Have you become disillusioned with 3rd edition?

[Blue_Kryptonite]

I had to go with the "something else entirely" option. I don't actually run anything produced by some one else. I developed my own system

Same here. Mine is in the works, since no one has time to play right now. Its based around M&M and Champions (we honestly enjoy the clatter of lots of dice) for chargen, but the resolution mechanics combine Plot Points and Drama Dice to "bid" into influencing the action, action called by initiative but resolved in inverse order of lethality, and Upping The Ante where in all combats can end up with people Insulted, Offended, Bruised, Injured, Wounded, Unconscious, or Dead, with the final level determined by who wins.

 

[JoeBlank]

Still playing 3.5, pretty much RAW, and very happy with it.

I play in a 3.5 game that is up to 13th-14th level, and I'm still having a blast.

I DM a World's Largest Dungeon campaign, with very few rules tweaks for flavor.

I also play in diaglo's OD&D game. It is not my system of choice, but given the guy's enthusiasm wouldn't you play in his game? As others have said, the players and the GM make the game, not the system.

I'd love to give AU/AE, C&C, and Grim Tales a try, but I just don't have enough gaming time to try everything.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Enjoy more? Nope. Still play? Yup. I've been enjoying Warhammer 2nd ed with one of my buddies every couple of weeks. Wish he'd get his stuff together so that he could run it more often, but hey, what are you going to do?

 

[Azul]

Disillusioned? Egad, you make it sound like D&D was an ideology or something. Am I bored with 3.x or dissappointed with how it has evolved? Meh. It's not a perfect system by any means but it's still fun and easily accessible for most of my players.

The game itself is still fun and my group of players enjoys playing it. We do use some house rules but that has more to do with accomodating our personal tastes than trying to rewrite the game.

As for recent WotC products, I find they are a mixed bag. The monster and environment series aren't bad. The races books do nothing for me. It's pretty hit or miss as to whether I'll find a new WotC book appealing and/or useful. Doesn't mean I'm disillusioned. It just means that I have a large selection of 3.x books already and find it hard to make full use of what I already own.

 

[francisca]

I'm just curious how many people here are still playing 3rd edition (3.0/3.5) or you've managed to find some other offshoot that you enjoy more?

I voted something else, because I went back to running older editions.

I am not disillusioned with 3.x. I think it is an OK system, I enjoyed running it, until it got to be a chore at the end of my 3 year run of my homebrew. I still play 3.x.

I'd say I had grown tired of DMing it, bordering on "fed up" with straight up 3.X. But far from disillusioned. I mean, I never woke up one morning and looked at the core 3 books and yelled, "You're not the game I brought home from the FLGS anymore!!", or anything like that.

 

[Chaos Sword]

I play 3.5 pretty much straight up. I enjoy it and in my opinion it is the best version so far. My son had no trouble learning it.

 

[helium3]

Funnily enough, it's not the game I've become disillusioned with.

It's a lot of the gamers.

Rather than concentrate on having fun, they'd rather nitpick obscure little rulings and twink thier characters out to be a gaming table stud and lord thier power over other players.

BINGO!!!!!

I still love 3.5 in all its ugly glory.

 

[MerricB]

When I look at the problems people have with gamers today, and I think back to the group I was playing with in the mid-80s...

Yes, people don't change.

Cheers!

 

[diaglo]

When I look at the problems people have with gamers today, and I think back to the group I was playing with in the mid-80s...

Yes, people don't change.

Cheers!

diaglo "not changing the game he is playing since the 70's" Ooi

 

[Quasqueton]

When I look at the problems people have with gamers today, and I think back to the group I was playing with in the mid-80s...

Yes, people don't change.

Cheers!

Yep. Those who doubt this: take out any of the old (1970'-80's) Dragon magazines and read the letters/forum pages. The game and the Players are essentially the same.

Quasqueton