How many folks are still playing/running 3e?

[malkav666]

I want know how many of you are still playing in 3e games (on either side of the DM screen). More importantly, I want to know what source materials are being used in those games.

For example my groups for 3e are as follows:

group 1: 3e Dungeonaday.com using SRD+ "complete books" + BOEM I&II 1/week

group 2: 3.5e rise of the runelords game using SRD+ 1 additional book per character (I let them all choose an additional book aside from the players handbook, another at level 8) 2/month


I am mainly curious because despite the activities on this web site and others I read, I am seeing some local scenes that are quite different than the "community" I am seeing on the interwebs. I am also interested in broadening my horizons in the arena of 3.x source material from 3pp (I own as much of the 1pp source I want). So I also intend to use these thread as kind of a laundry list of things to check out.

So if you are playing 3e, tell me how often, as a player or a DM, and what source materials you are using, and any other information that is pertinent to your game please.

Note: I am not interested in why you are playing 3e or why you are not (or any in depth discussion of the edition, be they praises or criticisms), just whether or not you are, and how you are doing it. Please do not include commentary about 4e or any other system (be they praises or criticisms) in my thread. Please do not post in my thread just to trash 3e and say you are not playing it.

love,

malkav

edit:grammar and spelling

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Monkey is still playing 3.5, though I only use WotC materials. Could never afford to branch out very much. Though I am starting to explore True 20 a bit, if that counts.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I play in one 3.5 game (with most or all WoTC sources available), and in two 3.5/Pathfinder Beta games (with most or all WoTC sources available). All told, we play an average of five or six sessions a month.

 

[amysrevenge]

Nope. None of the 40+ local gamers I know are playing 3.x anymore (well, of that 40+ I can say with confidence that 25 or so are definitely not, and I suspect that the other 15 or so are not but have no direct eveidence of such).

I hope this doesn't count as trashing the edition, which I played and loved for 8 years. Just adding a data point for you.

 

[Thanee]

Yep, still playing 3.5 (also playing 4E).

Books allowed: All WotC 3.5 sources.

Bye
Thanee

 

[kenmarable]

I still have one 3.5 campaign going that I am co-DMing with another player. I'm using the Curse of the Crimson Throne and a few other Paizo modules because they are awesome. The other DMing is homebrewing the setting although I'm throwing in relevant aspects from Golarion for the Crimson Throne. We are using the duskblade and beguiler from PHB 2, as well as favored soul from wherever that was from (Complete Divine I think??).

I also DMed two other campaigns that have stalled that I really hope to finish someday and most likely will finish them in 3.5 still. One went from Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil to Red Hand of Doom, and has an artificer PC from Eberron, heavy use of psionics, and the intelligent items rules and some locations from Malhavoc's Complete Book of Eldritch Might. Toying with some incarnum with one of the PCs, but we'll see.

The other stalled campaign is all over the map. Occurs in the Underdark and Shadow Plane(s) using parts of Open Design's Castle Shadowcrag and Empire of the Ghouls, plus Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, Expedition to the Demonweb Pits, and City of the Spider Queen. PCs are using Savage Species, Tome of Magic (all three sections), and Book of 9 Swords.

Generally, I allow pretty much anything people are interested in and if it's insanely powerful in play, we tweak it down. I'd say that the "major" companies you can't really go wrong, and go ahead and pick up whatever interests you. With the like of Paizo, Green Ronin, Malhavoc, and Open Design their stuff is well balanced and interesting. Oh, and if you ever even consider psionics, Dreamscarred all the way. They produced better psionic material than WotC.

There were quite a few really fun adventures that came out (especially from Paizo and Open Design) to the point that I have to just use parts to mich mash a campaign together because there's simply no time to play through them all.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I'm running a 3.5 game and playing in another one. Both allow most but not all WotC products and not really any 3rd party stuff. I've used some of the critter catalogue creatures in my games, that's about it. I have AE and would like to play in (not run, at least not till I've played) a game of it, but none of my friends are much interested in it at all.

I got the free paizo pdf, and I guess I'd try a game of it, but I don't really like their changes compared to standard 3.5 and my own houserules.

I'd also be theoretically open to trying a game of d20 modern or BESM, but definitely not going to be DMing any games of that. I might pick up Iron Heroes down the road, no other plans for 3pp purchases.

 

[Obryn]

No D&D 3.x right now. I am, however, running a d20 game (specifically Call of Cthulhu d20) on occasion, as a switch from 4e.

-O

 

[an_idol_mind]

Still playing 3.5. The system is the three core books and a few house rules.

I'm also using the Night Below boxed set from 2nd edition, adapting that on the fly to 3.5.

The current plan is to switch over to Pathfinder at the start of my next campaign, but that might be a year or more from now.

 

[Nebten]

Still running a 3.5 game with most WotC matterial.

At our gaming store, 3.x games are still going strong and when a new one starts up it gets filled quickly. With the 4th ed games, they are hard to get people to attened and petter out pretty quickly. They've tried intro games, quick rules, but nothing is sticking. And this store started up after 4th ed came out, so go figure.