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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1164832" data-attributes="member: 8447">The biggest things going for D&D D20?1)  Name recognition2)  Availablitity3)  Simplicity of mechanics Of these three, the third is the most arguable.  GURPS and WoD both have simple base mechanics (note I said base mechanics) as well.  Equally, both of those systems, as has been seen, are adaptable to a variety of settings; in a lot of ways WotC is scrambling to catch up in that regard.  The D20 system brought me back to D&D, after about 15+ years of ignoring it.  I still find it very, very far from being a perfect system (dislike of hit points, armour class, and alignment as presented), but it is much improved from the overly arcane rigimarole of AD&D 2nd ed.Above all else, however, I found it was easy to get a game of D20 running because it was D&D -- people had heard of it and were willing to give it a go, as opposed to Ars Magica, Blue Planet, or Nobilis, the games I would have preferred to run.So D20 keeps me in gaming, at least.</blockquote>