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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 3609208" data-attributes="member: 2182">I never intended this to be a "goodbye" thread; I stated up front that I like 3e.  The intention of this thread was to point out that, contrary to apparent popular belief, 2e had some really good material written for it.  Secondly, much of this great material hasn't been converted to 3e, and is rather difficult to convert.For example: DarkSun - I loved this setting because it was so different.  There exist several unofficial conversions, but they fail to capture the feel of the setting as presented in 2e.  Part of the reason it is so hard to capture the feel of the setting with 3e rules is that the setting was inherently unbalanced!  The evil defilers gained experience twice as fast because defiling magic was easier to master.  With 3e all classes gain XP at the same rate, eliminating the corrupting lure of defiling magic.  In 2e Dark Sun all character had a psionic "wild talent".  How would this work in 3e?  Would all characters gain a free level of psion?  A random psionic power?  Would I have to redo the entire 3.5e psionics system?Ravenloft - Another favorite setting of mine.  The problem here is not that 3e rules fail to work with the setting, but rather the time it would take to convert everything.  White Wolf's Ravenloft focused way to much on the core domains (which I always felt were way to clichéd) and left out the Islands of Terror which made the setting worthwhile (IMHO).  All of the Darklords of those domains were written under 2e rules which were based on a different set of assumptions than 3e.  Sure, I could convert them to 3e, but I would have to rebuild them from ground up trying to come up with class, skills, and feat selection that emulate the  way the character was portrayed under 2e rules.Sounds good.  The more that I see about Castles and Crusades, the more I like it.  BTW, with a 3rd printing of the PHB coming out, do you think it would be worthwhile to wait for it?</blockquote>

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