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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7712521" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Is it easier to revamp 5E or to revamp AD&amp;D</blockquote>5e.&nbsp; Just less messy.&nbsp;&nbsp; The best bits of GURPS are how well-researched the worldbooks are, and that it's published by someone as capable as Steve Jackson.&nbsp; Stealing him would be kidnapping.&nbsp; But adapting the applicable worldbook should be pretty doable.[/QUOTE]Maybe. The 5E chassis is nice in some ways; I appreciate the fact that you get all the stats for monsters instead of just Intelligence. But it's also very, very combat-centric to the point where I'm practically inventing my own RPG anyway whenever combat isn't happening. 5E is also very married to uniform distributions and d20 rolls as a resolution mechanism to the point where it feels pretty non-idiomatic to do something as simple as say, &quot;The stronger guy wins the arm-wrestling match.&quot; (What, no opposed d20 checks?!) Don't get me started on Perception/Investigation checks either.Currently the main thing keeping me with 5E is, ironically, the fact that I really like the way warriors function in 5E combat; there are lots of fun tactical options for warrior-types and rogue-types during combat--the whole action/reaction/bonus action thing works out really well for them. Not quite as well as GURPS: Martial Arts, but then GURPS: Martial Arts doesn't have Fireball--so 5E functions as kind of a compromise between AD&amp;D and GURPS (with a dash of Shadowrun thrown in at 9th+ level). But there are definitely times when 5E's core idioms try my patience.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7712521, member: 6787650"] Is it easier to revamp 5E or to revamp AD&D[/quote] 5e. Just less messy. The best bits of GURPS are how well-researched the worldbooks are, and that it's published by someone as capable as Steve Jackson. Stealing him would be kidnapping. But adapting the applicable worldbook should be pretty doable.[/QUOTE] Maybe. The 5E chassis is nice in some ways; I appreciate the fact that you get all the stats for monsters instead of just Intelligence. But it's also very, very combat-centric to the point where I'm practically inventing my own RPG anyway whenever combat isn't happening. 5E is also very married to uniform distributions and d20 rolls as a resolution mechanism to the point where it feels pretty non-idiomatic to do something as simple as say, "The stronger guy wins the arm-wrestling match." (What, no opposed d20 checks?!) Don't get me started on Perception/Investigation checks either. Currently the main thing keeping me with 5E is, ironically, the fact that I really like the way warriors function in 5E combat; there are lots of fun tactical options for warrior-types and rogue-types during combat--the whole action/reaction/bonus action thing works out really well for them. Not quite as well as GURPS: Martial Arts, but then GURPS: Martial Arts doesn't have Fireball--so 5E functions as kind of a compromise between AD&D and GURPS (with a dash of Shadowrun thrown in at 9th+ level). But there are definitely times when 5E's core idioms try my patience. [/QUOTE]

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