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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shawn_Kehoe" data-source="post: 3509507" data-attributes="member: 21894">Yeah, Chaosium really fouled-up on the D20 movement. The CoC D20 book was one of the slickest productions of its day, but support was minimal - the dual-stat sourcebooks mentioned above, plus I believe some kind of combined Keeper Screen / rule expansion. According to the reviews I read, the implementation of the CoC d20 rules in that product were poor.I agree that Chaosium appeared to let their fondness for their own system blind them to to the potential of the d20 one. A status update on Pulp Cthulhu from a few years back read something like "the book will no longer be d20, as that boat has sailed. Besides, everyone prefers BRP anyways." It reminds me of a local game shop owner, who only stocks GURPS products because he played GURPS in the 90's, and doesn't want to educate himself on the market now.Also, the established fanbase of the BRP system bears some blame. Many so-called Chaosium supporters were treating the d20 version like it was infectious, telling anyone who wandered onto their forums to stay away from it and stick with BRP. Even friends of mine who played CoC in college were badmouthing my copy of d20 Cthulhu and saying that they wouldn't want to play it that way - without ever looking at the book. Ironically, this has probably served to accelerate the eventual demise of CoC, whenever that may occur.Shawn</blockquote>