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

[MerricB]

Well, with the 3.5E revision on the horizon, it's time for my poor, paranoid, delusional mind to start worrying again. Perhaps it's all that time on Dragonsfoot and listening to EGG through other channels.

Are you still as passionate about 3E as you were when you first heard that it would be released? More? Less? Resigned to the fact that no RPG can ever live up to your expectations?

For myself, my Friday 3E campaign has developed into one of those amazing campaigns that will probably be one of my most treasured memories. I'm having an incredible amount of fun running it. I can wing things if I need to, I can adapt from old 1E or Basic D&D modules. There is a healthy amount of role-playing and story-telling occuring, and the fight scenes are getting more involved and heroic.

I look forward to the 3.5E revisions with the expectation that many of those things that are still a bit raw in the rules will be fixed, that the game will get better, and easier for the non-game-junkie to pick it up.

I was very excited when I first saw 3E. I seem to be as excited now as I was then, if not moreso. Hearing the nay-sayers saying that it is dying depresses me. (It hasn't been a great last month or so for me, either, as some of you will remember).

Though I know this is primarily a 3E board, I do know non-3E people visit it at well, and some 3E stalwarts may be feeling that the game isn't as strong as it used to be as well.

A variety of opinion, then? Let's see.

Do you have any thoughts on whether 3E has lived up to your expectations? How passionate are you still about the game?

Cheers!

 

[Crothian]

I'm actually more exicited about it now then I was then. Not because of the 3.5 stuff, I could care less about that. It's becasue I've meet and talked to many of the writers and the people who make D&D and all the d20 stuff great. I've gotten new insights and new ideas on everything. Plus all the great books I have yet to take advantage of.

 

[Jeph]

My love of d20 is certainly waning, and my love for Feng Shui and homebrew games is most definitely waxing. But that doesn't mean I'm giving the game up. Hell no!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Waxing. 3E grows on me like a fungus. I like the cleaner rules set, the consistency, the balance, and the flexibility (though I miss the one-line stat block simplicity of the days of yore).

Ironically, the generic d20 stuff (that which is not medieval fantasy) has no attraction.

 

[Dinkeldog]

The campaign that we just closed out (Wulf Ratbane's story hour) was the most memorable I've DM'd in years (since our FR-Spelljammer-Ravenloft games in college). The games I get to play in (Wulf's Lazy Days until we figure something else, Halma's Kalamar campaign) are great fun. I wish I could play more, as there are more races/classes I want to explore. So I guess I'm waxing. If I could find another game I'd join it. The only real non-d20 systems that interest me that much are Exalted and Earthdawn.

Will I move forward to 3.5e? Most likely, as I think most of the changes will be more like interpretations and alterations of effects on things like haste and harm that we've already decided on or thought about changing anyway.

 

[Henry]

Waxing, baby, waxing.

So far, we've picked up only TWO non-d20 games in the past three years, and that was only at my suggestion: Aetherco's Continuum (which is one heck of a thinking gamers' game, I HIGHLY recommend it!) and Alternity. Other than this, we've played D&D, Star Wars, and d20 Modern, as well as one of our fellow DM's variants of d20 Star Trek, and d20 Hanna-Barbera (don't ask.)

...And that's it. My fellow gamers won't TOUCH another roleplaying system.

 

[Jeph]

d20 Hanna-Barbera (don't ask.)

Rule #1: If you don't want someone to ask, don't say, "don't ask."

So, please explain.

 

[Sulimo]

Probably waning a little...but then I was never a full-on D&D/3e die-hard. Although I am a little suprised given I only got involved in my first regular 3e games this past October. Not that I'm not enjoying myslf alot...

Maybe it's also due to hanging out on rpg.net a fair bit lately and hearing about all the cool non-d20 gaming happening.

Or picking up the brilliance that is the Buffy RPG....to the point where using it for other genres occupies my mind more than using d20 for similar purposes.

 

[Victim]

My interest is declining, but just a bit. I still really like the mechanics of the game. However, I'm not a fan of all the rules additions and errata in the FAQ and supplements. While I still have lots of good character ideas that I'd like to play, or play again because they were so cool the first time.

It's not that don't like 3e anymore, but I'd like to try out other things too. I still haven't found a game of HERO, and I got the book last year. Also, I've had some more experience with other PRG systems and settings, and I'd like to play more of those too.

 

[Son_of_Thunder]

Waxing Baby!!!

My excitement for the game just grows. For me, 3E is so much better than Original, 1st and 2nd edition. With the right players this game will alway rule.

Son of Thunder