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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6009651" data-attributes="member: 11697"><p>It's a tie for me between late 2e and early-mid 3.x. In late 2e the sheer amount and quality of fan-created material that I remember from places like Mimir.net was spectacular, and some of it continues to inspire me now. I regret that I wasn't playing the game during that period and didn't get into writing either fan material or freelancing till later on.</p><p></p><p>I saw a period of the same in 3.x in various places, including over on the WotC forums and elsewhere, but which waned towards the end of 3.x and utterly died once 4e came out (traffic on the WotC forums took a serious hit compared to 3e, and other places like Candlekeep became desolate after the 4e changes to FR).</p><p></p><p>That said, I'm starting to see a rekindling of the same with Pathfinder fan material and OGL stuff as well in the past year or two (and 5e might get a boost of the same once it comes out depending on a lot of things, though their OGL or otherwise status is up in the air).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 6009651, member: 11697"] It's a tie for me between late 2e and early-mid 3.x. In late 2e the sheer amount and quality of fan-created material that I remember from places like Mimir.net was spectacular, and some of it continues to inspire me now. I regret that I wasn't playing the game during that period and didn't get into writing either fan material or freelancing till later on. I saw a period of the same in 3.x in various places, including over on the WotC forums and elsewhere, but which waned towards the end of 3.x and utterly died once 4e came out (traffic on the WotC forums took a serious hit compared to 3e, and other places like Candlekeep became desolate after the 4e changes to FR). That said, I'm starting to see a rekindling of the same with Pathfinder fan material and OGL stuff as well in the past year or two (and 5e might get a boost of the same once it comes out depending on a lot of things, though their OGL or otherwise status is up in the air). [/QUOTE]
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