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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackwind" data-source="post: 3347074" data-attributes="member: 1205">Oh, yes, happily indeed...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  You make an interesting point, though -- obviously there are a lot of DMs who use the 3.x rules supplements and homebrew settings, plots, NPCs, et al., some of whom are not interested in buying other people's fluff.  On the other hand, there are a lot of DMs who really enjoy using published settings and adventures.As a DM, one of my issues with the 3.x ruleset is that its rules-heavy and statistics-intensive nature means that the 'rulesy' aspects of game prep (statting out NPCs, calculating ELs, etc) take up way too much of my time -- and they're not very much fun, either.  This leaves me with less time and energy to work on the aspects of game prep that I do like: the aforementioned setting, plot, and character development.  That's why I tried using Eberron (and published modules for Eberron) in the first place.  Needless to say, I burned out on that pretty quickly because it took all the fun out of DMing (for me).  Now I'm back to homebrewing.  In other words, I too "am perfectly capable of using my imagination to come up with setting and fluff," but I also like to read other people's work for inspiration.  I do not find poorly written, rules-heavy splatbooks to be terribly inspiring.For me, this may come down to a general dissatisfaction with the system (i.e., the 3.x ruleset).  I was very enthusiastic when 3.0 came out, and made the switch to 3.5 without too much griping. I own a good number of rules and setting supplements both from WotC and third parties.  But the more I DM 3.x, the less I like it.  So, has 3E become too much like 2E?  In some ways yes, in some ways no.  IMO the similarity is that there are a lot of crappy supplements being published, but the supplements are crappy in different ways.  In general, you could say that the 2E splatbooks had decent fluff and really, really bad crunch.  The 3E splatbooks have decent crunch and very little fluff at all -- and what fluff there is, is pretty lame.</blockquote>

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