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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ottergame" data-source="post: 2105130" data-attributes="member: 9326">Actually there was a huge fear among L5R fans (myself included) that if the d20 system caught on, AEG would drop their in house system in favor of continuing the d20 books.Thankfully that wasn't the case, because d20 did a rather poor job of keeping the "Rokugan" feeling that was in the L5R game.  The books were well written fluff wise, and I own a few of them, but d20 utterly failed to capture the same atmosphere that was in the in house system.In the end, all in managed to do was dilute the overall quality of the material, slowed the release schedule for the real game, and divided the community a bit over the 2 very different games.  And THAT's the big fear people have of FanPro making a SRd20 book.  That it will make the quality suffer, that it will slow the book schedule, and that it will divide the community.I don't think any SR supporters have a problem with Joe Smith making a homebrew SRd20 system, it's with FanPro doing it, and end the end only harming Shadowrun.</blockquote>