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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 1505910" data-attributes="member: 16077">Well - there are thousands who would beg to differ.  Many of us like AD&D for the fact that it *wasn't* dumbed-down, "balanced," white-bread like 3.x is.If you are talking about the mechanics - how is d20 *any* different than AD&D?  Whether you roll against a THAC0 with negative armor classes or add Atk Bonus to your roll vs. a positive armor class, the mechanic is the same.  After all - adding a negative is subtracting a positive, and vice versa.  The difference is in the math manipulation, not in the "roll dice and beat a target number" mechanic.   Sorry, but I think the hole in your argument is the fact that GURPS was *designed,* from the ground up, to be generic and multi-genre.  d20 games use a ruleset that was *designed,* from the ground up, to be D&D (or some fascimile thereof.) I'll refute your argument - try applying d20's level/class system to a realistic military simulation like Twilight:2000.  You can't do it as well as TW2K's own rules since you can't realistically model the fact that skills may not necessarily improve with an increase in "rank."  For example - I've been in the military (navy - submarine reactor operator) and I've seen plenty of E-4's who were more competent than some E-6's.  In a d20-based simulation of such a situation, the E-6 would be better at his job than the E-4, just because he'd have more level's in his "class."So - once you stray far enough away from any commonality between genre, you *do* have to use different systems.</blockquote>

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