By the book or house rules?

Celtavian summed up the aspect of house rules quite well above. Each person's sense of verisimilitude is such that they will want some house rules of their own.

My game is very light on house rules. There are only three that I can think of, of the top of my head.

1) When rolling for hit points, you may reroll a '1', but must take the new result, even if it also is a '1'.

2) When 2 people flank a unit, it is considered flanked to everyone, not just the two attackers (although I suspect we'll remove this with 3.5).

3) When rolling additional damage for Criticals, we only multiply the base dice, not the bonuses. (i.e. on a 1d10+6, the damage actually does 2d10+6 (8-26), not 1d10+6 x2 (16-32). (This too will likely be removed with 3.5).

That's it, though I considered limiting Harm, I decided against it. I think many people are suprised how many people don't use house rules, actually.
 

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I don't expect any house rules out of 3.5. As far as I know, we didn't make up any for 3E, so I don't see 3.5 being any different.

And yes, we did have a large book worth of house rules in 2E days.
 

I never really played 2e, with both OD&D and 1e used to have quite a lot of house rules and adaptations of stuff from magazines, especially White Dwarf when it was a general gaming mag.

With 3e its pretty much with the regular rules. I'm waiting to see what I think of 3.5 before I can say if I want to use house rules, also at the moment I'm more of a player than DM so go with their rules, but some of my campaign ideas would work better with some rule mods.
 

Come to think of it, I don't think I have ever played in a campaign that did not have at least one house rule. There is usually at least one rule that the DM or players really can't stand and will choose to fix.

Personally I house rule a lot because there were a lot of holes and poor rules in both 2e and 3e that I didn't like or didn't fit the world very well. Assuming the info that I have seen on 3.5 is correct, I already have a batch of house rules ready to go for my campaign (some of which are holdovers from my 3.0 edition of my house rules).

Tzarevitch
 
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