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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IanArgent" data-source="post: 4498381" data-attributes="member: 21673">I gave up running my own material because of the difficulty of the mechanics; and fell back to running modules, usually with the serial numbers filed off and changes made to fit my campaign.I found it much easier to let someone else deal with the mechanics and change the story if necessary.Got it. Whereas the mechanical complexity of D&D 3e ended up being a deal breaker for me. I didn't want the heavy mechanics of D&D3, the complex interactions of primary and derived stats, the laundry list of spell-like abilities, etc. At first I thought I did. But as time went on, it just got to be a chore. There's some issues with ensuring that the "rules are followed" on the DM side of the screen here - I could have made up stats as I went along. But then where do I peg the XP values? Unless I wanted to go entirely to session- and goal-based XP rather than XP for encounters I felt as though I needed to ensure that the rules for opponents were followed, since the XP values were tied pretty closely to opponent abilities. Otherwise, what's the point of the ECL system, anyway?</blockquote>