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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d4" data-source="post: 1373540" data-attributes="member: 12699">yes.even if i were to use a heaping helping of variant rules from UA so that i ended up with something that was, as you put it, closer to "GURPS with classes" than core D&D, it would still have elements of d20 that i like present and have elements of GURPS that i don't like absent.the only Unearthed Arcana-like books for GURPS are the two Compendia, which however do not move GURPS in the direction of the game i desire in the way that UA moves d20.so it would still, for me, be better to play a UA-modified version of d20 than a Compendia-modified version of GURPS.(as far as i know, the other systems you quoted don't even have books of alternate rules, so they are even less useful to me.)the next obvious question would be why don't i just make up my own system or modify the rules myself? while i love working on settings and other worldbuilding details, i hate creating rules. i like worldbuilding, but i don't like game design. so i prefer to leave that in the hands of the professionals. <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=":)" /></blockquote>