Re: [DL] D20 ? OTish

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

At 01:21 PM 3/3/2002 -0600, you wrote:
 >I have played many game systems in my time, and love learning new systems.
 >The thing I like best about the D20 system is that it is the easiest system
 >I have ever seen for teaching new players.

Now THIS I have to disagree with.  And I will utilize just one specific at 
this point - Attacks of Opportunity.

For a more general proof - I will point out that my Sunday night DnD game 
is composed of an eclectic lot of old school gamers - grognards, ASL 
veterans, Champions aficionados, gaming devotees who have mastered dozens 
of esoteric systems and even one who claims to understand the byzantine 
rules of Magic:the Crackmongering.

It took this group over 6 months before we stopped having to constantly 
refer to the books to look up this or that esoteric rule.  Even now the 
game manages to get stopped at least once every two or three sessions as we 
have to hit the books to look up what this or that stat/die 
roll/situational/whajamaffut/ modifier is.

 > For those who don't
 >like D20 system, what is your major complaint?

Levels.  Hit points.  Classes.  A combat system that is both complex and 
unrealistic.  The spell system.

Pretty much all the old baggage from the old DnD system that they had to 
retain in order to have some form of backwards compatibility.




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