Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3259074" data-attributes="member: 10412"><p>And that's a fair criticism, in my opinion. I like the standardization, and I have enough experience from 1st and 2nd Edition that I can, and have, made 3rd Edition my own in that sense. I think what some people are forgetting is that the sort of personal investment we're talking about from previous edition was the work of playing it over and over and over again during the course of years. 3rd Edition hasn't actually been out that long, by comparison. But in the games I see, people are starting to invest themselves and decide on houserules. I'm starting to see more houserules in the games where I play, and more confident DMs with the experience to decide what they will allow, and what they won't. Third Edition is starting to mature as a game, because its players and DMs are maturing. Much as some people hate to admit it, the Complete Mage is a damn good book. Some folks would like to believe that all of the books coming out of WotC are crap, and shlock designed to make a profit. And some of them are. (Big shock, since 2nd Edition added new meaning to the phrase "rules bloat.") But the game itself is growing, and often growing better. Conan d20 is an incredible game, and some of the folks writing for it blow me away. Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed is an excellent and interesting game. 3rd Edition is maturing in many different forms, and in many ways, is a better game than 1st Edition ever aspired to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>

Verification