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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7968863" data-attributes="member: 29398">Played 3e for a good long run of seven years or so, and DMed a mighty total of three sessions within that campaign (long story how I ended up DMing in the middle of someone else's campaign, but it did happen).For most of the run the game was a somewhat-modified version, using the 3e chassis, and this for me-as-player gave an enjoyable game - though I gather it was hell for the DM!.  Later it converted on the fly to near-RAW 3.5 and the flaws really started to show.Without going into huge detail...Good things:Clear distinction between classes, with each having strengths and weaknesses.Simpler mechanics in some ways, when coming from 0-1-2e. (sometimes)The system was still flexible enough to allow for a wide variety of play styles (compare with 4e which really focused on heroic-fantasy)Bad things:Power curve too steep - far too much difference between low level and mid level and high level, for both monsters and characters.Simpler mechanics in some ways, when coming from 0-1-2e. (sometimes)Level advancement way too fast by RAW (4e and 5e have the same problem), and too complicated.Too many feats and powers and so forth; system mastery becomes overly rewarded, cheesy optimizing and specialization is encouraged instead of punished.Far too much emphasis on pre-play character 'building' and planning, as cost of focus on play itself.Multi-classing: a disaster unless none of that character's classes cast spells. (this due to the IMO awful design idea of levels in different classes being additive rather than independent; and 4e and 5e didn't fix this)Putting relatively-easy magic item creation in the hands of the PCs and making all item info player-side knowledge was sheer lunacy.Biggest problem: the underlying M:tG-fueled philosophy change from 0-1-2e (you can try anything unless a rule says you can't) to 3e (you can't try something unless a rule says you can); and 3e's corresponding attempts to have a rule for everything.End result: voted "played but did not like".</blockquote>

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