Real reason why nobody was GM-ing D&D in my teen group back in the day was that we were all too broke to afford 3 books and then all the rest. So we played Warhammer FRPG, Vampire and other games claiming that you could play it with a single book (Well Vampire was just pretening it)

And that’s how I ended not really playing D&D

I didn’t see a way for the pool to get higher than 16.

16 is so few, they took all the fun out of shadowrun, people want to roll moar D6 :) /s

Joke aside it’s great to have a lighter alternative to shadowrun, the lore is great but the full rules are often too heavy especially for more casual/story driven play