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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 7966235" data-attributes="member: 6563">I had taken a couple years off from AD&D and discovered some rumblings about a new edition on some website by some guy named Eric Noah. I followed the rumors and the scraps of info that got shared until I was hyped and became a regular on the burgeoning boards on his site. By the time 3e had released, I bought it as soon as possible. I loved so much of what they did to the game that I could overlook some of the things that I didn't like (like the emphasis on tactical combat and battlemats). Was a bit of a zealot buying just about everything I could (until the glut that followed 3.5), and even switched to 3.5 will only a little grumbling.After the relase of 3.5, my attempts at trying to own all the supplements met with defeat as the release schedule ramped up faster and faster. I also started to become dismayed as to how important it was to preplan character advancement if you wanted to get certain feats and prestige classes, at some point breaking out Excel to help me with character planning. Still I felt it was a step up from AD&D.This was also the edition that I started subscribing to both Dragon and Dungeon. Paizo rocked those magazines.When news of 4e started to break, I was cautiously excited. I was annoyed that another edition appeared so soon, but I was also hoping that they'd fix the wonky and broken bits of the system. I started becoming concerned with the way they were marketing it, and with how they were changing the lore and representation of some of the monsters. Then when I saw that it was going to be whole different system rather than an attempt to refine, fix, and improve the existing system I said nope and continued playing 3.5 up to the playtest for "D&D Next".</blockquote>

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