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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 699207" data-attributes="member: 1465">For the first weeks after the news about 3.5e came out, I have been thinking that the revision would have been much less critical than expected by most of the people in this board. Many people started threads about "what would you like to have in the revised core rulebooks?" and everone, including me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />, had fun with a long long long list of what basically is already his own set of house rules about what we don't like in 3e, even if way too often we have never really tried as it is in the official rule.Seeing so many "tweaks" suggested or wished by everyone, I was expecting common disappointment at the time the revised books will be published, because I was quite confident that the revision was exactly a revision, that is mainly a layout-redesign and better explanations or wording of everything (or at least most) that has created doubts and misunderstanding in the past. I was sure that, except some balance changes to few spells and maybe skills and monsters, nothing important was going to be changed, since the much proclaimed 100% compatibility of the revision with everything else before published.Neverthless, in the meantime many little scoops have been flowing from WotC to our board about changes that involve things that were perfectly working (like DR, or core classes), although not necessarily perfect; as long as I strongly believe there can never be a "perfect" design which satisfies all DMs and players, on the overall I am preparing myself for fiery debates on this board next summer, and I am quite sure that the more gets changed from 3e, the more "personal" mixes between 3e and 3,5e will be played around the community. After all, isn't it what every DM does? He takes the rules and settings and changes them according to what he likes better: publishing a revision which basically gives alternatives which are not necessarily improvements is not IMHO in the spirit of 3e, which encourages DMs to write variants by themselves.Personally, I can't tell you yet what I will do: I have always been supporting official rules over house rules (including mine), and therefore I'll prefer to stick either to 3e or 3.5e, not mix the two if any change is very relevant, such as if core classes get changed. In any way, I won't move to 3.5 at all if it makes my collection of accessory books obsolete.</blockquote>

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