D20 has always been a rather problematic and not well thought out system. The only reason its so common is because it was the first, thus is the go to example for people outside the hobby who just want to namedrop a PnP Rpg and because it has a large gaming company behind it while all competitors are smaller and often independent studios.
The D20 has such a high range of possible values that it drowns out any form of modifier, making mist actions basically just coin flips. Especially in 5E where the size of modifiers got limited.
Last edited by Ixal; 14/12/23 01:53 PM.
