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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 6245866" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>I haven't really been a regular 'round here in quite some time, but since I've been poking around the last week or so, I thought I'd give a quick and dirty gaming update of what I've been up to.</p><p></p><p>I used to be known, by those few who paid attention to me at all, as a guy who was always looking to houserule d20 into a low magic, "fantasy <em>Call of Cthulhu</em>" type of paradigm, who wasn't very interested in things like system mastery or tactical combat. For a long time, I modified D&D (3.5) itself with third party and original houserules. Then I wandered into using d20 Modern + d20 Past. I flirted briefly with Pathfinder. I never even looked at 4e, much less played it. (take <em>that</em>, [MENTION=2525]Mistwell[/MENTION]!)</p><p></p><p>Curiously, it was Pathfinder itself that brought an end to that era in my gaming career. Now, I still play d20 of various stripes with my gaming group. But I finally decided that I won't run it again, most likely. I liked many of the things Pathfinder did to update 3.5, but after a while, the sheer, ponderous <em>tediousness</em> of it all got me down. I probably could have endured 3.5 indefinately, but seeing it "turned up to 11" in terms of tediousness, is what finally convinced me that the many compromises I'd made with the system to cram them into something that my rather esoteric tastes would enjoy weren't what I was looking for after all.</p><p></p><p>I houseruled Old School Hack for a while, but it was too divergent really to ever become my "go-to" system, in spite of the many things I liked about it. But when I belatedly discovered m20, I decided that my Holy Grail search for the Promised System had come to an end. The system promised compatibility with d20, so that I could use, without too much fuss, all of the mountains of monster books and everything else that I had accumulated for that system. But, without all of that complexity. Without bogging things down with minutiae and more rules than I needed.</p><p></p><p>I still need more playtime to test the hypothesis that my m20 variant is sufficient to induce me to stop looking for systems for good, but early results are promising.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I compiled all the m20 stuff that I wanted to use in my own game, which was a combination of some basic m20 stuff with some of the setting-specific details of m20 Cthulhu and a few other variants. After putting all this together, it occured to me that it wouldn't take much more work to make a <em>completely stand-alone</em>, full-fledged OGL compatible m20 game out of the document. So I did. The majority of the actual work was to type up my introduction to role-playing and roleplaying philosophy type stuff. Which I've helpfully posted here as a teaser. And then, the link to my document.</p><p></p><p>I guess I'm not really looking for feedback, because I'm pretty convinced that this is the system that best meets <em>my</em> needs, but... well, I dunno why I'm even putting this out there at all. In case anyone's curious, I guess, and because I'm a bit of a narcissist who likes me work to be out there, or something.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://jdyal.webs.com/Mym20.pdf" target="_blank">http://jdyal.webs.com/Mym20.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 6245866, member: 2205"] I haven't really been a regular 'round here in quite some time, but since I've been poking around the last week or so, I thought I'd give a quick and dirty gaming update of what I've been up to. I used to be known, by those few who paid attention to me at all, as a guy who was always looking to houserule d20 into a low magic, "fantasy [I]Call of Cthulhu[/I]" type of paradigm, who wasn't very interested in things like system mastery or tactical combat. For a long time, I modified D&D (3.5) itself with third party and original houserules. Then I wandered into using d20 Modern + d20 Past. I flirted briefly with Pathfinder. I never even looked at 4e, much less played it. (take [I]that[/I], [MENTION=2525]Mistwell[/MENTION]!) Curiously, it was Pathfinder itself that brought an end to that era in my gaming career. Now, I still play d20 of various stripes with my gaming group. But I finally decided that I won't run it again, most likely. I liked many of the things Pathfinder did to update 3.5, but after a while, the sheer, ponderous [I]tediousness[/I] of it all got me down. I probably could have endured 3.5 indefinately, but seeing it "turned up to 11" in terms of tediousness, is what finally convinced me that the many compromises I'd made with the system to cram them into something that my rather esoteric tastes would enjoy weren't what I was looking for after all. I houseruled Old School Hack for a while, but it was too divergent really to ever become my "go-to" system, in spite of the many things I liked about it. But when I belatedly discovered m20, I decided that my Holy Grail search for the Promised System had come to an end. The system promised compatibility with d20, so that I could use, without too much fuss, all of the mountains of monster books and everything else that I had accumulated for that system. But, without all of that complexity. Without bogging things down with minutiae and more rules than I needed. I still need more playtime to test the hypothesis that my m20 variant is sufficient to induce me to stop looking for systems for good, but early results are promising. Anyway, I compiled all the m20 stuff that I wanted to use in my own game, which was a combination of some basic m20 stuff with some of the setting-specific details of m20 Cthulhu and a few other variants. After putting all this together, it occured to me that it wouldn't take much more work to make a [I]completely stand-alone[/I], full-fledged OGL compatible m20 game out of the document. So I did. The majority of the actual work was to type up my introduction to role-playing and roleplaying philosophy type stuff. Which I've helpfully posted here as a teaser. And then, the link to my document. I guess I'm not really looking for feedback, because I'm pretty convinced that this is the system that best meets [I]my[/I] needs, but... well, I dunno why I'm even putting this out there at all. In case anyone's curious, I guess, and because I'm a bit of a narcissist who likes me work to be out there, or something. [url]http://jdyal.webs.com/Mym20.pdf[/url] [/QUOTE]
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