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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 314713" data-attributes="member: 1620">This is a highly speculative assumption on your part. Using myself as an example, and I highly doubt that I am atypical, I have a lot more game systems than just d20 on my shelves. In fact, I'm running a FRed game at the moment with plans to start up a Chaosium CoC game afterwards, despite the fact that I'm currently writing a number of d20 products. I've yet to meet a gamer who wasn't at least willing to look at another game system, but when they see a d20 logo on a product, that logo gives rise to certain expectations of how the product may be used. Besides, I think that even if the gamers are &quot;pro-d20, anti-everything else&quot; as you are saying, that doesn't make their opinion any less valid as they would still represent a portion of the market.As for your comments about people bringing characters and compatability, again I'd have to say you're making an assumption. First, if they were all showing up to play in the same genre then it is highly likely the characters would be almost entirely compatible (if not necessarily balanced), but of course they wouldn't be fully compatible if someone showed up with a fantasy character, someone else with a sci-fi alien, another with a gunslinger, and so on, but if they are built closely enough around the same mechanics, these problems can be solved in a few minutes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steve Conan Trustrum, post: 314713, member: 1620"] This is a highly speculative assumption on your part. Using myself as an example, and I highly doubt that I am atypical, I have a lot more game systems than just d20 on my shelves. In fact, I'm running a FRed game at the moment with plans to start up a Chaosium CoC game afterwards, despite the fact that I'm currently writing a number of d20 products. I've yet to meet a gamer who wasn't at least willing to look at another game system, but when they see a d20 logo on a product, that logo gives rise to certain expectations of how the product may be used. Besides, I think that even if the gamers are "pro-d20, anti-everything else" as you are saying, that doesn't make their opinion any less valid as they would still represent a portion of the market. As for your comments about people bringing characters and compatability, again I'd have to say you're making an assumption. First, if they were all showing up to play in the same genre then it is highly likely the characters would be almost entirely compatible (if not necessarily balanced), but of course they wouldn't be fully compatible if someone showed up with a fantasy character, someone else with a sci-fi alien, another with a gunslinger, and so on, but if they are built closely enough around the same mechanics, these problems can be solved in a few minutes. [/QUOTE]

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