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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 7956506" data-attributes="member: 158">My personal opinion:Optimization is more of a hallmark of 3rd edition D&amp;D than 5th, and though this forum has fans of all editions on here, the majority of 3e fans may well have moved on to other forums.GITP is a place where a lot of 3e fans reside (where 3e is their game of choice), hence the focus on optimization. For one thing, Order of the Stick is a cartoon that had its birth in 3.5e D&amp;D, and it never “edition changed” after 3.5, so that may be the reason it feels like a lot of 3e fans hang there. (Rich Burlew has said that he sort of changed it to “editionless” later, but any time he makes a rules-based joke, the gist is still 3e influenced.)Here there is a greater focus on 5e among forum members today, an edition which de-emphasizes system mastery. If you dig into older threads from the 3e days, you find a HUGE amount of optimization talk from people like Treantmonk from back in the day, and from a lot of people who either moved on largely to other platforms, or just moved away from gaming later in life.every forum seems to have a “gravity focus“ - here is mostly 5e, a person likely goes to GITP for 3e focus, to places like Dragonsfoot (if they’re still around, I haven’t been in a while), etc.as far as civility and cultural tone, I can’t say - it shifts over time. I still frequent this one because I like Russ, and there are a few old faces around I still connect with. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😀" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" title="Grinning face&nbsp; &nbsp; :grinning:" data-shortname=":grinning:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 7956506, member: 158"] My personal opinion: Optimization is more of a hallmark of 3rd edition D&D than 5th, and though this forum has fans of all editions on here, the majority of 3e fans may well have moved on to other forums. GITP is a place where a lot of 3e fans reside (where 3e is their game of choice), hence the focus on optimization. For one thing, Order of the Stick is a cartoon that had its birth in 3.5e D&D, and it never “edition changed” after 3.5, so that may be the reason it feels like a lot of 3e fans hang there. (Rich Burlew has said that he sort of changed it to “editionless” later, but any time he makes a rules-based joke, the gist is still 3e influenced.) Here there is a greater focus on 5e among forum members today, an edition which de-emphasizes system mastery. If you dig into older threads from the 3e days, you find a HUGE amount of optimization talk from people like Treantmonk from back in the day, and from a lot of people who either moved on largely to other platforms, or just moved away from gaming later in life. every forum seems to have a “gravity focus“ - here is mostly 5e, a person likely goes to GITP for 3e focus, to places like Dragonsfoot (if they’re still around, I haven’t been in a while), etc. as far as civility and cultural tone, I can’t say - it shifts over time. I still frequent this one because I like Russ, and there are a few old faces around I still connect with. 😀 [/QUOTE]

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