Post originally by Clayton A. Oliver at 2004-07-13 07:22:22
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You beat me to the punch, Chris. Yes, Mastermind is a toolbox. As a matter of fact, darn near every silver book AEG has published is a toolbox. The point of the incessant rules expansions is to give players and GMs the tools they want to customize their campaigns. The next two Spycraft releases are going to be U.S. Militaries and World Militaries, which have precious little to do with espionage - but they take the core Spycraft engine in a new direction, allowing it to display a little bit of versatility that its critics have been arguing it lacks.

As for the issue of d20 non-compatibility - we've never made a secret of the fact that we consider Spycraft to be a direct competitor of d20 Modern, nor that we consider our rules set to be a more finely-tuned evolution of d20. I really can't think of much that d20M does that we don't do better, aside from functioning as a "generic" system with its fast/strong/uber hero classes - and we've long since released the class balance formulas to allow our fans to create whatever base classes they want for their own games' genres.

- C.