Re: ooooo... traveller... (was: [ogf-d20-l] Everything old is new again department...)

[Marizhavashti Kali]

lizard wrote:
> 
> Of course, given that a nearly universal statement is that GURPS
> worldbooks are of value even to people who don't play GURPS, the
> inclusion of D20 conversion notes in future worldbooks does not strike
> me as wholly implausible, depending on what form the D20 STL finally
> takes and any aesthetic issues SJ might have.

That's part of it. People who purchased GURPS worldbooks to use without
GURPS itself will continue to do so. 

> GURPS Rome, Aztecs,
> Ancient China, Japan, or Russia, for example, might gain 'crossover'
> sales if D20 stats were included (The gladiator Prestige Class! Spells
> for priests of Quetzle...Quetsil..Qwetzil...the feathered snake dude!

Quetzalcouatl.

> Katana-wielding Lakotas baking biscuits!). I'd expect NOT to see this in
> 'genre' books, as swashbucklers or western merit a full D20 sourcebook
> all their own. But if the bulk of the text is purely
> historical/informational, not rulesish....

Right.

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