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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Count Arioch the 28t" data-source="post: 1575287" data-attributes="member: 16676">Although I am perhaps younger in age than most of the old time players, I am still an old guy in spirit, having learned roleplaying while playing OD&D in 1994 or so.  (20 years too late, but hey, better late than never.)I liked that old version.  A lot, actually.  It had a feel that no other game can quite catch.In 1999, I switched to 2E, and wish I hadn't a few months in.  It was cumbersome, clunky, and weird.  Even though I was more than used to Thac0 (Was called something else in OD&D, but was basically the same idea), the rest of the system seemed odd.  (If you so called old timers think monsters with character classes seem odd, you should have seen me when I realized that not only could elves, dwarves, and halflings take classes, but they could take more than one at the same time!  The mind wobbles . . .)I had pretty much given up D&D for good about when 3E came out.  The local gaming store was running a demo game when it came out, so I said "What the hell, I have an afternoon to kill!"  I tried it, and kinda liked it.After a few adventures, I took over the campaign from the shop owner, who didn't have tie to run it past the sample adventures.  When I was DMing the game, wow!  I had customization over every encounter, every monster, every villain!  The control was intoxicating.  Sure, it did take a lot longer to create villains than it did earlier, but I didn't mind one bit.  I love the fact that I can tweak any given aspect of a monster to exactly what I wanted.  (Also would like to point out that in 3E, I never had to take time to figure out what I roll to determine 2-5 damage, in 3E, it's written 1d4+1, which takes me less time to figure out.)A lot of people say that 3E isn't D&D.  I agree with them, it just isn't.  But that doesn't mean it's not fun, a lot of people have fun with GURPS, ro Palladium, or Storyteller, why not have fun with D20?  Sure, they bucked a lot of trends, but that doesn't mean it can't be a fun ride.  And though I would love to play in an OD&D campaign again, I still enjoy immensely my 3E campaign.</blockquote>

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