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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 391909" data-attributes="member: 812">Am I the only one who finds 3E tremendously easy to hack apart, house-rule like crazy, morph, twist, spindle, fold and mutilate? I created an entirely different magic system, changed the AC system so that armour was less attractive, basically made smart, fast guys WAY better than strong, tough guys, took out 80% of the classes, made up a half-dozen feats and stole a bunch more from anywhere I could find them, threw a bunch of others out, trashed both divine and arcane magic COMPLETELY......and STILL ended up with a fun, playable game! Balance problems? A few, mostly dealt with now, it seems. Math problems? Hardly at all. Prep time problems? None.It was so easy. It was fun. And I almost always had a clear idea of what the impact of my changes would be, and I was almost never wrong about that.Which reminds me of 1E. The thing that, to me, made D&amp;D better than just about any other game on the market was how easy it was to house-rule the darn thing into complete oblivion. No other game has ever seemed so endlessly mutable to me. Not even the purported &quot;all genre&quot; games -- with D&amp;D you can smack primary mechanics around and it still holds together. Kinda.I loved that about 1E. I love the fact that it's even EASIER in 3E. Yeah, sure, 1E IS inferior to 3E. 3E is an improvement.Let me put it another way -- it's easier to morph 3E so that it plays like 1E than it is to morph 1E so that it plays like 3E. QED.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 391909, member: 812"] Am I the only one who finds 3E [i]tremendously[/i] easy to hack apart, house-rule like crazy, morph, twist, spindle, fold and mutilate? I created an entirely different magic system, changed the AC system so that armour was less attractive, basically made smart, fast guys WAY better than strong, tough guys, took out 80% of the classes, made up a half-dozen feats and stole a bunch more from anywhere I could find them, threw a bunch of others out, trashed both divine and arcane magic COMPLETELY... ...and STILL ended up with a fun, playable game! Balance problems? A few, mostly dealt with now, it seems. Math problems? Hardly at all. Prep time problems? None. It was so easy. It was [i]fun[/i]. And I almost always had a clear idea of what the impact of my changes would be, and I was almost never wrong about that. Which reminds me of 1E. The thing that, to me, made D&D better than just about any other game on the market was how easy it was to house-rule the darn thing into complete oblivion. No other game has ever seemed so endlessly mutable to me. Not even the purported "all genre" games -- with D&D you can smack primary mechanics around and it still holds together. Kinda. I loved that about 1E. I love the fact that it's even EASIER in 3E. Yeah, sure, 1E [i]IS[/i] inferior to 3E. 3E is an improvement. Let me put it another way -- it's easier to morph 3E so that it plays like 1E than it is to morph 1E so that it plays like 3E. QED. [/QUOTE]

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