 Why D20 sucks, Vent here on why you dislike d20 |
 Oct 21 2003, 03:32 PM
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My reason #1 why I dislike the D20 system.
The D20 standard is an attempt by WotC to make all roleplaying games clones of D&D in order to sell more of their books. If you play D20 then you will play D&D at least once. |
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Buzzed Why D20 sucks Oct 21 2003, 03:32 PM
Tanka It's not like D20 is that bad. It has it... Oct 21 2003, 03:35 PM Adam QUOTE (Buzzed) The D20 standard is an attempt by W... Oct 21 2003, 03:37 PM TinkerGnome DnD 3.5 was planned from the time 3.0 hit the shel... Oct 21 2003, 05:15 PM Digital Heroin You know, I've yet to see a reason to hate the... Oct 21 2003, 06:44 PM MYST1C I simply don't like systems with fixed charact... Oct 21 2003, 08:04 PM TinkerGnome I think it's less of "I hate d20 as a sys... Oct 21 2003, 08:12 PM Buzzed Slicing a low level pc with a blade does huge dama... Oct 22 2003, 03:32 AM Bull Anyone who knows me knows that I have series issue... Oct 22 2003, 03:40 AM DigitalMage I have only played a couple of D20 games and am ju... Oct 22 2003, 09:35 AM Swansonegger QUOTE (Buzzed) The D20 hit point system where you ... Oct 22 2003, 01:35 PM DigitalMage @Swansonegger - This is why I mentioned the Hit Po... Oct 22 2003, 01:58 PM TinkerGnome It's worth pointing out that a hero of any lev... Oct 22 2003, 02:01 PM XON2000 I have no problem with the idea of a "univers... Oct 22 2003, 02:41 PM JongWK I dislike Class systems, at least they allowed for... Oct 22 2003, 04:04 PM Adam To run the game. I've been playing 3e for abou... Oct 22 2003, 04:17 PM JongWK They don't give a SRD for the MM as far as I k... Oct 22 2003, 04:41 PM JongWK The weird thing is that I keep defending D&D i... Oct 22 2003, 04:46 PM Adam QUOTE They don't give a SRD for the MM as far ... Oct 22 2003, 04:53 PM TinkerGnome JongWK, a lot of the issues you list are issues mo... Oct 22 2003, 04:59 PM JongWK I stand corrected, the SRD does include the basic ... Oct 22 2003, 05:38 PM TinkerGnome AEG has been one of the companies with the best id... Oct 22 2003, 06:19 PM Tanka The "hack-and-slash" method that a lot o... Oct 22 2003, 08:42 PM Swansonegger To say that D20 promotes hack-n-slash while other ... Oct 23 2003, 01:52 PM Tanka Again, this is dependant on the GM. In my view, S... Oct 23 2003, 04:20 PM Catsnightmare I also say bullshit to promoting hack & slash,... Oct 24 2003, 01:57 AM Tanka You see, that may just be your GM who's doing ... Oct 24 2003, 02:06 AM JongWK D&D: "Ho ho, the village guards want us t... Oct 24 2003, 01:33 PM Swansonegger QUOTE (JongWK)D&D: "Ho ho, the village gu... Oct 24 2003, 09:20 PM easytohate I take full responsabillty for all of the games I ... Oct 30 2003, 08:47 PM vebor QUOTE (Bull)
2) Collects the bad Games in a sing... Oct 30 2003, 10:24 PM nezumi I agree that the players make the game, but the ga... Oct 30 2003, 11:10 PM TinkerGnome QUOTE (nezumi @ Oct 30 2003, 07:10 PM) Exampl... Oct 30 2003, 11:23 PM Tanka Thing is, the sleeping Troll might just have a Bod... Oct 31 2003, 02:53 AM Dim Sum D20 rawks! Anyone who says different will face... Oct 31 2003, 04:19 AM nezumi Firstly, yes, you're right, I edited my exampl... Oct 31 2003, 01:14 PM Pistons QUOTE (nezumi) I agree that the players make the g... Oct 