Favorite Change in any D&D edition

[SKyOdin]

I like 4E's decision to make Fighters not only be on par strength-wise with Wizards, but have similarly cool powers to boot.

 

[frankthedm]

Huh? They work almost exactly the same way.

Agree with the confusion. Now 4E's change to only give a few creatures reach based OA's was a HUGE improvement.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

I'll list two that haven't been mentioned yet

4e: Death to iterative attacks
4e: Inherent bonuses

 

[JiffyPopTart]

The greatest change for me was the allowance of any race to be any class, and any class to multiclass with any other class in 3e.

It was like the character options went from 25 to 2500.

DS

 

[Animus]

So many good ones in this thread. But seeing as I spend most of my time as a DM, I'd have to say the 4E monster rules are on the top of my list, as of now.

 

[Dedekind]

The multiclassing in 3e was an incredibly cool idea to me. Yeah, there were problems, and, yes, I didn't use it that much. But the fundamental idea was golden.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

My favorite addition were feats. I loved them as ways to give a focus or theme to your character and loved how they let you have two of the same class that could play very different.

 

[Festivus]

AD&D -> 3.x: Death of THAC0. At one point I had a computer that did all the table lookups for me (TRS-80) which really sped things up, but still... ick.

3.5 -> 4E: Monster stat blocks being decoupled from player rules... because I no longer need to lug along a monster manual AND a players handbook to understand how a monster works... all the rules in one stat block is elegant.

 

[Sadrik]

Fighters with abilities (feats)

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

One of my favorites was the change to the magic creation rules in 3e. It was far from perfect, but I loved the fact that creating a magic item was no longer just something for NPCs or that PCs did after they reached name level, bought a tower and retired from adventuring.