Is your love for 3E waning? Waxing? Staying steady?

[Eridanis]

While there are rules available for taking multiple prestige classes or taking certain feats...I don't always want to use them in my game.

This has kind of turned me off to 3E and brought me back to playing 1st edition.

That's too bad. You're entirely within your rights as a DM to control your own game, and it was the players that wouldn't accept that. Sounds like more of a problem with your players than with 3E, per se.

At any rate, hopefully you can have fun in whatever game system you choose to run.

And Henry, it sounds like a winner of a game - too funny!

 

[Sagan Darkside]

Waxing- I am still excited by the supplements I buy and am impressed with some of the stuff out there. The social combat rules in Quint Samurai alone have made me want to start dm'ng again.

Spycraft is awesome.

And I am even currently playing in an (ugh) d20 Modern game- and having some moderate level of .. fun.. I guess...

Well, other then that, I like d20 and d&d.

SD

 

[War Golem]

Waxing. Or holding steady at least. Definitely not waning.

I still love D&D, and am happy for the most part with d20/3e. Some parts could use tweaking, and hopefully that will happen with the revised rulebooks. The only major thing about 3e that comes to mind off the top of my head that I really don't like is the XP system and Challenge Ratings. I know that's not going anywhere, though, and I've managed to work around it well enough.

 

[megamania]

My interest is growing regularly. I don't get to play as much as I want so I have tried maybe a dozen classes/combos. Too many possibilities..........

 

[barsoomcore]

As a DM, wax wax wax wax... There's just more and more clever, fascinating, exciting materials coming out all the time:

Book of Eldritch Might III
Nyambe
Oathbound

This is the kind of stuff I LOVE. That makes me want to run games. I'm having huge amounts of fun with my campaign and I feel like I'm running the best games I ever have.

As a player -- well, I've never played 3E so... can't say.

 

[Ravellion]

Take a look at the Kingdoms of Kalamar Campaign system if you haven't already. Its very "low magic" in a lot of ways. Very Human oriented as well.

Oh, love the setting... it's just that the rules don't support the low magic attmosphere it has successfully invoked. As soon as you hit flying, teleporting, raising etc, no matter how low magic the atmosphere might be, it will be highly incongruous with what is actually going on.

I could heavily house rule any new campaign I start I guess. Like building all new classes, introducing Ken Hood's Grim and Gritty, etc. etc. And then still be playing D20... but it wouldn't really be D&D anymore... still, if I don't see another system worth my fancy, I might.

Or I might switch to D20 Modern but with cold hard cash instead of the wealth bonus... I wish they would have put that in as an option, or a web enhancement. With the currency exchange rates of Euro and Dollar being so close, it would work for, what 90% of the market?

Rav

 

[Teflon Billy]

...Sometimes I feel like I'm playing Diablo....

I hear you brother.

Waning here.

The game is a fine reworking of old the old D&D rules, but it lacks flexibility. You essentially *must* play a high magic game (with tons of magic items) if you intend to allow all of the classes/races.

The magic item ceation rules allow for huge power inflation, and power inflation on this scale seems a lot like Diablo to me. The characters become defined more by their equipment than anything else...I'm aware that you die-hard roleplayers sink a lot into your PC's personas, but on a nuts and bolts level, they are their equipment as the game approaches high levels.

The 3E games I've run have shown this enough times that I now can beleive they weren't anomalies.

I'm loving Mutants and Masterminds though, so I guess I'm not abandoning D20 all together.

 

[Zaruthustran]

It was steady, up until the news about the 3.5 revision. Now my love for 3E is waxing.

"What's this? WotC is responding to player feedback and is officially revising the rules? Cleaning out all the errata and FAQ and Sage rulings and simply putting out a cleaner, better ruleset? This is good news!"

-z

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I'm still loving 3e.

This may, of course, be something to do with the fact that I'm not getting as many chances to play it as I'd like...sigh.

 

[buzz]

Re: Wax on... wax off... wax on... wax off...

I've heard the new Buffy book (D6) isn't too bad...

FYI: The Buffy game uses Eden Studios' Unisystem, which is d10-based.