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I give up. I'm being as even and reasonable as is possible and yet this is the kind of response I get. Here, it's simple. You enjoy your thing. I enjoy my thing. Stay away from my thing just like I stay away from your thing. We can both hope that 5E is our thing. Or not. Maybe you hope it's...

I don't really know what you expect people to say. "Yes you're absolutely right, what a fool I am!" 3.X doesn't work for you. For a lot of people, it works just fine. Not everyone who it works for specifically likes super wizards/clerics. Classes will never be balanced. I would rather have a...

Fair enough. Those are all good points. And by magic lock I meant a lock that is magical not at all physical. I don't put guards around places for the rogue or fighter either. I meant guards for spellcasters actually but it doesn't matter. Regardless to design a world that the PCs live in...

It really depends what shape 5E takes to determine how they would do that. I mean in 3.X a 'solo' monster is just a monster that's tough for the PCs. Usually stronger monsters have a variety of abilities to deal with the PCs abilities. As for multiple turns. Maybe stuff like the silt horror...

As long as everyone remains reasonably civil it's fun to bicker and debate. Everyone wants the newest edition to be what they like. Why wouldn't they? So if I dislike more things in one edition than another I'm supposed to ignore that? That's just silly. Everyone isn't going to lose anything...

Go with whatever you're playing currently. My girlfriend and my friend's girlfriend both like RPGs and play pretty regularly. If someone is interested enough to want to learn or play, whatever version you're actively playing is the one you should go with. As long as other players have a modicum...

Mallus that sounds about right. In my case since I began with 3E, it was a lot to take in at once. Because of that, from the beginning there was a level of leniency. We knew the game was complex and had many parts that weren't clear but we simply wanted to get to the playing. Over time I kept...

I think almost everyone is hopeful. Some more than others. This is just how things go though. An edition is more than just some rules. It's memories and emotions too and part of holding onto an edition is holding onto everything else attached to it. When people want things a certain way it...

In my experience there's a much bigger gap in 4E. That may be due to all kinds of things and so I'll just leave it at that. I mostly agree with what you're saying so that's good enough for me.

Can't really agree there while I understand what you mean. You're right about how much the approach determines things but 4E really does force you to focus to be useful to the party. In 4E there is really no room for characters who have a relatively balanced ability stat spread. Look at Valeros...

Both of those groups sound like the premise for a sitcom. I laughed when I read your post.

Right but it's the exploit part that has to do with trust. Unless you the DM are encouraging it, your players should trust you and you them not to exploit things in ways you didn't intend. That develops over time but really there's no difference like you said. What you said definitely applies...

How much more can they do before it's simply annoying? It's up to the DM and players to decide how they want to play. The book explains that rules can be changed as much as you would like but it gives guidelines for doing so. I don't know how explicit you want something to be. What you meant...

I don't remember this at all. Where did Monte Cook say the DM shouldn't modify things or improv things, etc. when presented with unknown situations, or even situations where there are rules but no one is quite sure how to handle them? He says quite the opposite. That understanding the...

It's just plain bizarre that you don't realize you answered your own problem. Somehow this works for you in 4E. This really generic statement. But that's just impossible in 3E? In 4E you're ok with doing more than just simply running the game as a rules moderator. In 3E though suddenly that's...

It has numerous smaller settings within the larger setting they all reside in. There are an unknown number of different planes that exist which function more or less like planets. Originally though the game took place on dominaria until they blew dominaria up and then started designing new...

People seem to sometimes forget that the adventure paths aren't just an adventure. Usually the book is about 60% adventure with the rest being a bestiary, a short story and some article about the setting. Most people are probably getting each AP for around $14-16. $14 for a 96 page full color...

I ran a FR 3E Campaign because those were the books my friends were reading at the time and I enjoyed some of the art and the style of the 3E books (they're gorgeous, the faux parchment is just too cool). Really though I have no specific interest in it. I enjoyed Eberron more because it was...

Solution to 15 minute adventuring day is incredibly simple. You make it difficult for the PCs to safely sleep anywhere they could possibly be in danger. So if they want to sleep all the time they're going to be wasting a lot of time (and likely be traveling a decent amount) which can and should...

I have actually looked for them from time to time. Locally I can't find anything and via amazon while I can find them I can't seem to ever be looking when there are good quality copies going for reasonable prices. Same goes for planescape stuff. thankfully my girlfriend managed to snag a copy...