D&D 3E/3.5 How are You Wrapping Up 3.5?

[vagabonvoid]

Right now my group has just started the final 3.x campaign I will DM (and since i am the only one who owns any rulebooks, it's my choice-evil laugh ).

The plot is each player built a character with a CR of around 20. Most of the characters have a background based on previous campaigns (ex: the player who played a crusader who took down Strahd in the last ravenloft game is playing the "son of strahd" in this game). The characters must quest into Hell and the Abyss to find a kidnapped Feychild. Just to give the scale of the campaign... I broke out the colossal Red Dragon miniature and used a CR 20 dragon on them as their first enemy (all they had to do is to sneak past it, ignore the deck of many things in the treasure pile, and climb into the well of many worlds to get to Hell... but no, they ended up in hand to hand combat with it...).

This campaign should wrap up around the time of 4E...

 

[Moon-Lancer]

just about to start part 4 in red hand. after part 5, I hope to play a druid in another 3.5 game. Even though 4e is around the corner theirs still alot of 3.5 in me. I'm going to switch, and I have the boxed set on order, but theirs just too much fun to be had to give it all up once right when 4e comes out. So eventually I'm going to play 4e when the time is right... But before that I'm going to finish dming red hand and after that I'm going to be player and play a druid.

 

[Shemeska]

We're nearing the end of a campaign, but it's only a coincidence that it's happening around the time 4e is about to come out. Once it's over, we've got a Shadowrun game, a Mage game, and a 3e FR game still kicking and not going anywhere. The group as a whole is somewhere between jaded when it comes to 4e or wanting to nuke it from orbit. A bunch of mid-late 20'something professionals with lots of disposable income, but WotC doesn't look to gain much of that in the next year (White Wolf, SR, and the IRS look to be the big winners if my own habits are any indication).

That said, with my own campaign looming on an end, they'll be facing or potentially facing: a vampiric Alisohn Nilesia, Gith (the person, not the race), bladeling religious zealots inside their capital city of Zoronar, a long extinct race of Acheron natives known as the Hassitor, a pissed off Dagos of the Dark 8, an incestous cabal of minor yugoloth lords, and Nelaziim the Crimson Simoniac - a molydeus proxy of Pale Night.

 

[Perun]

I'm running an on-again-off-again Eberron game that will just... die the moment I get my hands on the 4e rules

Our regular DM is not overly enthusiastic about 4e (ha says we haven't even playtested 3e yet :\ ), and we don't really know what will happen to his epic-at-1st-level FR campaign.

On the positive side, one of the players, and formerly one of the DMs in the group, is seriously considering taking up the DM mantle again, once the 4e rules are released. So it might just happen I get to play 4e before giving a shot at DMing. Yay!

Regards.

 

[mhensley]

My 3.5 game just ended with my group of over-powered munchkin 12th level pc's trashing a 14th level dungeon and killing the 16th level BBEG like it was nothing. We all decided that the game was truly broken at that point and voted to end the campaign. It left a very bad taste in my mouth and doesn't give me a lot of faith in 4e seeing as it's being designed by the same group of people that did the books that so broke 3e. :\

I honestly don't know what we will play next.

 

[WayneLigon]

Not likely. We'll probably, briefly, pick back up the Eberron campaign in eight or nine months to finish it off since I don't think anyone will have picked up the 4E rules by then.

We briefly toyed with the idea of 'saying goodbye' to 2E on the official release date but after two months of playing 3E with the pre-release stuff from here and WoTC we could't make ourselves even read the old rules.

 

[Wolfspider]

My 3.5 game just ended with my group of over-powered munchkin 12th level pc's trashing a 14th level dungeon and killing the 16th level BBEG like it was nothing. We all decided that the game was truly broken at that point and voted to end the campaign. It left a very bad taste in my mouth and doesn't give me a lot of faith in 4e seeing as it's being designed by the same group of people that did the books that so broke 3e. :\

In your opinion, what are the books that broke 3rd edition?

 

[WampusCat43]

In our previous FR campaign, the PCs were defeated by Dragotha in the Age of Worms (this also defeated any desire to play with high-level characters in 3e). Their new (low-level) characters, hundreds of miles away, are feeling the effects of that loss. Local higher-level NPCs spread out into the countryside recently looking for the mayor's wife (an early plot hook). The few that returned tell of the area being overrun with worm-infested undead.

How the current PCs deal with this threat will determine the condition of their town 100 years later, when the points-of-light, spell-plagued FR kicks in.

 

[am181d]

The campaign I'm running is a specifically designed 3e cap. The "Third Age" is going to end soon, and those who acquit themselves heroically in the final days will be rewarded in the fourth age. Characters are wrangling to become kings, immortals, even gods before the world ends in May/June.

They're gaining approximately one level per session, plus I'll be working in a lot of big villains, name artifacts, etc. over the next couple months.

 

[TarionzCousin]

All the characters fall in lava.*




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Spoiler

No save. They all die.