3.5 Fans - Wassup!?!?!

[DaveMage]

For those of you who are staying and enjoying 3.5 (or playing both 4E and 3.5) - what are you currently playing in 3.5 (published adventure or homebrew), and what are your thoughts regarding the Pathfinder Beta?

Are you going to go whole cloth with Pathfinder or just take whatever you want from it and ignore the rest (or ignore it compeltely)?

Finally, what loot have you picked up due to the massive sales that have occured with 3.5 stuff?

 

[Crothian]

Even before 4e was announced I had more then enough 3.5 books to last quite a while. We are not doing anything with Pathfinder. I'm not that impressed by what they are doing so far, but I reserve final judgement till I see the final product.

In the massive sales of 3ed stuff I was able to finish my Goodman games DCC collection. I got the all the Dragonlance books and a few other odds and ends. But I had a lot of the stuff before hand so most of what went on sale that I wanted I already had.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Currently playing Rise of the Runelords with the Pathfinder rules as well as a side game of C&C. I'm planning on going with Pathfinder wholecloth, though I've toyed with the idea of using the 1/2 level + ability modifier mechanic.

I've been looking for some good WotC D&D 3.5 loot, but the prices I've found have remained higher than I want to pay. They seem to be holding their value better than I had expected.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I'm still into 3e, and other d20-based games, a fair bit. Still running some homebrew house-ruled E6 (3e capped at 6th level, plus a few other modifications). That's going pretty well, at mostly 3rd level, currently. Looking forward to checking out adventures and the like from Sinister Adventures, a company founded (I think) by Nick Logue of Dragon (etc.) fame. Very interesting stuff, and quite likely to my tastes.

Pathfinder is intriguing. I have the Beta, and will probably buy the final release RPG. Not sure whether it will become the (or even a) fantasy game for me and mine, but it shows promise. And damn, those guys put things together well.

Haven't been buying much of anything recently, and even not that recently. Last year I spent a lot on RPG stuff; this year not so much. This round of sales is just going to pass me by, pretty much. But that's OK - more loot for others!

 

[Herremann the Wise]

Playing 4E and 3.5 at the moment.

In 3.5, I'm DMing my group through the Age of Worms adventure path.
In 4E, we're doing the WotC official adventures.

I've looked at pathfinder beta and feel that it has some good tweaks, worth introducing. However, seeing as it's an ongoing campaign and things are going fine as is, and no players have been hankering for a change to pathfinder rules, we'll finish the adventure path as is.

As for picking up bargains, I'd have to say no. If anything, thanks to discussions on these boards (props to Pemerton and others here), I've been looking at different game systems aside from D&D. At the moment, I think there is a massive hole right in the middle of 4E and Pathfinder that I'm waiting for somebody to fill (and have been writing some stuff myself to introduce to my group for testing). Unfortunately for Pathfinder, I don't think it is going to correctly address high level play, being tied up by having to remain consistent with 3.5. But anyway, props to the guys at Paizo who are doing a fantastic job regardless.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

 

[EricNoah]

I subscribe to pathfinder stuff, so that keeps some good 3.5 stuff flowing in. I have lots of backlog stuff as well, including many Goodman Games adventures I would like to eventually run. I don't think I will go to Pathfinder whole cloth but I will certainly cherry-pick for usable ideas.

 

[scruffygrognard]

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) AND they manage to clean up some of 3.5's high-level play bugginess between now and August we'll consider switching over.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

For all I'm a big 4e fanboy I'd still be playing my 3.5 campaign if I had the time...

But Pathfinder didn't fix druid in the right way so no, no PF for my 3.5 campaign. Can't anyone show wildshape that isn't COMBAT obsessed?

 

[billd91]

I'm running a long-standing 3.5 game, playing through 1e classic modules. Updated for 3.5, of course. We're currently on break while we give 4e a try. They're right between the frost and fire giants in the G series. 13th level.

I also run a regular Shackled City game, 3.5 rules.

I like a lot of what's going on with Pathfinder. I've been impressed with many of the changes, particularly the changes to polymorph and wildshape. I also like the way the base classes have been given powers right up the level progression, providing an incentive to stay put in the class rather than jump off to a prestige class.
I'm really waiting to see how multiclassing turns out. That's going to be one of the stickiest bits to improve.

 

[Azgulor]

My campaign of Conan/Thieves' World hybrid continues and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. I'm keeping up with Pathfinder and will probably pick and choose from that system as it develops. I love the idea of the Sorceror bloodlines, for example. However, once the final RPG is out, if anyone wants to play straight-up-D&D style fantasy rather than the grittier swords-n-sorcery offered by Conan, it'll be Pathfinder all the way. Right now, once my current campaign ends, I plan on taking my Conan/Thieves World rulesset and using it with the Pathfinder setting.

Regular purchases continue to be Conan supplements and Pathfinder content, mostly the APs thus far.

I've got a long wish list of items I'd like to add but Mongoose and Paizo new stuff keeps trumping my older d20/3.5 picks. If there's some Christmas money left over for me I plan to attack the sales with vigor. It'll mostly be 3rd-party stuff, though, like Green Ronin. The 3rd-party publishers tend to cater to the gritter stuff that's more classical swords-n-sorcery. Since I find base D&D to trend toward over-the-top high fantasy, the WotC splats are going to have to come further down in price for me to pick any up.

If the remaining d20 stock has to be burned or pulped after the first of the year, I'll resign myself to PDFs or turning my d20-earmarked funds towards games like WFRP2 or GR's Game of Thrones RPG.