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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1184711" data-attributes="member: 10201">D20 System is as big as it is not because it's awesome, but because of the D20STL and D20SRD, and ecause it's the system used in D&D.  It could be awesome, but that's not why it's so popular.  IMHO, it is merely sufficient--there's not that much wrong with it, so it doesn't matter if there's much that is awesome about it.In short, no i can't pinpoint the strengths, or, rather, those strengths aren't in the mechanics themselves.  It's not better than the competition, though it might not be worse than the competition, either (depending on what you're comparing to)--it's merely good enough.Also, after looking around, i'd say that D&D3E, D&D3.5E, and D20 Modern are fairly poor implementations of D20 System.  Spycraft, Call of Cthulhu D20, Traveller D20, Mutants & Masterminds, and BESM D20 are all far superior instantiations of the underlying D20 System elements.  Great stuff can be done with D20 System--D&D isn't an example of this.</blockquote>