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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7963895" data-attributes="member: 508">I haven't stopped playing 3.0/3.5 since it came out and I still love it.  I have enough material for this version of the game that I could literally never buy another D&D product again and still have more than enough gaming material for the rest of my life.  As a result - and because I and my players still enjoy the 3.5 version - I have never seen a need to even give the other subsequent versions of the game a try.  From what I've seen of 4th Edition I personally would not enjoy it at all; from what I've seen of 5th Edition it seems like it would do in a pinch of I didn't have 3.5 around - but fortunately I do, so there's no need.  I honestly do not envision myself ever switching from 3.5 to a new edition.I'm currently at the last legs (the PCs are 19th-level) of DMing my second full-blown 20-level 3.5 campaign with the same group of players and have been a player in my son's three 3.5 campaigns (the recent one is still in the early stages: we're at 6th level).  While I admit the higher up in level you get the more work is involved in statting up the monsters and running the combats, I've enjoyed all levels of the campaigns.  Fortunately, none of my players are really into min-maxing so we haven't run into problems on those fronts and we pretty much stick to the core rulebooks with only the occasional dip into anything beyond that, so we've avoided a lot of the problems others have pointed out are inherent to the 3.0/3.5 edition.  But the inherent flexibility of the system has allowed us to create a bunch of really interesting characters that it has been a pleasure to spend time with over these past few decades.Johnathan</blockquote>

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