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Message: <blockquote data-quote="whisper_jeff" data-source="post: 422883" data-attributes="member: 6370">Almost accurate. Well, actually, that might be exactly accurate but it isn't accurate to I should have said if that is in fact what I said that.      A great deal of effort was made to ensure the systems were compatible to facilitate dual-statting _but,_ as anyone who has looked at the two systems closely will note, they were amazingly similar thus facilitating this process. If one system had a +2 bonus for a given situation, I found that the other had a similar +2 bonus. I believe there were only a handful (and not a full one at that) of incidents where the Tri-Stat modifier and the d20 modifier for a given situation were not the exact same. When they were different, we obviously went with the d20 modifier but found them identical often enough that it was not a major issue, making compatiblity for dual-statting very easy. Also, due to the similarities between the modifiers, it made me confident that I did not need to change other modifiers for rules that d20 did not cover (ie: called shots) since, using all the other similarities as a basis, they probably would have been the same had they already existed in d20.     As for the Tri-Stat-isms slipping through the editing process.... Well, we do have egg on our faces regarding that. Obviously, a lot of the material was taken from the Tri-Stat manuscript and converted to the d20 system (duh!) and, sadly, the tight production schedule allowed some stupid, minor editing foibles to slip through. There are just enough to be annoying, from my perspective. In most cases, they appear in the character write-ups in the back of the book which were done last, once the system was finished but very shortly before the book was sent to press. That is why the problem occured - I didn't want to convert the characters until the system was finalized and we were working on the system material up until about two weeks before the book went to press. One more week would have made all the difference in the world...     Anyhow, editing mistakes? Yup. They are there. They don't break the book, but they are annoying. Casual system conversion? Nope. Don't ever think that it was a casual process - a great deal of time and thought was put into converting Silver Age Sentinels Tri-Stat to SAS d20 (no, not the British Special Forces <grin>).</blockquote>

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