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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 7963866" data-attributes="member: 6750908">I voted that I used to play it, but that it didn't leave a strong impression on me. Not really true-- it left a very strong impression on me, but it left both a positive impression and a negative impression. If you count 3.0/3.5/PF1 as all the same game-- as I do-- then there's only one version of D&D I love more, and only one version of D&D I hate more.I switched to 3e immediately when it came out. I'd had a subscription to Dragon for years, and the last few issues had been hyping up how fresh the new edition was going to be-- and honestly, it didn't disappoint. Barbarians and Monks and Half-Orcs and Assassins and Demons and Devils were back on the core, all the crufty old AD&D jank was gone... it was great.I bought all the class books and I loved them. I skipped the modules, because I never used them in AD&D. I skipped the campaign setting stuff, because they didn't reprint (or license) any of the settings I cared about. I bought a lot of rad third-party stuff, like XCrawl and DragonStar. I bought Oriental Adventures and I loved it.The 3.5 Revision came out, and it was way too soon, but I bought it anyway, and maybe it was a reflection on how loosely I followed the rules... but I only really noticed the changes to classes, feats, and some of the monsters. I bought all the class books, and they were way better than the old ones and I was glad I switched, even if I could have used the new splats with the old core. I bought all the race books, and they were even better even if they had fewer new bits to accommodate page after page after page of fluff telling you how to incorporate it into your worlds.Late cycle, a lot of the new books bugged me. Magic of Incarnum seemed flat and uinteresting. Tome of Magic seemed ill-fitting and discordant. Book of Nine Swords was the most disappointing, because it was the book I was most looking forward to... but it added whole new classes to incorporate its new martial arts system, obsoleting the iconic martial classes, but not truly replacing them. The later class books were not great, taking the Races of... approach to extremes for Prestige Classes that were not, by any stretch of the imagination, things that needed to be incorporated into a campaign setting.Unearthed Arcana 3.5 was the best D&D book ever published and you can fight me.By the end of 3.5's run... I was pretty sick of it. I was sick of charop culture, I was sick of a multiclassing system that wasn't good for anything but charop-- I'd long since adopted Gestalt as a stopgap-- I was sick of the game not working at the levels I preferred to play. I got sick of D&D in general.I switched to HARP and Rolemaster for professional reasons that have long since ceased to matter, and I just never came back. I've run one campaign of 3.PF, played in one short campaign of 4e, and run one campaign of 5e... but I haven't really come back, and I'm probably never going to.Right now, I'm trying to make my own D&D clone-- old school, but not OSR-- by mashing up third-party Pathfinder content (mostly Rogue Genius and Purple Duck) with Retroroleplaying's Microlite retroclones and I'm running AD&D games in the meantime, until I've got something to playtest.</blockquote>

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