Is your love for 3E waning? Waxing? Staying steady?
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Can't wait to see what comes down the road.Broken Fang
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I'm falling into a bit of a decline with role-playing in general...can't seem to find a group that likes to play like I do. It hasn't fallen away yet but is slowly...still playing in an Amber PBEM. I'm also finding more time to play Warhammer 40K...which is a good thing because I have much more money invested in books and two armies than I will ever have in D&D stuff.
the Jester
Legend
Waxing. I'm running a high-level campaign that is verging towards very high-level, with beholders and mind flayers and all kinds of stuff (it's all in my story hour, link in sig). It's great fun. I don't think I've ever been as excited about a game as I am these days.
Gumby
First Post
Waning a fair bit. I still like it, but I've been working on campaign plans for an epic campaign for about a year now, and now that I've given Exalted a look, I'm thinking I'd rather just use that instead and see if I can't get my players to translate their characters. It probably wouldn't work, but I really want to ST Exalted, preferably with a little of the setting thrown out.
I think I'm just tired of arguing over Haste, Persistent Spell, and Order of the Bow Initiates with my friends, along with ye olde "throw four levels of fighter and three of rogue" character plans.
I think I'm just tired of arguing over Haste, Persistent Spell, and Order of the Bow Initiates with my friends, along with ye olde "throw four levels of fighter and three of rogue" character plans.
Wormwood
Adventurer
Waxing.
The more I delve into the guts of the system, the more I consider it's possibilities, the more my respect for it's designers grows.
Unfortunately, my DM is stuck in 'pre 3' mode, and his game is an excrutiating morass of ad hoc rulings, gross imbalance, and DM whim.
I can't wait to play a real 3e game.
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The more I delve into the guts of the system, the more I consider it's possibilities, the more my respect for it's designers grows.
Unfortunately, my DM is stuck in 'pre 3' mode, and his game is an excrutiating morass of ad hoc rulings, gross imbalance, and DM whim.
I can't wait to play a real 3e game.
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Trevalon Moonleirion
Explorer
Oh it's waxin', baby, it's waxin'!
Well... maybe not...I just thought that sounded funny...
I love 3e just as much as the day it came out and my interest certainly isn't waning...I sure as hell miss playing...been too busy doin crap lately to play!!!
Well... maybe not...I just thought that sounded funny...
I love 3e just as much as the day it came out and my interest certainly isn't waning...I sure as hell miss playing...been too busy doin crap lately to play!!!
Mercule
Adventurer
A bit of both, actually.
Waning only because I miss some of the games I used to play (don't have time for more than one concurrent game). I've got an itch to play in the World of Darkness.
I've always liked Mage. I haven't tried Hunter and I've got at least one player who has owned the book since it was released and hasn't read a word of it because I told him I thought it'd be more fun to come in ignorant. Also, after a recent discussion on these boards, I want to give Werewolf a real try. Finally, even before 3E came out, I'd started working on a massive crossover game with a great (IMHO) story arc, but never got around to starting it before 3E came out.
Waxing in general, though. When I dropped 2E back circa 1993, I vowed never to go back to a class/level-based system -- even going so far as to get rid of all system-specific development on my (then) ten year old home-brew world.
Man, was that dumb. I absolutely love the simplicity of the d20 system. The new multiclass rules allow for a wide range of character concepts. Trading to a different system would only be a trade-off of shortcomings. About the only thing that still bugs me is the horrendous Vancian magic system, but that's a topic in itself.
Waning only because I miss some of the games I used to play (don't have time for more than one concurrent game). I've got an itch to play in the World of Darkness.
I've always liked Mage. I haven't tried Hunter and I've got at least one player who has owned the book since it was released and hasn't read a word of it because I told him I thought it'd be more fun to come in ignorant. Also, after a recent discussion on these boards, I want to give Werewolf a real try. Finally, even before 3E came out, I'd started working on a massive crossover game with a great (IMHO) story arc, but never got around to starting it before 3E came out.
Waxing in general, though. When I dropped 2E back circa 1993, I vowed never to go back to a class/level-based system -- even going so far as to get rid of all system-specific development on my (then) ten year old home-brew world.
Man, was that dumb. I absolutely love the simplicity of the d20 system. The new multiclass rules allow for a wide range of character concepts. Trading to a different system would only be a trade-off of shortcomings. About the only thing that still bugs me is the horrendous Vancian magic system, but that's a topic in itself.
Ulrick
First Post
Waning.
I don't think I'll be buying 3.5.
3e has just started to feel "different" for me. It feels like its all rules and less "adventure."
I just get tired of watching players flip through all the books to twik their characters just right. It's like the story has taken the wayside in wake of getting the perfect character via prestige classes, and feats.
Sometimes I feel like I'm playing Diablo.
Maybe I'm getting jaded. But the spells seem "blah," the "feats" are "blah," magic items seem "blah," and most of the prestige classes I've seen are definitely "blah."
When I create homebrew adventures, I get sick of creating NPCs. Stat blocks are ungodly now. I'm glad I got smart and started creating index cards for each NPC. I've even created "Generic" NPCs using the tables in the DMG cause it just cuts down on the time.
I think I need to take a break from D&D.
I don't think I'll be buying 3.5.
3e has just started to feel "different" for me. It feels like its all rules and less "adventure."
I just get tired of watching players flip through all the books to twik their characters just right. It's like the story has taken the wayside in wake of getting the perfect character via prestige classes, and feats.
Sometimes I feel like I'm playing Diablo.
Maybe I'm getting jaded. But the spells seem "blah," the "feats" are "blah," magic items seem "blah," and most of the prestige classes I've seen are definitely "blah."
When I create homebrew adventures, I get sick of creating NPCs. Stat blocks are ungodly now. I'm glad I got smart and started creating index cards for each NPC. I've even created "Generic" NPCs using the tables in the DMG cause it just cuts down on the time.
I think I need to take a break from D&D.
dpdx
Explorer
Waning before I found the In Character board. Now it's waxing. Our gaming group went its separate ways, and I'm a little nervous about putting a card on the bulletin board at the FLGS. And it's gonna be even harder to convene a decent group for any SW adventures I want to play in/run. So until such a group gets together, I'm anxiously awaiting the release of Coruscant and the Core Worlds so I can write adventures. As it says in the DMG, that's half the fun...
But my interest in DnD is definitely waxing, and for that, I have to give serious credit to the folks on the In Character board.
But my interest in DnD is definitely waxing, and for that, I have to give serious credit to the folks on the In Character board.
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