Does anyone still play 3.0e?

[coyote6]

3e here. We may adapt some 3.5e rules sometime soon, but it remains to be seen exactly how many we go for. It'll probably end up as 3.25.

 

[Bendris Noulg]

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know what "S&P" is.

Skills & Powers... It was part of a 4-book option set (S&P, Combat & Tactics, Spells & Magic, High Level Campaigns). Essentially, some of S&P (Skills) and a bit of C&T (Miniature Rules) came into 3E (changed, most assuredly, but the origins of some things are undeniable), some of S&M came into 3E by way of Metamagic Feats, but quite a bit of HLC is in the 3.x Core Rules (Sunder, Cleave, etc.) while the rest is now Epic.

To answer the thread topic, I'd say that I'm mostly 3E with some 3.5 mechanics changes and all of the changes to spells, as well as a bit of UA.

Of course, that's along side stuff ported in from OGL products and my own modifications.

 

[dead]

Skills & Powers... It was part of a 4-book option set (S&P, Combat & Tactics, Spells & Magic, High Level Campaigns).

Oh . . . now I know what you mean. Hey, these were "optional" rules. Edition 3.5 isn't optional, it supercedes 3.0.

 

[Piratecat]

My game just became 3.5, KidCthulhu's game will stay 3e, and Sagiro's game is about 3.25 and slowly shifting over to the newer rules. He claims he'll convert entirely before I have the opportunity to exploit a massive 3e rules loophole for my lasher.

 

[kamosa]

We are playing 3.5 for everything but the spells. For those we are still using the 3.0 rules.

 

[Greyson]

Does anyone still play 3.0e as written?

I switched to v.3.5 immediatley and never looked back. I have followed the same principle since 1st Ed. AD&D days - when 2nd Ed. AD&D came out, I switched that very day, etc., etc. I don't retain any nostalgic feelings for prior editions. Mostly, I like to see the game evolve and try new changes and approaches. Plus, I like D&D, and I'll support it wherever it goes (within reason). I appreciate WotC revitalizing the game and keeping it available. It has always been a part of my life (when my parents weren't!) and I do like to see new interpretations of this personal, life-long gaming habit.

So, if and when another edition of D&D is released, I'll be at Amazon.com, ordering my new core rule books.

 

[Alnag]

We still play 3E. I am not so rich, to buy another set of basic rules just because WotC wants more money. Anyway we use some 3.5E books (like Draconomicon). In my opinion, WotC did not revitalize the game, they just add another strange stuff (yeah, I mean these prestige classes, magic items, spells, domains, monsters, feats). Well, it is fine to have a few of these, but we play the game a different way, so what we need most is the feeling, not a bunch of statistics.
(Sorry for mistakes, I am not a native speaker ;-))

 

[Wycen]

When and if I run a game, it is 3.0, unless I'm playtesting something. Since I'm submitting stuff to various d20 e-publishers, I have to keep up with the Jones in that sense.

However, this really isn't true, since the last 2 games I ran, both one shots, used both sets of books willy nilly. The group I was running for had to buy 3.5 for the weeknight game they play in, and apparently nobody in that group realized how different 3.0 and 3.5 are, (don't want that arguement to start again but IMNSHO 3.5 is a different version). Rather than wait another 3 hours for everyone to redo characters I let the players use both books. If they picked up 3.5 PHB to reference a spell, we used that version. If they used 3.0, we used that version. If I run for them again I plan to make a huge list of explicit house rules regarding 3.0 and 3.5.

 

[Li Shenron]

The campaing I am currently running is our first in 3.5, and we play it without house rules or without mixing with 3.0.

However, the next campaign we are starting (we will play both at the same time, another player will be the DM) is going back to 3.0 entirely.

 

[Aloïsius]

I play 3.0, but I use the 3.5 ranger, and, may be, will allow hybrid 3.5-3.0 monk/barbarian/paladin... But I won't use the new spell, nor psionics... cause I won't buy those books.