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<blockquote data-quote="Tessarael" data-source="post: 1188778" data-attributes="member: 12909">I think what I miss most are the Spells and Magic, Skills and Powers (Pills and Scours), and Combat and Tactics books. Why?In some respects, they allowed more detailed customization of your class. Multiclassing and dual classing were nicely fixed in 3E, but prestige classes giving armor and weapons or spellcasting levels can be unbalanced sometimes. I like the fact that you could create spellcasters with penalties such as taboos and other things.Fatigue spellcasting, free spells, spell points instead of fixed spells of each level. These were nice ideas. They didn't work perfectly, but it's a pity 3E stuck to a fixed&nbsp; x spells of level y system - spell points is much nicer.Oh and the high level handbook in some respects. More choice for what special ability your character got, and you could get that with CPs - in some respects, feats were not as scarce.I'm not entirely happy with the 3E feat system ... I'm always lacking enough feats, unless I take a Fighter, and it's even worse for multiclassed characters. Feat chains are painful.Magic item creation: no feats needed! This was a nice 2nd edition feature ... It's a pain to take a spellcaster and then have to burn multiple feats on magic item creation, when it would be more fun to take metamagic feats.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tessarael, post: 1188778, member: 12909"] I think what I miss most are the Spells and Magic, Skills and Powers (Pills and Scours), and Combat and Tactics books. Why? In some respects, they allowed more detailed customization of your class. Multiclassing and dual classing were nicely fixed in 3E, but prestige classes giving armor and weapons or spellcasting levels can be unbalanced sometimes. I like the fact that you could create spellcasters with penalties such as taboos and other things. Fatigue spellcasting, free spells, spell points instead of fixed spells of each level. These were nice ideas. They didn't work perfectly, but it's a pity 3E stuck to a fixed x spells of level y system - spell points is much nicer. Oh and the high level handbook in some respects. More choice for what special ability your character got, and you could get that with CPs - in some respects, feats were not as scarce. I'm not entirely happy with the 3E feat system ... I'm always lacking enough feats, unless I take a Fighter, and it's even worse for multiclassed characters. Feat chains are painful. Magic item creation: no feats needed! This was a nice 2nd edition feature ... It's a pain to take a spellcaster and then have to burn multiple feats on magic item creation, when it would be more fun to take metamagic feats. [/QUOTE]

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