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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1339742" data-attributes="member: 5171">I agree that the d20 system tends to standardize things.  That's one of its goals.Perhaps if I were playing with a group of drama people (and I'm not saying that in an "ew, drama people" way -- my wife is a drama person, so I do like 'em), I'd prefer a system that allowed me to make more rulings on the fly.d20, however, makes it easier for me to be fair and evenhanded.  I run a lower risk of getting yelled at for alleged favoritism of one player over another (always letting one guy's cinematic plans work brilliantly and giving the other a flat "no") because the rules do most of the work for me.That said, now that my group knows the rules well, we're having some wonderful cinematic combat, and things are much freer and looser in feeling, because we all know what we're doing.I'm also playing with computer geeks (and I'm not saying that in an "ew, computer geeks" way -- they're all my buddies, so I do like 'em), and as such, I don't have to worry much about rules stuff.  Computer geeks learn systems quickly (in my experience).</blockquote>