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What I especially like, is that it's a conscise system, where everything works along the same lines (PCs-NPCs-Monsters) and has rules for creating virtually anything. Yes, others might find it stiffling and too much, but I appreciate highly that inner consistency and that after understadning the...

We're playing it currently (the 3.5 version to be fair), with some extensions homebrewed, or lifted/conversed from Pathfinder 1e (like how ranger combat styles work, bringing in sorcerer bloodlines, tweaking/adding a couple of feats, that sort of stuff), but overall, I realized again, that it is...

While I could get behind the notiont hat they pointedly wanted a common baseline for the game, over all, I much prefer the sheer weight of imagination that went into the 2e products (while I never even played 2e, outside the BG/ISD games), that gave us those wonderfull settings, novels and...

I don't want to badmouth 5e, or your taste, it's not even really targeted at you specifically. But I never really got to understand why people are oh-so-enamored with 5e's illustrations. Sure, it has good pieces and the books look good in person, yeah, and okay, it's more diverse in...

Strangely, I never felt 3.x restricting evil PCs. Yes, the core book encouraged good and neutral ones, but for me, that was normal and expected, due to the fantasy genre. We're not playing vampires in a cutthroat setting, or morally ambiguous freelancers in a distopian world (which I also like...

So, they finally did what 3.5 did fifteen years ago and what PF turned up to eleven? Clap-clap-clap. On the flip side, when it gets final, it might alleviate one of my biggest problems with 5e on the whole, namely, the dearth of character costumization after level 2-3 within a lot of classes.

Thank you Ed, it was, again, a great read, I' really looking forward to your Realms articles! We've started a new Realms campaign a few months ago, after a long Shadowrun one and your writings are great to read alongside with the old sourcebooks, as my FR Enthusiasm rekindled. :)

Thank you for the insights. 3.5 is still my favorite version of D&D so far and we're playing it regularly as our go-to for fantasy gaming.

Never mind, the whole "sea-lioning", in my oppinion, is an excuse for not having to actually defend your oppinion and also in my oppinion, one of the most toxic tropes people use un discussions nowadays.

And sometimes that implication is just false.

Thank you, yes, exactly. It's not wanting to be inconsiderate. It's that I believe the X-card and similar tools (especially a checklist...) is just not a good tool to address personal issues around the table. They might be necessary in certain environments, but again, if so, I would already...

You're missig the point deliberately and/or skipped my earlier comment altogether. And yes, I do think trying to replace communication and caring about the reactions of the other people around the table with safe buttons is a certain kind of infantilism and not a good direction. Also, feeling...

At the same time, 2e gave us the wonderfull settings, which 3e continued and improved upon (or not, depends), for which, I'd be always gratefull, even if I started with 3e, as that was the D&D of my youth. Also, to be honest, I didn't realy liked either 4e, nor 5e (though I'm more willing to...

Wholeheartedly agree. Not being a fan of these tools is no way equals to not wanting to be considerate toward my fellow players.

Nice try. :D I have issues, I have to deal with panic attacks. Everyone I've ever played showed understanding and good behaviour and I never felt the need for these tools. You just can't devise tools that could (or, IMO should) replace communication between players, general good behaviour and...

All I want to say is that I'm happy I never played with people who couldn't talk out if there was a problem. Also, I can't even remember a time, where there were a "problem" even. Honestly, I think this whole thing is another facet of the hypersensitivity and infantilism that haunts the...

Yeah, though it's even more unique, since it's in Hungarian, as the 3e FRCSG came out in my language too. It also has countless signs of wear-and-tear, which brings back many memories. :) At some point, I think I'll remove it somehow, repair some of the tears and laminate it in a print shop...

Heh, the poster map that came with it is still on my wall. I don't dare moving it, because the ink will peel off fot the slightest folding of the paper. Honestly, there were two seminal moments in my early rpg history. The first was getting the 3e FRCSG for christmas around age 14. The second...

Same here, we still use the 3e version.

I'm saying it's the beard. Also, in my experience, there is a certain kind of rpg players, who just hate everything that is popular, on principle, inlcuding Drizzt, Elminster, or FR itself.