Aspects of D&D that have made you fed up?

[Jon_Dahl]

What rules or features of D&D have made you to consider burning your books?

In my group there is a clear consensus against animal companions and familiars. "Oh no, another ******* rat!" is perhaps the best way to summarize our sentiment. The enormous and unfun zoo directed by druids, rangers, sorcerers and wizards has been always been alien to us. Eventually I created a houserule for variant classes which have no critters and this houserule has been the most popular optional houserule I have ever created.

 

[Dioltach]

I got hugely fed up with the level progression in 2E. At a certain point, around level 10-12 I believe, you need to singlehandedly defeat a dozen dragons to get enough XP to level up. And when you do, unless you're a spellcaster, there's almost no benefit whatsoever. I found that very frustrating.

As a DM, I also hate illusion spells of all kinds. The players come up with the wildest ideas and expect to fool everyone, but if an opponent ever uses an illusion there's a huge outcry with arguments that they see through it and they'd never fall for something like that. After the fact, of course, when it turns out that they've been fooled.

 

[Nikmal]

Aspects of D&D that have made you fed up?

The Entire 4th Edition line-up and the rules glut that WotC seems to think that is ok!!

 

[Storminator]

I was going to say "Messageboard edition wars" but somebody beat me too it.

PS

 

[D'karr]

The "fans".

 

[renau1g]

Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I've never felt that passionate about my hobby where I'd want to burn books I'd paid for with hard-earned cash. If I ever got that frustrated, I'd probably just go do something else.

Now, I did find the 2e differing xp levels a bit annoying and the druid needing to defeat a higher level druid to advance was nonsensical to me.

3e's system mastery and rules bloat was another

4e's immediate actions (interrupts, reactions, etc) is the biggest in that edition that I dislike.

 

[Gilladian]

How rapidly a simple game becomes too complex to run or even play well without spending hours figuring out rules.

 

[Crothian]

The pointlessly long dungeon crawls. I've taken to doing the good points versions of dungeons by skipping the empty or useless rooms and let the players enjoy a higher volume of the good parts of the dungeons.

 

[SLOTHmaster]

The recordkeeping at high levels in 3e

 

[Ahnehnois]

Hit points?