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

[xnosipjpqmhd]

Wow, I'm rather surprised at how many people disavow game systems/editions (in this case 3e) enough to say they'd never play them again! Granted, I think some systems are better than others, but nearly every RPG is fair game for me (no pun intended).

Basically, if a great GM had an awesome idea for a campaign, with a good group of players, and was comfortable with the rules, I'd play it system-unseen.

 

[delericho]

I don't know.

I would certainly play it again, but then I never get to play anyway.

As for running it, the idea currently makes me shudder. I'm too aware of the flaws at this stage to be entirely happy doing that. But the older editions have too many quirks for me to even consider running those, and it very much looks like 4e is not for me.

This September marks twenty years of me as a gamer. I think I may be done with it.

 

[Midknightsun]

I've got a Arcana campaign I'm running weekly, and a mix campaign (AE and 3.5) that I'm running every so often.

Once 4e comes, I'll start winding them down.

I plan to never run a 3.5 campaign afterwards (even AE), because the prep work sucks, and my girlfirend can only be so understanding about the time I put into it.

Play in one? Maybe down the road for purely nostalgic reasons. But I'm not burned out on derivatives like Iron heroes or Mutants and Masterminds (Heck I really wanted to run/play in a Midnight Campaign. . .alas my group mostly didn't like the grim and gritty take it had). I'd still play and/or run one of those, but my 3.5 joy is pretty much spent. Honestly, I don't hate the system. As a matter of fact, I like it more than previous systems (which you couldn't pay me to play in anymore), I'm just done with it. And done with all the game mastery elements it allowed for. Several months ago I was contemplating switching to another system anyway, so 4e has my hopes hung on it. If it disappoints. . . well, I might get back into WoD stuff, but not 3.5.

 

[Toryx]

I'll definitely continue playing 3.x as long as a DM I like is running it. I enjoy the game and there are still a lot of things for me to try out.

I may still DM 3.x, though if I do it'll be heavily house-ruled, and I'll have to figure out a way to improve the prep time.

I'll probably be playing 4e too, if I can find a group who wants to play it, but I have no desire to drop 3.x the way I did 2e.

 

[Mark Hope]

Done? Not even close.

3.5 alive!

 

[lkjopajdowma]

Everything I've heard about the design philosphy behind 4e, as well as the few bits of crunch has me excited that the game will be much smoother to run -- and therefore more fun to play.

The group I play with has some people with a bad habit(IMO) of needing to follow the RAW to the letter, which includes stopping to look everything up if they don't know it, and don't even know what book its in. It's not everyone in my group, but its enough that whenever we're playing, we have one person like that. At the same time, we have some other players who DM that simply throw rules out there that aren't logical within the way the system works, and aren't consistent about them.

If 4e fixes this problem by making it so you can logically guess how something would work within the rules of the game, and encourages flexibility in rules on the fly, play can be immensly sped up and made more enjoyable for my group.

If this happens, I don't see myself ever necessarily wanting to play 3.5 over it, but I doubt I'd be adverse to it.

I certainly don't have an interest in running 3.5. I've tried a few small games, and at this point in my life with school I just don't have the time needed to prepare 3.5. I do like running a game, so I hope the promise of severely cut down prep time for the DM is delivered so I can run something. If all else fails, I can always continue working on ideas and have something amazing to run when after I graduate.

 

[Stormtower]

I am slowly coming around to 4E... my "Experience" with the intro mods at DDXP will be a significant deciding factor for my final purchase/not purchase decision on 4E.

Irregardless of whether 4E grabs me or not for organized (RPGA/LFR) play, my home games in Gaia's Dream, the World of Aereth (DCC world) and eventually Golarion/Pathfinder will remain 3.5E for the next half-dozen years at least. It is unlikely in the extreme that I will ever convert my homebrew stuff to 4e. I love 3.5E/OGL and it strikes a lovely balance, IMO, between gamist and simulationist tropes. It's the game that brought me back to D&D and inspired many, many hours of excellent campaigns on the part of myself and my cohorts.

Now, that doesn't mean I won't run 4E at home... but my goals with 4E now (assuming I like it enough to buy and run) are to extend my hobby towards whatever goal the RPGA/WotC are envisioning and act as an ambassador for the game by running and participating in RPGA games in Living Forgotten Realms.

Perhaps I am susceptible to their marketing ploys, but one of the turning points for me, from "4E no way!" to "4E perhaps" was reading through Races & Classes and Worlds & Monsters. There's some great stuff in there.

 

[Nebulous]

Pretty much my situation. Been done for years. Have tolerated the knock offs (AE/AU and IH), but the system itself is best forgotten. It was initially promising, but I grew rather weary of a system focused solely on accumulating the biggest pile of bonuses.

Yeah, the knock offs were the best thing about it. I wonder if we'll be saying that about 4e in eight years?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Yeah, the knock offs were the best thing about it. I wonder if we'll be saying that about 4e in eight years?

Possible, but I wouldn't see that as so bad - okay, it means we still haven't found the Perfect Game (TM), but it means that people still have ideas how to improve the existing games.

 

[frankthedm]

Poll is kinda flawed, "Never" is too strong without a ""Probably will not" option. My group is mostly done with 3.5 and is pretty happy with warhammer. Chances are I won't run or play 3E, but never say never.