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Best D20 Game Ever?

Started by RPGPundit, July 17, 2013, 02:28:52 PM

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RPGPundit

July 17, 2013, 02:28:52 PM
So, with many years of hindsight now, I wanted to know what game you guys think was the best D20 RPG ever made?

For the sake of this thread, let's not count D&D 3.5 (or Pathfinder).

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July 17, 2013, 02:31:10 PM
Mutants and Masterminds.

Endless Flight

#2
July 17, 2013, 02:35:00 PM
I'll go with Star Wars Saga Edition.

Zachary The First

#3
July 17, 2013, 02:35:54 PM
For convention play, I'll go with the Microlite line of RPGs and supplements.
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#4
July 17, 2013, 02:39:35 PM
d20 Traveller

If the OSR can be counted, because they would not exist without the d20 OGL, then I would say Labyrinth Lord.
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MoonHunter

#5
July 17, 2013, 02:54:21 PM
Technically, my favorite D20 system is True 20... but.. that kind of skirts the rules. That would be followed by D20 Spycraft. Again, skirting the rules.

My favorite D20 Game is the Original D20 Wheel of Time.  It does the magic system justice.

My favorite D20 Setting is Midnight.
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#6
July 17, 2013, 02:55:27 PM
I'll go with Fantasy Craft.

(but Mutants and Masterminds was a close call)

mcbobbo

#7
July 17, 2013, 02:58:42 PM
So many ways to go with "best".  I'm a bit stumped, actually.

For favorite, I think Weird Wars.  But we only played it once.
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#8
July 17, 2013, 03:29:32 PM
I'll go with Call of Cthulhu d20 myself.  Some damn fine writing in the book, some interesting changes to d20 to fit with the genre, and I actually used it, where I didn't use a lot of other d20 books that ended up in my shelves, holding up dust.
 

Emperor Norton

#9
July 17, 2013, 03:41:52 PM
Mutants and Masterminds 3e for what goes the furthest into making it its own thing rather than just being another d20 game.

FantasyCraft for the best Fantasy D20 ruleset.

Star Wars Saga Edition for... well I just put it up at the top with the other two.

Those are the three I consider the "Best" d20 games. (and coincidentally, the only 3 I ever get excited to run/play)

King of Old School

#10
July 17, 2013, 03:46:53 PM
A tie between M&M2e and Star Wars Saga Edition. I'd just about kill for a generic variant of SWSE that addressed some of that game's balance issues...

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YourSwordisMine

#11
July 17, 2013, 03:56:56 PM Last Edit: July 17, 2013, 04:01:16 PM by YourSwordisMine
Mutants and Masterminds 2e
Star Wars Saga

I cant think of any other d20 system that did it as well as those two. M&M2e more so.

EDIT: I would also have to add The Wheel of Time d20 book to my list. It was fairly well done, especially the "magic" system.
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#12
July 17, 2013, 03:57:48 PM
For a d20 game, my choice would be Slaine d20. I would choose Star Wars Saga Edition, as it is technically a d20 game but only because it is owned by WotC. Otherwise it would have been OGL.

In terms of OGL games, I would vote for Mutants and Masterminds, Blue Rose and A Game of Thrones.

Looking above, nearly every response is an OGL game, not a d20 one. I guess that says something about the quality of d20 games :)

Emperor Norton

#13
July 17, 2013, 04:02:49 PM
Quote from: Skywalker;671699For a d20 game, my choice would be Slaine d20. I would choose Star Wars Saga Edition, as it is technically a d20 game but only because it is owned by WotC. Otherwise it would have been OGL.

In terms of OGL games, I would vote for Mutants and Masterminds, Blue Rose and A Game of Thrones.

Looking above, nearly every response is an OGL game, not a d20 one. I guess that says something about the quality of d20 games :)

You are going to have to do an overview of what you consider a d20 game, because all the ones listed are very d20.

Bradford C. Walker

#14
July 17, 2013, 05:09:11 PM
Spycraft.
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