D&D 3E/3.5 Are you done with 3e?

[Gundark]

In the most recent "will you switch?" Thread there were comments from people along the lines of "I don't know if I'll switch, but I'm done with 3e." I found comments like this interesting, as I know I'll try out 4e but I don't think I'll ever play 3e again (as DM or player). To be honest if 4e ends up being horrible I think I would just play something different.

Who feels the same way?

Now this thread isn't about picking apart 3e. There are a lot of people who enjoy the system and there is nothing wrong with this. Threads like this can quickly get contentous pretty soon. I really don't want to see that. So try and avoid stating what it is that you hate, what I'm wanting is more of a head count of people who are "done".

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Not me. As much as I've invested in 3E/D20/OGL, there is no way I'm done with it.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I'm done, been done for a number of years actually, only reason I continued to look at D&D was because of my other players. 4e has actually rejuvenated my hope/love of D&D.

 

[MerricB]

I'm still running 3.5e, but it's turning into 4e as more rules get revealed.

Cheers!

 

[Imban]

Yup, I'm pretty much entirely done with 3e, unless a sudden opportunity for a really good 3e game presents itself. Over the last year or so, the buildup of carried-over "yuck" in D&D's become more and more apparent to me, from the amazing disparity between fluff and crunch in the D&D cosmology to all of the only-half-understood mechanical holdovers from old versions present in 3e. I do wish that 4e would have held more to previous editions' fluff, but cleansing previous setting crunch with fire is a goal I have to approve of.

If 4e doesn't deliver what I want at all, I'll look into why and decide whether it's possible and worth bothering for me to produce a significantly house-ruled variant which will provide me with what I want. If it's not, I've always got all of the other games I play, and D&D's quite far from being the only heroic fantasy traditonal RPG on the market for that urge, anyway.

EDIT: Of course, I say "done" as someone who considers himself an amateur D&D historian. I still very much like all of my 3e books, much as I like all of my 2e books and my electronic copies of 1e and Basic and OD&D books. I'm just frustrated enough with its flaws that I'm starting to much prefer 2e, which didn't have its setting waters muddied nearly so much with half-executed and ill-conceived changes.

Well, most of its settings, at least.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Once 4e hits, I'm more than likely done DMing 3e, though not necessarily its derivatives (d20 Modern, Iron Heroes, etc).

 

[Imban]

Oh, yeah. I wasn't counting derivatives either - I'm the absolute opposite of done with Mutants & Masterminds.

 

[Hunter In Darkness]

i DM 3e and will keep doing so would play if i wasnt the full time DM

 

[Doug McCrae]

I'm playing in a 3e game right now. Currently I'm trying to decide whether to run D&D again. I did a little work on a campaign last night but then I thought - I can't face seeing glitterdust cast *every* f--king fight any more, I just can't. Or any of the other uber spells, there are so many virtual autowins in D&D. So if I do run 3e I may have to rewrite the magic system and I'm far too lazy to do that. Or ban wizards. Or ban magic.

 

[pukunui]

I was finished with 3.5 almost as soon as I started playing it about 2 years ago. I only stuck with it because I have no experience with any non-d&d RPGs and I thought 3.5 was going to be around for much longer ... now that 4e is on the horizon, playing 3.5 has become an almost unbearable burden but I'm going to hang in there until my RHoD campaign is finished (we're almost there anyway, maybe another 8-10 sessions). Then no more d&d for me until 4e is out. Instead, I'm letting one of my players take over as DM, and he's planning on running a homebrew sci-fi game based on the SWSE rules.