D&D 3E/3.5 Are you done with 3e?
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pweent
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I get my thoughts together and see that in the meantime FrankTheDM has nailed it.
Will I DM 3e again? Almost certainly not - once I finish running Age of Worms, which will likely run another year. Would I DM 3e again? I'm polling "no", but there is one last reason I'd do a 3e game - to run a very specialized wuxia flavored game where all the characters were non-PHB classes. Book of Nine Swords for the fighter types, maybe psionic classes or warlock for magic. But while that sounds fun to put together as a short game, I recognize that it probably wouldn't happen until, say, 2010, and by that time 4e may have soaked up a lot of the novelty of the Bo9S classes.
I certainly won't refuse to play 3e again if someone puts together a good game and chooses to run it in 3e, but I doubt my group will be going that way. And I wound tend to avoid rather than seek out 3e games at conventions.
Will I DM 3e again? Almost certainly not - once I finish running Age of Worms, which will likely run another year. Would I DM 3e again? I'm polling "no", but there is one last reason I'd do a 3e game - to run a very specialized wuxia flavored game where all the characters were non-PHB classes. Book of Nine Swords for the fighter types, maybe psionic classes or warlock for magic. But while that sounds fun to put together as a short game, I recognize that it probably wouldn't happen until, say, 2010, and by that time 4e may have soaked up a lot of the novelty of the Bo9S classes.
I certainly won't refuse to play 3e again if someone puts together a good game and chooses to run it in 3e, but I doubt my group will be going that way. And I wound tend to avoid rather than seek out 3e games at conventions.
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Agamon
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If I'm not playing 4E, why play another edition of D&D when there so many cool non-D&D games out there? I still wnat to play M&M, WFRP, Scion, and others. RPGs are very time-consuming. As much as I admire some of the older editions, it's not worth my time to play some slightly different fantasy game. So, yeah, my current AoW game is the end of 3E for me.
AntiStateQuixote
Enemy of the State
I have not played D&D consistently in about 2 years. I'm really looking forward to 4E getting my creative juices going again and kicking off a campaign as soon as it's out.
I doubt I will ever do 3.x again, but I'd be willing to do so, just not really interested in it.
I doubt I will ever do 3.x again, but I'd be willing to do so, just not really interested in it.
Roadkill101
Explorer
It depends on the group with me. I've gamed with the same group of friends since 1991.
I was done with 3.x as GM not long after it came out because I developed my own system for personal use prior to WOTC acquiring TSR. I tried 3.x, just didn't care for it over my system.
I'm currently playing in a 3.x game, run by one of said friends of the group. We've been running my campaign for the last couple of years, switching to his only occasionally. Lately though, we've been running his campaign as he wants to finish it up before the release of 4e.
I was done with 3.x as GM not long after it came out because I developed my own system for personal use prior to WOTC acquiring TSR. I tried 3.x, just didn't care for it over my system.
I'm currently playing in a 3.x game, run by one of said friends of the group. We've been running my campaign for the last couple of years, switching to his only occasionally. Lately though, we've been running his campaign as he wants to finish it up before the release of 4e.
The Human Target
Adventurer
I'd never DM but I would play 3e
I've been done with 3.5 for a year or so now, from a DMing standpoint.
I just ran my limit of games with the system.
I'd still play though, no problem. A lower level game at least.
I've been done with 3.5 for a year or so now, from a DMing standpoint.
I just ran my limit of games with the system.
I'd still play though, no problem. A lower level game at least.
I'm in War of the Burning Sky right now, we haven't decided if we are going to switch over to 4e (our DM would have to do a lot of conversions!). I would say it's about 60% that I will drop out if we don't switch lol.
Basically it comes down to how MUCH better I feel the rules for 3.5 are, and how hard it is to convert a lot of the combat rules.
never is a long time, and there are still a bunch of options in 3.5 that interest me, both character builds and adventures.
Basically it comes down to how MUCH better I feel the rules for 3.5 are, and how hard it is to convert a lot of the combat rules.
never is a long time, and there are still a bunch of options in 3.5 that interest me, both character builds and adventures.
Darth Cyric
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Yup, that's pretty much where I'm at.MerricB said:I'm still running 3.5e, but it's turning into 4e as more rules get revealed.
Darth Cyric said:
Us too, between the Saga, 2.0 DDM, and 4th Ed rules we've introduced, it feels like my group is playing 3.75 or some such.
It would be really rough for me to go back to DMing straight 3.5.
Gothmog
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Yeah, I'm completely and totally done with D&D 3.x and D20 as it exists now. The 3.x ruleset is too deeply flawed for my group's playstyle to mess with, and ends up being less fun to play than other systems. And this is coming from a guy who has bought probably $7000 worth of 3.x/d20 stuff over the years. I haven't run 3.x/D20 in over 3 years now, and haven't played it in about 1.5 years- the thought of running another 3.x game gives about as much joy to consider as undergoing another right side thoracotomy. The D&D 3.x and D20 books had some good ideas, but horrible implementation IMO, but they are still useful to mine for ideas.
I'm cautiously optomistic about 4E- I love the flavor changes, and the mechanics seem tighter, more streamlined and much easier to prep. In the meantime though, we'll stick with the four games that we've heaped our love on- Savage Worlds, nWOD, WHFRP2, and WH40k: Dark Heresy.
I'm cautiously optomistic about 4E- I love the flavor changes, and the mechanics seem tighter, more streamlined and much easier to prep. In the meantime though, we'll stick with the four games that we've heaped our love on- Savage Worlds, nWOD, WHFRP2, and WH40k: Dark Heresy.
