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To be honest, I LOVE C&C and, at this point, prefer it to any other version of D&D but, at first, had some trepidations about it. The game begs to be houseruled and cleaned up in lots o' places. As for you, Delta, I'd say give it a shot with the D&D 3.5 DCs in place of CBs and try to get used...

Hey Delta, I use a Challenge base of 15 for your average difficulty task. As such, when rolling a d20, you need to roll a 15 or better. If using a Prime attribute you get a +5 to that roll. You also add your level to the your roll, unless you are doing something not associated with your...

Ooops... double post. See below

Very true. My Saturday group is continuing our 3.5 Scarred Lands campaign. My Sunday group is about to start up a 3.5 Eberron or Forgotten Realms game and a Castles & Crusades game. For us 3.5/OGL gaming is the only option! I REALLY have high hopes for Pathfinder but, so far, have not been...

I know that I'm getting about a dozen books for D&D 3.5 this Christmas... so my wife and family are contributing towards any the possible "sales spike" in 3.X/OGL products. :)

Excellent idea! I'm sure this'll make those sticking with 3.5 happy.

I dig the Planescape eladrin (due, largely, to Tony Di Terlizzi's awesome art).

I'll admit to buying the Complete series of class books in order to have access to PrCs that would "ramp up" the power level of my PCs. It's funny because I NEVER liked prestige classes and felt that the designers should have developed a feat system that allowed characters to build their...

I just copied and emailed your post to a bunch of people who won't play my variant rules (or can't play due to my inability to get an interested group together). It's nice to know that my work is appreciated! Thanks for the kind words and, hopefully, your group enjoys my houserules a lot.

My wife used to game, when we first started dating. That ended after a few months. :(

I'm glad you feel that way... really. If you were gaming with one of my groups or the one that my brother is in, I'd feel bad for you because you would be in a tough spot as the ONLY person with any interest in playing 4th edition. Sadly, your assertion that "4E has removed the bad choices, so...

I guess my years of playing 3rd edition, Castles & Crusades, and the other d20 OGL games I have played (Conan, Iron Heroes, Mutants & Masterminds, and a few others) spoiled me. Each game covered the bases it needed to cover with the "core books". 4th edition didn't. For its time AD&D worked...

My group has played a few sessions using the PHB, DMG and MM for 4th edition and feel that the game is not complete. It feels like a rushed product with a dearth of "real" options for players. Yes there are lots of nifty powers and divergent paths for character classes, but these options felt...

This is a BIG part of what kept me, and every player I know, away from 4th edition. With 3rd edition we felt we had a complete, though somewhat bland, game with 3 books. With 4th edition it feels like WotC deliberately spread out what should be core info into many books, so that you don't have...

My group is still playing 3.5. None of us are plan on ever moving on to 4th edition. At the same time we're not planning on moving on to Pathfinder. If the final Pathfinder rules are a lot more in line with 3.5 than the Beta rules (which has too many tweaks to races and classes, for instance)...

Taken from State of the Mongoose 2008: ------------------------------------------------------ Dungeons & Dragons 4e The fourth edition is something of an odd duck for us, and it is no secret that sales thus far have been somewhat behind those for third edition. The game itself is very different...

Agreed. Castles & Crusades sounds like the best (but not a perfect) fit.

Multiclassing (particularly when it came to casters), rules for DR, prestige classes (rather than feat trees that allowed your to build PrC type classes from the core classes) and the oodles of stacking effects.

Thanks for all of the suggestion Darrins, JMucchiello, Dragonblade and Voadam. Kerrick and Raven Crowking: Good luck with your 3.X variants... I'll definitely check on in them as you post stuff.

It certainly is and, for a while, I was very excited about its release. As more and more "power ups" and rule tweaks that didn't necessarily facilitate faster game play were tacked on my excitement level dropped significantly.