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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skywalker" data-source="post: 2025796" data-attributes="member: 1538">A few comments:1. BR has all the combat options of D&D as far as I can see except AoO (if you consider that an option). The simplifications in BR revolve around making the systems faster not less of them.2. In BR, magic is actually very common. Non-Adept roles can learn magic through the Wild Talent and Arcanum feat. Again the main difference is that BR magic is a faster system than D&D and probably does not increase at the same rate. 3. Skills don't increase any faster than standard D20. The Skill system is identical to D&D except that rather than using Skill Points, it is assumed that max ranks are taken. To be honest that sounds like a crazy mish mash <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=":)" /> BR presents a nice streamlined package of the d20 system. It adds and takes away very little. Instead it focusses on improving simplification and speed.BR comes with a nice 3 pages D20 appendix that makes it easy to convert over. However, if all you want from BR is the skills and social then the actually book isn't going to add much at all. The skills are the same, even the social ones. It is just the emphasis put on them is different. No reason why you couldn't do that with existing D&D or just download the social interaction pdf off the Blue Rose site. I would recommend looking at Dynasties and Demagogues by Atlas than BR.Also, looking at your selections of games it would appear that Conan would cover it all. Rare magic, class defence, combat. Just give more emphasis to the social skills and it is almost done.</blockquote>

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