Is 3.x Your Favorite Version of D&D?

[Darrin Drader]

I have to face the fact that I've become the Diaglo of 3rd edition. Does that make me a grognard now? Do I care? Play what you love, love what you play. Maybe 5th edition will bring it back to something I recognize.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I have to face the fact that I've become the Diaglo of 3rd edition. Does that make me a grognard now? Do I care? Play what you love, love what you play. Maybe 5th edition will bring it back to something I recognize.

Pah!

OD&D Diaglo is the true Dialgo. All others are just pale imitations of the real person.

 

[Steely Dan]

I have played since 1978. I have enjoyed every edition more than the one before it.

Me too (well, since 1987), though I don't think I would ever want to DM 3rd Ed again, but I am starting up a Basic or 1st Ed campaign to run alongside my 4th Ed.

All previous editions have been a bit staid for my taste, and 3rd Ed was often like putting together a jigsaw, whereas I would rather sculpt.

 

[Stormtower]

Yes indeed, 3.5 remains my game of choice for homebrews and the kinds of worlds I really prefer to run.

4E is cool, new and shiny, with and it'll be fine for organized play. However, it hasn't set my heart afire enough to convert my homebrew.

OTOH if I had a bunch of rules-exploiting sharks at my table every week, I'd drop 3.5 forever. It's too easily exploited with "all-in" splatbook combos and unintended synergies (also, stacking bonuses from SC spells). My players agree not to play that way, and 3.5 continues to function fabulously for us as a mildly houseruled homebrew system.

 

[Henry]

Yes, by far. After 3E/3.5, I'd go 1E, BEM, early 2E, and with late 2E and 4E tied for last place. (I never played diaglo's D&D. Thankfully.)

Diaglo's D&D is also intensely fun, for a lot of the same reasons that Castles and Crusades is fun - loose framework, build what you want, and don't have to worry about being outclassed by someone who can build a better character than you.

 

[DaveMage]

Was Mark the king of polls in 2006, or what?

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Diaglo's D&D is also intensely fun, for a lot of the same reasons that Castles and Crusades is fun - loose framework, build what you want, and don't have to worry about being outclassed by someone who can build a better character than you.

One, I don't have to worry about being outclassed by someone who can build a better character than me. For me, a "better character" doesn't mean "more powerful." (I do know what you meant. But i don't have to worry about that, either. Although most of us in my group(s) like reasonably optimized characters, not even the worst of us is a rules-rapist. And I wouldn't be in a group with folks that were.)

Two, I'd probably enjoy C&C from what I've seen, but C&C has appreciably more in the way of structure and mechanics than OD&D. Honestly, I don't really see much point to OD&D ... if things are that stripped down, why use any rules at all? Just freeform it, and occasionally roll some dice: "high is good, low is bad."

 

[Doug McCrae]

so far.

qft

 

[DM_Jeff]

Yes, 3.X is easily my favorite.

-DM Jeff

 

[TerraDave]

Pah!

OD&D Diaglo is the true Dialgo. All others are just pale imitations of the real person.

This.

And it was.