Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle"

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That sort of repurposing is the YZ engine working as intended: it has a strong framework for general play, and then tools to dial it into a specific genre and/or playstyle. It is what makes it a good house system. As opposed to, say, d20 which was not as good of a house system.

Yeap, I think d20 was first and foremost built to be a Swiss army knife for power leveling fantasy. Thats is a good thing, but its also a only good for a general thing. Which is why horror, cyberpunk, mecha, anime, etc.. All just feel like D&D when using D20/5E.