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<blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 3345690" data-attributes="member: 7701">My situation has turned out rather strangely.For 2e, I had - and used - virtually all the supplemental material, right through and including the Complete Ninja's Handbook. We even used a couple of the PO books (notably Combat &amp; Tactics, but not Skills &amp; Powers). And everything worked well enough for us - after massive tweaking and fixing. The lack of any consistent mechanics was a brutal problem, but the material that was there was at least inspiring. But like I said - a pain to use and time-consuming to fix.But in those days, I had time. Nowadays, I am more inclined to use a 3e supplemental book - but I don't. I've ignored large swaths of rules material for the last couple of years now, simply because I've grown older and have other things to do in my life now. I don't have time to go through all these optional books to pull out a couple things that I might be interested in, and I'm just not interested in making the time to do so. All my purchases these days are adventures and FR expansions.Thus, my situation turned out to be weird and counterintuitive: I used more 2e stuff and it was crappy, and I ignore more 3e stuff even though it's far better (mechanically, at least... virtually none of it is inspiring). Ah, life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arnwyn, post: 3345690, member: 7701"] My situation has turned out rather strangely. For 2e, I had - and used - virtually all the supplemental material, right through and including the [i]Complete Ninja's Handbook[/i]. We even used a couple of the PO books (notably [i]Combat & Tactics[/i], but not [i]Skills & Powers[/i]). And everything worked well enough for us - after massive tweaking and fixing. The lack of any consistent mechanics was a brutal problem, but the material that was there was at least inspiring. But like I said - a pain to use and time-consuming to fix. But in those days, I had time. Nowadays, I am more inclined to use a 3e supplemental book - but I don't. I've ignored large swaths of rules material for the last couple of years now, simply because I've grown older and have other things to do in my life now. I don't have time to go through all these optional books to pull out a couple things that I might be interested in, and I'm just not interested in making the time to do so. All my purchases these days are adventures and FR expansions. Thus, my situation turned out to be weird and counterintuitive: I used more 2e stuff and it was crappy, and I ignore more 3e stuff even though it's far better (mechanically, at least... virtually none of it is inspiring). Ah, life. [/QUOTE]

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