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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 636117" data-attributes="member: 6092">Give games a chance!Greetings!I completely agree that game mechanics help give a game a "feel".  This feel can't be replicated by everything being d20.  I understand the need for things to be d20, because then they are supported and you can use other sources for ideas without too much conversion.  I find it funny, to myself, that I like most things Windows (gets ready to duck) but I don't like that d20 is apparently dominating the rpg scene.  I liked reading and learning other systems for the feel.  To add to this, I wouldn't want to see a Shadowrun d20 conversion.  Using what is still available for Shadowrun, it seems to be that a campaign could be done for years and years to come.  In my experience of Shadowrun, mostly 1E and 3E, it seems a lot of emphasis changed in 3E.  I don't know if it was for more realism but it seemed in 3E that if a character didn't wear armor, nearly the first shot killed them every time.  Also, I didn't prefer it that damage was universal.  In other words, all character got the same damage indicator, regardless of attributes.  I might be remembering that wrong. TeeSeeJay:  Um, okay, feeling very defensive here.  Alternity is NOT DND in space.  I don't know if I can say that enough.  Buck Rogers was DND in space.  Alternity was a completely different system.  It doesn't have levels and the concept of classes is only slightly there in how skills are purchased.  I still find Alternity to be the best game system I have read or played and have yet to find a genre or setting that it couldn't do and do well.  That's me, though.  YMMVedg</blockquote>

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