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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 648514" data-attributes="member: 6092">Conversions aren't evilCH:  Good to see you!  It has been a while!  I just think that d20 is inflated, over inflated in fact, in its own importance.  I personally don't think that d20 is the best game mechanic system out there, nor the best game system.  It might be the simplest, and therefore most appealing to new players, but it isn't the best.  It is therefore disappointing to me when it is flooding the market and other gaming companies can't get support for their good games with out doing a d20 conversion.  The Buffy RPG is very good example of this.  It is a very good system but I don't know how you can convert it and get the "feel" of the Buffy show with d20.  This, of course, assumes that you think that game systems have different feels.  I like the mechanics of Buffy RPG a lot (I mention it as it is a current game and so supported, as compared to Alternity, which is no longer supported.) but I see that Eden Studios also has d20 stuff.  Probably so they CAN do other games like their Unisystem games.  Wouldn't that be like being a UNIX or Mac shop but doing Windows applications to pay the bills?  By the same token, I just don't think that d20, and the d20 system, can do everything.  Different systems really help with the feel of a world.  Game mechanics also influence role playing.  And since not everyone wants a heroic system, d20 won't do it.  I agree when you say that it doesn't limit my ability to play nor does it ruin the books I already have.  I just don't think d20 is the best system out there for game mechanics and find it too bad when companies have to have a d20 division to do the other products they want to do.  No, not all of them.  No this isn't universal.  Yes, this is all just my opinion.  No, I am not down on d20 in general, only in that I don't think it does non heroic systems well (skill based vs class based).  Yes, I will still be playing DND and enjoy it.  I am a nit picker.  That means that I enjoy something and will keep using it but I then also notice, and will point out, its flaws.  Yes, d20 Modern does address some issues of heroism with its lowered MDT but it doesn't address a person fighting until 0 hit points at full ability, etc.  Again, I am not down on these systems.  I like and will continue to play DND.  I would love an opportunity to play d20 Modern as I really like what I read of GeneTech (updated Dark*Matter?) in Dungeon.  I am just nit picking.  [[trying to get most objections covered in that last paragraph but I am sure I missed a couple.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  ]]edg</blockquote>

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