I'll never know, because I don't even bother with D&D or anything else on the d20 "chassis" any more. Just the other night I wandered down to my game shelf and pulled my copies of Fantasy Craft and Arcana Evolved off the shelf. The thought that immediately followed: "I am literally never going to play these games, ever, nor do I have any desire to even bother attempting to re-learn the intricacies of the d20 system." At this point they're merely relics of a distant gaming past that doesn't need revisiting. If I want "traditional" style gaming, Savage Worlds does it better for me than any version of D&D, new, retroclone, or otherwise. But I'm veering pretty hard into simpler / narrative style systems at the moment, regardless. *Edit: I remember now why I bought Fantasy Craft in the first place. Because it at least dispensed with the ridiculous notion in 3.5 that NPCs had to adhere to the same build structure as the PCs. If an NPC needed to have certain stats/abilities, you just gave it to them. *Edit 2: I just realized, [USER=63309]@corwyn77[/USER] , that you were referring to FFG Star Wars. That's a good question! I don't have a firm enough grip on FFG SW yet to want to houserule. Once I start playing it again, it would definitely be something I'd consider. I have Genesys too, though someone on these forums (I think it was [USER=6779310]@aramis erak[/USER]) said that switching to the Genesys talent "pyramid" vs. SW talent trees could unbalance gameplay in favor of the characters. [/QUOTE]

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