Here’s an observation, neither novel nor groundbreaking. d20 in it’s current incarnation will never be a good system for non-dungeon crawling (i.e., search for traps, get treasure, kill bad guys).
\nIt boils down to search time. Your To Hit and Armor Class bonuses are prefigured, as are your Damage dice and Skills.
\nSearch Time to hit a bad guy? If I haven’t memorized it, it’s a glance at the character sheet.
\nOne PC decides to subdue and bind a bad guy, rather than kill ’em.
\nWhat happens?
\nSeveral people flipping through books, GM jokes about being taken by surprise and unready for non-lethal action from the players. Search Time is quin-trebles.
\nD20 suffers from selling itself as a universal system — when you try to do anything other than killing or skill checks, you’ve just doubled or tripled (or worse) the search time.
\nThe game encourages<\/i> XP rewards for finding alternate and creative solutions, but doing these things is such a pain in the ass it’s not worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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