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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chuangel" data-source="post: 4006746" data-attributes="member: 56274">Thumbs up!D&D 3.5 was cool before I was married and had time to play for 8 hours at a time, but when you reduce that down to a three or four hour period, you can only get like three or four encounters in. When you're only playing once a month or so, a campaign can take years because each quest is like three to four sessions long. I'm finishing up a campaign now (as DM) that has been going on for a year and a half and each quest they gained a level from fighting three different battles (yeah, I had to like triple the experience, pretty lame). I was a little skeptical at first, when they claimed to be increasing the amount of customization your character had while making the actual gameplay simpler...  then I played SAGA Edition. Now I have faith in them. Now you can go through a whole big adventure in about half the time it took before. You spend more time playing a less time bookkeeping, and I think that is key. It just makes it more fun. I understand you need to have a robust rules system, but SAGA proved that it doesn't have to be complex. You want complex? Play a computer game, then the computer takes care of the bookkeeping.Sorry, pretty longwinded, but as a person who absolutely loves the game but doesn't have much time to play at a time, I'm all for streamlined gameplay, and the added character customization you can do between sessions.</blockquote>