31 2003, 02:11 PM Tanka Taking into account that when I talk about attribu... Oct 31 2003, 02:30 PM Swansonegger QUOTE (nezumi)Example 2: There's always ... Nov 1 2003, 05:04 PM Tanka I'll say this, pure and simple: D20 is fun in ... Nov 2 2003, 05:43 AM bwdemon I have no problem at all with the d20 system. In ... Nov 2 2003, 04:34 PM TinkerGnome QUOTE (bwdemon) It isn't the best, I reserve t... Nov 2 2003, 05:04 PM lodestar I have to admit my biggest beef about the D20 syst... Nov 9 2003, 12:07 AM HolyTrinity This is a little late, but to bring up the Town wa... Nov 11 2003, 04:06 AM lodestar Case in point, last night we played a one shot D... Nov 11 2003, 06:24 PM Swansonegger QUOTE (lodestar) Case in point, last night we play... Nov 11 2003, 10:36 PM nezumi Alright, to reply to HolyTrinity... I have tried p... Nov 12 2003, 01:58 PM Adam QUOTE (lodestar) Case in point, last night we play... Nov 12 2003, 07:04 PM lodestar Part of the problem as well with the D20 system as... Nov 12 2003, 07:57 PM Adam Good points; as a fan of skill-based systems, I ty... Nov 12 2003, 08:55 PM DigitalMage D20 Star Wars has Degrees of success on p70 of the... Nov 13 2003, 11:44 AM JongWK A friend of mine house-ruled that a "20... Nov 13 2003, 02:42 PM vitus979 QUOTE (lodestar @ Nov 12 2003, 07:57 PM) Part... Nov 14 2003, 05:12 PM vitus979 QUOTE (nezumi @ Oct 30 2003, 11:10 PM) Exampl... Nov 14 2003, 05:28 PM vitus979 For some reason my replies are coming through weir... Nov 14 2003, 05:43 PM lodestar OK first I just didn't like the system, to eac... Nov 25 2003, 05:39 PM Swansonegger Hey, the Box has to make room for what sells I gue... Nov 26 2003, 10:25 PM Adam I'd agree; from the few times I've been th... Nov 26 2003, 10:34 PM lodestar It does still have some stuff but not much is left... Nov 26 2003, 11:04 PM Plastic Rat I think Bull's reply sums things up pretty muc... Nov 28 2003, 05:44 AM Adam A monopoly? You mean the company I work for doesn... Nov 28 2003, 06:18 AM Plastic Rat Symantecs symantecs...damnit, you know what I mean... Nov 28 2003, 06:26 AM Adam Not on this side of the world. Tomorrow, work, Fri... Nov 28 2003, 06:33 AM Pistons QUOTE (Plastic Rat @ Nov 28 2003, 01:26 AM) S... Nov 28 2003, 05:29 PM Synner QUOTE (Pistons) QUOTE (Plastic Rat @ Nov 28 2... Nov 28 2003, 06:05 PM Adam Well, it's actually the name of the company th... Nov 28 2003, 06:46 PM Plastic Rat I think I'll start posting in chinese, at leas... Nov 29 2003, 03:44 AM Swansonegger QUOTE (Adam)Does Tramps on.. err.. McLeod Trail, I... Nov 29 2003, 03:59 AM DanJ I personally dont really hate the d20 system altho... Nov 29 2003, 04:12 AM Adam Well, Call of Cthulthu is still being published us... Nov 29 2003, 04:36 AM Ancient History The heavily modified d20 system used by Mutants an... Nov 29 2003, 05:09 AM Scarab QUOTE (Ancient History) The heavily modified d20 s... Nov 30 2003, 07:26 AM Pistons Actually, M&M is based more off of the materia... Nov 30 2003, 06:13 PM Ancient History Essentially M&M is d20 Lite. No classes, DnD-... Nov 30 2003, 06:20 PM Adam QUOTE (Pistons) Actually, M&M is based more of... Dec 1 2003, 05:35 AM DigitalMage Indeed Godlrush games have released their Action... Dec 1 2003, 11:46 AM
bwdemon QUOTE (Ancient History) Plus, the most flexible su... Dec 4 2003, 04:49 PM  |
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