Hello,
   The d20 lisence IS rather tricky and subject to revision at the owners descretion (without consulting independant companies that produce d20 products). This along with a completely different character emphasis, and game effects the conversion is much harder than is really worth it.

   I personally dont mind the d20 system itself, but it is a combat oriented system with very little game balence concerning character development. A d20 character with a sin enchantment would really only suffer from an alignment switch (leaning toward evil) and perhaps Wisdom damage. Few d20 players would be intimidated by this when a gelatinous cube is around etc.

   Dragonraid having a d20 lisence would be bad-press over-all. In-fact I think that it would bring people like chic publishing down on dragonraid like a fox on a duckling. Those are folks who dont bother with confirming their sources before making statements. Do you want to see The Evil of Dragonraid tract stuck under your windshield? I sure dont.

   But still, if you want to convert DR to a homebrew game nobody here will stop you (presumably). But you should know that the conversion wont be easy. Classes, Wordrunes, and Sin-enchantment rules would have to be worked up. And if your crew is confused by DR, I am pretty sure that they wont be much help with developing balenced house rules with a munchkin-fest like the d20 system.

-Aaron

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> From: "Scott Newcomb" <snewcomb1@...>
> Date: 2004/01/26 Mon PM 09:00:48 GMT
> To: <dragonraid@...>
> Subject: [DragonRaid] Any thoughts on d20 system
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> Actually one of the biggest problems (as I understand it)is in order to use
> the d20 system you have to agree to use the D&D Players Handbook for
> character creation and there were some other things you had to use from the
> game too but I can't remember what they were.
> 
> Scott Newcomb
> 
> snewcomb1@...
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