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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 2399291" data-attributes="member: 19718">if i can throw in my tuppence, i believe that the strength of rules light games is the flavour text. or the price. in other words: there are either less pages in the book (and so it is cheaper), or much more flavour text, random ideas, art, and so on.personally, i love rule light systems, BUT i spent a good amount of money on GURPS books. why? because i feel that GURPS empowers me to create every character i want, for an animated banana, to a futuristic alien race. that is reasonably true with the d20 system, but i think GURPS is way better when it comes to flexibility and ease of use.let me add another thing.the d20 system can be a very precise, but i had to drink loads of coffee to stay awake and read those rules. AD&D was vary less organised and less logical, but even the core books offered me a couple of ideas to incorporate in my campaigns. just check the "ecology" sections of the old monstrous compendia, and appreciate the difference.i am told that the "new generation" of d20 books is more flavour friendly. that might be true, i don't know. if i had to return to D&D/AD&D, though, i would pick up either hackmaster (because there's virtually no conversion work to be done from AD&D, so i could use my old books straight away) or the good old D&D (because, in those days, you wouldn't need to be aware of the effect of a hundred rules (because each spell/ feat/ skill is, in fact, a rule on its own) to run the game... you might say that you don't need to know the effect of every spell or feat in the core books... but then what's the difference between this D&D and the old rule light one?).</blockquote>

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