Re: [WW] How to make the D20 system better

[Scott Hinkley <revhines@yahoo.com>]

Ok...pardon my ignorance, but what are Button Men?


--- Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com> wrote:
>  >What my complaint is that some people might like
> D&D, but do like Wierd Wars
>  >or Deadlands D20.  Now if they want to run it and
> want to go by the official
>  >OG license, they should have to spend 85 dollars
> just to get the core of a
>  >game.  Now I understand that 85 isnt that bad to
> start, to get into
>  >Deadlands 2nd edition you need to spend around 60
> but at least you know that
>  >your going to use the majority of the books.
> 
> One small flaw in this.
> 
> I feel reasonably certain that is you took a random
> group of 100 gamers you 
> would find that 75 of them already own the D20 DnD
> books.
> 
> Heck, I loathe the mechanics, I have issues with
> WotC, but I own the three 
> core books myself.
> 
>  >To you realize if a company other then the ruins
> of TSR tried this they
>  >would have been laughed out of the market.
> 
> No doubt about it.  But there is a big bonus to
> being the first in a market.
> 
> Or maybe not.  Look at the proliferation of Button
> Men.  Last year at 
> GenCon nearly everyone was putting them out.  That's
> because the licencing 
> was so relatively cheap it was almost Open Source
> itself.
> 
> -------------------
> Allan Seyberth
> darious@darious.com
> Deadlands fan site - http://www.darious.com/
> 
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