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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1507338" data-attributes="member: 5171">Ditto Psion and JD in all meaningful ways.  As a GM whose PCs just got run down by an Acura in last night's session, I can safely say that a d20 game feels a bit different when you're using different systems.  After going back to D&D after d20 Modern, I was astounded at how relatively little skills could do, and how hard it was to get those skills into really high ranks.  My sixth level PCs all have some skill of +11 or +12, often with additional circumstance bonuses (+3 when used after a minute of observation, +4 when used against members of the opposite gender, etc.).  In D&D, skills simply aren't as important.  Not "Not Important", not by a long stretch, but not as important.  And this is just one difference between two d20 systems -- every d20 game is going to have a wide range of these differences from D&D, unless it was specifically designed not to do so.Fights in M&M are less deadly than fights in D&D are less deadly than fights in d20M are less deadly than fights in CoC.  Rewards are handled differently.  The idea of what makes a character good at what he does (In D&D, primarily his class; in M&M, primarily his powers; in d20M, primarily his feats and skills) is different.  The experience that the players are supposed to have is different -- and yes, that varies from GM to GM, and yes, you can have a D&D game played like a CoC game without any house rules, but the games are designed for fundamentally different reasons.Anyone who says otherwise either played games with the same mediocre or inexperienced GM, or is a mediocre or inexperienced player.</blockquote>

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