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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8454684" data-attributes="member: 8863">Familiars were a class feature for sorcerers and wizards in 3.0 as well.I still prefer 3.0 in general to 3.5 though there are usable things from 3.5.&nbsp; 3.0 at least made an effort to try to work with older material but it wasn't always successful.&nbsp; But 3.5 material from mid 2005 or so onwards just seems to want to throw the old stuff out instead of making a serious effort to patch up the flaws.&nbsp; And of course the hardcore minmaxing charoper is just as much a problem player as the method acting drama queen that has to find any excuse to not work with the party because it's &quot;roleplaying&quot; and totally &quot;in character&quot;.I've been looking over the 3.5 material and the impression is that DM facing material generally tends to be better.&nbsp; In general, the monster splats are pretty good, but the race splats tend to be garbage.&nbsp; The class splats tend to fall in between.&nbsp; I think too that employee turnover at WotC didn't help either; the later designers took the game off in directions I often don't care for.&nbsp; There are a few of the designers who tend to be red flags for me; if I see their name on a book, I usually feel I'm not going to like it, and that usually end up being the case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8454684, member: 8863"] Familiars were a class feature for sorcerers and wizards in 3.0 as well. I still prefer 3.0 in general to 3.5 though there are usable things from 3.5. 3.0 at least made an effort to try to work with older material but it wasn't always successful. But 3.5 material from mid 2005 or so onwards just seems to want to throw the old stuff out instead of making a serious effort to patch up the flaws. And of course the hardcore minmaxing charoper is just as much a problem player as the method acting drama queen that has to find any excuse to not work with the party because it's "roleplaying" and totally "in character". I've been looking over the 3.5 material and the impression is that DM facing material generally tends to be better. In general, the monster splats are pretty good, but the race splats tend to be garbage. The class splats tend to fall in between. I think too that employee turnover at WotC didn't help either; the later designers took the game off in directions I often don't care for. There are a few of the designers who tend to be red flags for me; if I see their name on a book, I usually feel I'm not going to like it, and that usually end up being the case. [/QUOTE]

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