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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3114759" data-attributes="member: 32740">Part of your problem is likely because you are still clinging to Ye Auld Rules from AD&amp;D and it messes with your sensibilities.&nbsp; What I kept telling people several years ago when everyone was still making the adjustment from AD&amp;D to 3E is that you must UNLEARN much of what you learned.&nbsp; When you approach 3E from the position of what IT'S rules are telling you rather than what the AD&amp;D rules USED to tell you then you'll immediately start to have fewer issues.&nbsp; Rules like flanking and Attacks of Opportunity are cumbersome when you're still thinking in AD&amp;D terms, but in 3E terms they make much more sense and fit with what the 3E system is doing.&nbsp; Making direct comparisons between 3E rules and AD&amp;D rules just doesn't work.&nbsp; The systems are too different to draw much more than general comparison.&nbsp; It will likely be 6 months to a year of playing before you really become decently familiar with 3E and I would encourage you to give the system AS-IS that much time.&nbsp; You need to learn 3E much better before you start gutting it for house rules.3E DOES have more options, which can make it SEEM to be more complex and cumbersome, but it's rules are VASTLY better integrated into a unified whole.&nbsp; AD&amp;D just seems quicker, easier, and more streamlined because you are intimately familar with it and just beginning to come to grips with a significantly new and different approach to fundamentals of the game.In a word, yes.&nbsp; The game was designed and extensively tested with these rules that you're prepared to just throw out.Well if the PLAYERS are still learning the 3E system as well you're really not doing anyone any favors.&nbsp; If you play regularly for a year I all but guarantee that your concerns will be completely moot.&nbsp; Attacks of Opportunity and Flanking rules will be second nature to you and your players.&nbsp; You might have OTHER issues at that point, but when you look back you won't be able to understand what your problem had been anymore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 3114759, member: 32740"] Part of your problem is likely because you are still clinging to Ye Auld Rules from AD&D and it messes with your sensibilities. What I kept telling people several years ago when [I]everyone[/I] was still making the adjustment from AD&D to 3E is that you must UNLEARN much of what you learned. When you approach 3E from the position of what IT'S rules are telling you rather than what the AD&D rules USED to tell you then you'll immediately start to have fewer issues. Rules like flanking and Attacks of Opportunity are cumbersome when you're still thinking in AD&D terms, but in 3E terms they make much more sense and fit with what the 3E system is doing. Making direct comparisons between 3E rules and AD&D rules just doesn't work. The systems are too different to draw much more than general comparison. It will likely be 6 months to a year of playing before you really become decently familiar with 3E and I would encourage you to give the system AS-IS that much time. You need to learn 3E much better before you start gutting it for house rules. 3E DOES have more options, which can make it SEEM to be more complex and cumbersome, but it's rules are VASTLY better integrated into a unified whole. AD&D just seems quicker, easier, and more streamlined because you are intimately familar with it and just beginning to come to grips with a significantly new and different approach to fundamentals of the game. In a word, yes. The game was designed and extensively tested with these rules that you're prepared to just throw out. Well if the PLAYERS are still learning the 3E system as well you're really not doing anyone any favors. If you play regularly for a year I all but guarantee that your concerns will be completely moot. Attacks of Opportunity and Flanking rules will be second nature to you and your players. You might have OTHER issues at that point, but when you look back you won't be able to understand what your problem had been anymore. [/QUOTE]

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