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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgard" data-source="post: 3309331" data-attributes="member: 4157">I agree; there is room for other systems and other systems are probably better for some designers to get their vision of the roleplaying of their ideas done so that they feel comfortable.However another consideration is how well the designers want or need to do financially.  Sometimes you have to bury the ego and go with what is best for the business.  I personally think that Serenity and the Atlantis game (Omni system IIRC) could have easily been designed to use D20 or at least OGL.  I know I would have sold more of each if the games had been D20.  Compare that to Mongoose's Conan which has sold well...it's OGL/D20 based and I'll bet that it has sold better than the GURPS version.Now I know that what sold in my store doesn't necessarily accurately depict what gamers are buying everywhere else.  I'm not sure how much it would cost the non-D20 designers to do this, but conversion pdfs posted at their sites to convert to D20 would help sales. Thanks,Rich</blockquote>