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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slingbld" data-source="post: 1411371" data-attributes="member: 13229">The Alternity system was a bridge system between the old 2nd ed & the current D20. They used it to test out several conepts in mechanics. There was never any intention to keep the system alive (although they did drop it about 18 months early).When Alternity was introduced, it was as a temporary system. We, the gamers were the largest group playtesters they had. And we had to pay to playtest it to boot. The Final Church & Externals ESD's were originaly meant to be some of the last products released in print form. When the plug was pulled early on the system's life support, they got bumped to ESD status.I learned a lot of this second hand from some people in the Living Greyhawk Triad for Illinois. Two of the three are friends or aquaintences (sic) of the Alternity design team.  Although knowing why they poopcanned it hasn't made me feel any better about the fact they did poopcan it  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /></blockquote>