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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VHawkwinter" data-source="post: 9877831" data-attributes="member: 7040136"><h2>This One's for Other 3.x GMs.</h2>Thread Context:So, over in the 3.5 splatbook powercreep thread, some complaints / gripes with 3.x I've seen before came up. Some in response to my comments, some not. They came up by the same person, but that part's not important. They're not uncommon gripes about the system, and they're issues which I like 3.x in spite of, rather than not recognising them as a problem at all.Anyway, relevant quotes:[HR][/HR][HR][/HR]But it made me think: These are problems I'm sure many of us have worked out solutions to, not just me.So with that context out of the way - here are the thread challenges, for fun. Specify which challenge your post is about just so everyone is aware. Challenge 1 is definitely a larger undertaking than Challenge 2.<h3>1. Your Best Wild 3.x Collage <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🧙‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f9d9-2642.png" title="Man mage    :man_mage:" data-shortname=":man_mage:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></h3>Across all 3.x games that you've played, with whatever content you're familiar with, What is your best "All the Good Stuff, none of the bad stuff" version of 3.x. You can include essential houserules as well, but it should be a "Recipe" someone else could follow to get your best 3.x. Don't include things other people cannot access, that would miss the point. No price limits. Everything that exists is fair game.The idea here is much like designing a Magic the Gathering draft cube. One person might build a game around Ravnica Block, while maybe another wants Gameplay primarily centred on Tempest block, and another wants gameplay centred on some newer meta and mechanics, many years after I stopped playing. What would YOUR idealised 3.5 look like?What is included. Just as Importantly: What is excluded? Why? And what manner of gameplay do you want from it? How should your curated experience differ from common all-in approaches?<h3>2. For a New GM <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🧝" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f9dd.png" title="Elf    :elf:" data-shortname=":elf:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></h3>This is a slimmed "Best" Core Rules fix. You could base it off your 3.x Collage, or not. Keep the good, toss the bad, houserule fix problem spots, but try to keep it easy enough that someone who has never played 3.x before (but has played other TTRPGs) could understand. The goal here is to try to keep the price tag under ~$50USD tops if PDF purchases are required (you can of course pull from free SRDs to lower the cost rather than requiring PDFs, where possible), building a compact "deck" of your preferred "3.x core rules" which could be made into one book if a madman got the appropriate sources, printed out the segments you choose, and stapled them together (or copy pasted those segments into a big Joplin markdown document or Word Document or something). But this is the budget, simplified, and fat-trimmed version for a new GM.As above: What is included. What is excluded? Why? And what manner of gameplay do you want from it? How does that gameplay differ from a stock published PHB?I imagine there will be at least a few different idealised varieties of what "the game" looks like that would come out of this, and I'm curious to see what they are.So, what would you assemble as your 3.x?<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🐉" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f409.png" title="Dragon    :dragon:" data-shortname=":dragon:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🐉" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f409.png" title="Dragon    :dragon:" data-shortname=":dragon:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🐉" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f409.png" title="Dragon    :dragon:" data-shortname=":dragon:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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