Down with the negativity! Tell me what you like about 3E.

[Desdichado]

1. Common mechanic that makes sense and is applied consistently to almost all situations.
2. Design emphasis on flexibility.
3. The OGL. I use more things from 3rd party products than official ones these days.
4. d20. I like have Star Wars, Call of Cthulhu, Wheel of Time, Conan and more all using 90% or so of the same mechanics, yet with a very recognizable flavor difference between them all.

 

[LostSoul]

Only one.

It's hella fun.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

So, tell me what you like about this edition of D&D. And, as an added bonus, you'll have at least one thread free of diaglo!

I have a hard time believing that.

 

[barsoomcore]

3E got me a job

Heh. I got that beat:

3e got me stewardesses for players.

Anyone wants to say anything bad about 3E, I got four ladies from Air Canada say otherwise.

Yeah, yeah, OGL, yeah, yeah, leveled monsters, yeah, yeah, single mechanic, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Stewardesses. THAT'S a game system, baby.

 

[barsoomcore]

Just to repeat: I DM stewardesses.

Sorry, is that getting obnoxious?

 

[Desdichado]

Just to repeat: I DM stewardesses.

Sorry, is that getting obnoxious?

Naw. When I get my game of female underwear models going, I'll have you beat.

 

[barsoomcore]

NWhen I get my game of female underwear models going, I'll have you beat.

Beaten by female underwear models? THERE'S a fate I'm looking forward to.

Huzzah for 3e! What a system!

Apologies to anyone trying to have a serious conversation in this thread. Normally I'm much more decorous. Normally I'm not being promised beatings at the hands of underwear models.

 

[Acid_crash]

No Thac0
WYRIWYG - What You Roll Is What You Get
Customization - I can see many options available for customization (as long as the DM will allow them).
3rd Party Support - Talk about so many fricken books to choose from, anything is availalbe, and so much more is coming out.
Prestige Classes - I like the concept of these a lot, they do add an extra dimension to the game that previous games didn't have.

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

My first thoughts when I was introduced to 3e:

Two Handed weapons are worth using!
You mean it makes a difference what my con score is between 8 and 15?!?
No more percentile strength!
Feats and domains mean that no two characters need to be alike
There's actual mechanics for something other than combat!
Item creation rules allow a character to continue upgrading his weapon rather than ditching his old weapon every time he finds a better one.

After I started DMing, I noticed a few more things I liked:
Templates
Advancement rules
NPC classes instead of silly "0-level" rules
No more is it assumed that everyone you meet is either an adventurer or a 0-level.
The prices in the DMG and gp limits for towns, etc give rough guidelines for creating a magical economy. (Whereas before, despite the fact that my characters both had the money and desire to purchase magic swords when they were low-level and had more +1 swords than they knew what to do with at high level, it appeared that no-one else in the world was in the same situation at either level).

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

As I indicated in the counterpoint thread, the only thing I don't like is the assumption that the game uses miniature figures and a battlemat. Everything else has brought three decades of house rules down to less than a postage stamp. If I had to house rule to get rid of the miniatures, it would be fine... But I don't. Simply don't use them, the system runs like a dream anyway, and I don't ever need another game system ever again. Its bliss. D20/3E.x is absolute perfection.