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

[drothgery]

I voted yes when this poll was taken originally. And since I still haven't played any 4e except running a PBP through KotS (and I'm only one scene in, there), I'm not sure I'd vote differently yet. 4e's my favorite version in theory; I don't know about in actual play.

 

[DammitVictor]

WISE FWOM YOUAH GWAVE

AD&D Player's Option, hands down; like Unearthed Arcana, not all at once.

3.X is second place if and only if it's 3.PF, Gestalt, with liberal acceptance of first-party supplements.

Third place is Rules Cyclopedia with any tolerable form of multiclassing house rules.

 

[Ancalagon]

WISE FWOM YOUAH GWAVE

AD&D Player's Option, hands down; like Unearthed Arcana, not all at once.

3.X is second place if and only if it's 3.PF, Gestalt, with liberal acceptance of first-party supplements.

Third place is Rules Cyclopedia with any tolerable form of multiclassing house rules.

Why the thread necromancy ?

 

[DammitVictor]

Why the thread necromancy ?

Poll was linked in a post collecting a whole bunch of (active) poll threads, and I felt my answer required more detail than the poll options allowed.

 

[Phototoxin]

5th followed by 4th then 3rd then AD&D.

 

[Erekose]

Ironically the more I hear about Pathfinder 2E the more it makes me appreciate D&D 3E!

 

[Thomas Bowman]

Ironically the more I hear about Pathfinder 2E the more it makes me appreciate D&D 3E!

Game Designers always like to innovate and introduce new additions of their games. I like add ons to 3.X rather than new editions, if I learn how to play a game, I'd rather buy new game material that goes with it rather than another new and improved version of the Core rules, how about some new adventures using existing rules rather than new ways to roll dice?

 

[Skepticultist]

Nope. 3.5 was the death of D&D, as far as I'm concerned. Spot and Search destroyed player skill, and Feats, Prestige Classes, the new Multiclassing rules and the whole concept of "Builds" introduced a different, uglier form of player skill ("system mastery") that makes the game completely unfun and tiresome to run and throughly punishes players who aren't interested in collecting rulebooks and minmaxing their characters.

I'll stick to Basic D&D, thanks.

EDIT: Oh lord, I didn't catch that this thread had been necro'd from ten years ago. I thought the question seemed odd.

 

[ccs]

Nope.
Not my favorite edition when this thread was new, still not my favorite edition 10+ years later.

That honor belongs to 1e.

It goes: 1e, 5e, PF, 2e/3x, & BEcmi/Compendium.
And no, I didn't forget 4e. It simply doesn't make the list.

 

[DM Howard]

With the design of 5th and the design snippets we have seen from Pathfinder 2.0, I am certainly starting to appreciate the 3.x rule set much more than I used to.