>Ask yourself this: is the gamer better off? I dont >think anyone can say anything other than YES.
"is the D&D gamer better off" "YES" ok, i'll buy that. but this thread has also been discussing several of the other open and not-so-open games (and thus gamers). *i'm* no better off than before the D20STL. i *might* even be worse off--if some publishers devote efforts to rules-intensive D20 supplements that hold no interest for me, when they were going to use that effort for something that would interest me; or if they alter a product in ways that make it poorer from my POV, in order to make it work as a D20 product. so far, i don't think this has happened (though i'm waiting to see the Farscape game), but it is certainly a distinct possibility. actually, that reminds me: i'm more than a bit surprised that we have seen very few or no no-rules D20 products. i'd have expected all those "generic" supplements of yore to have been resurrected as "D20" products, with nary a change. frex, the Central Casting books. closest i'm aware of is the Slayers' Guides--maybe a page of rules, all collected in one place, in a 32p book. -- woodelf <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/ If any religion is right, maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. --Sinclair _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
