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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masshysteria" data-source="post: 7971348" data-attributes="member: 16055">My introduction to D&D happened through the old SSI computer games and continued through Bioware's Baldur's Gate games. But I never actually played "real" Dungeons and Dragons until 3.5. It wasn't for a lack of wanting to play, but more where do I start and who am I going to play with.When D&D 3 was finally released, I found myself with a Players Handbook, but not much to do with it. It wasn't until 3.5 was around that I found a group of people that I wanted to play with and they wanted to play with me.I always had this strange tension with 3.5. I love the Forgotten Realms book, Eberron was amazing, and some of my best gaming memories come from this time period. But all the system mastery was never my thing. I wanted to let my imagination lead character creation and not plan out level 1 to 20 builds. So, I never felt like I got to be effective with what I really wanted to play. While I was having fun, I was always a little frustrated.It lead to a lot of reading about alternate systems, like Iron Heroes and Arcana Evolved. But, I never went so far as to buy into one of those system. Eventually, 3.5 seemed to collapse under its own crunch creep for me. Nowhere was this felt better than our last hurrah in 3.5, the storied Paizo Rise of the Runelords AP. We allowed whatever sources people had access to and it ended up a broken game. We eventually retired some character and built new ones, just to bring the game back in focus.By the time 4e was released, I welcomed it with open arms. My gaming group, not so much. We moved on to Pathfinder, but real life responsibilities ended up splitting up the group and most of my gaming was put on hold.Today, if someone wanted to run a 3.5 game, I'd gladly join, but I have no desire to DM one. I still want to try playing a Beguiler and have learned enough in my time not to worry if my character isn't perfect and just to enjoy what I have because of the flaws.</blockquote>

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