Do you like D&D?

[Storyteller01]

I like the new mechanics, but I don't like the direction the game is heading. I've stuck with 3.0 and buy OGL suppliments. There seems to be (just my opinion folks) a greater focus on the story with certain OGL companies and their products.

 

[DMH]

You know, I always think the exact same thing: This is a d20 board, so everyone who doesn't like d20 should not be here. I cannot think of any reason for them being here other than openly bashing the very thing these boards are here for. Well, that's the problem with the internet: You cannot take someone by the collar and throw him out....

Is that so? So you want to toss me because I really dislike the rules but find the supplements useful? Have you ever seen me bash anything of d20?

I guess I am happy you have absolutely no mod powers here.

 

[demiurge1138]

I prefer the current D&D, mostly because it's the only one I really know how to play, but also because, rules-wise, the older stuff just seems... odd to me.

That won't stop me from shamelessly stealing flavor, plot ideas and the like from 2e supplements.

Demiurge out.

 

[Sammael]

I think Gary Gygax recently said his favorite versions were the current one and the original one (go figure). I like the current one, personally.

Gary Gygax does not even consider 3.x to be D&D.

 

[Wayside]

I wouldn't waste my time hating D&D, but I don't play it anymore and have no interest in doing so. d20 and various d20-based systems, on the other hand, are fine.

 

[FireLance]

I have played: Basic D&D, 1e AD&D (eventually adding Unearthed Arcana), 2e AD&D (gradually adding the Complete books and Skills and Powers), 3.0e and 3.5e (which I consider current).

I strongly prefer the current edition to the previous versions of the game. I enjoyed playing the previous editions, but I like the current one significantly more. I like to think of it as progress, in much the same way that I upgraded from a 286 desktop to 486 desktop to a pentium laptop.

 

[Seeker95]

If you read the replies and compare them to the votes, I thinks you'll get a pretty clear picture of what you had intuitively guessed:

Complainers talk more than praisers.

Barely 10% of the votes indicate any preference of a previous edition over the current one. Yet over 50% of the comments give that same indication. About 83% indicate a preference of some degree for the current edition over previous editions. The balance (~7%) either have no preference whatsoever or don't like D&D.

 

[Hand of Evil]

My feelings on the subject, I like
Current edition greater than or equal to 3.0
Current edition greater than 2.0
Current edition equal to 1st edition
Current edition less than or equal to WFRP
Current edition less than or equal to HARP

 

[Jupp]

If you read the replies and compare them to the votes, I thinks you'll get a pretty clear picture of what you had intuitively guessed:

Complainers talk more than praisers.

Barely 10% of the votes indicate any preference of a previous edition over the current one. Yet over 50% of the comments give that same indication. About 83% indicate a preference of some degree for the current edition over previous editions. The balance (~7%) either have no preference whatsoever or don't like D&D.

Well it's more like this is a 3.x D&D (D20) board so it is really no wonder that the poll looks like it does now. Everything else would have been fairly desastrous, no? Asking the same question on Dragonsfoot or similar boards would give you totally different results. So the whole thing is a bit of patting yourself on the back

 

[dougmander]

I don't really wring my hands too much about what system I use for gaming. If you have good players, you can have a great time with any edition of D&D. If I lost all my 3e books tomorrow, I'd be just as happy to drag out my 1e books and use those instead. That having been said, I moderately prefer the current edition of D&D for the following reasons:

-- the core mechanic is applied consistently across the rules, so that rolling higher is always better
-- conditions like "stunned", "invisible", and so forth are much better codified than in previous versions
-- ability scores seem to matter more, and have been tied more closely and consistently with saving throws, combat bonuses, and so on
-- some quirks from earlier editions have been hunted down and shot, and replaced with better solutions. I'm thinking saves, multiclassing, XP, I could probably come up with more examples.

But there is still progress to be made:

-- NPCs and monsters take way too long to create, and are hard to do on the fly compared to previous editions.
-- skill-point management seems to take an inordinate amount of time. I'd like to see skills simplified greatly.
-- combat seems to steer you towards miniatures-based, grid-based play, rather than descriptive play. Nothing against minis, but I like fast combats that take place in the shared imaginations of the players rather than on the table.