Li Shenron
Legend
I have some friends that really hate D&D 3ed.
Some of them are AD&D veterans (and extremely good players!), they hate 3rd edition simply because they know so well 2nd edition that it would be a great waste if they moved to 3rd, they would have to begin again from zero. In fact, they haven't played 3rd ed. yet at all, not even tried. It's like an old scientist who has been developing all life one theory which used to be innovative and later replaced or challenged by another one, which he deeply despises (wasn't it Einstein who always refused to accept Quantum Physics - and it was totally non-contrasting with Relativity!). I don't blame them anyway: I think I'll as well hate 4th ed. when it comes out and I've spent a lot of $$$ on 3rd books to have them all
The other kind of friends that hate D&D are PC games powerplayers. They simply hate all RPG because they can't get "powerful enough", they hate to have limited spells/day, they hate that a character can't have all high stats & all special abilities, they hate they can't "crack" the game, they hate you can't stack anything, they hate to be limited to 20 levels, and they hate that the characters are balanced. They like games like diablo 2 because they believe you just need to find out which character is best, choose it (hack the game...) and just destroy everything on the map night after night after night, because you're the strongest and nothing is a match.
A lot of other people I know used to hate the idea of RPG, but usually change their mind completely after they find out that they really didn't know what a RPG is or can be.
Anyway, your friend seems instead someone who does like RPG and plays several kinds, why he hates so much D&D (and not just simply dislike it) is really obscure to me.
Some of them are AD&D veterans (and extremely good players!), they hate 3rd edition simply because they know so well 2nd edition that it would be a great waste if they moved to 3rd, they would have to begin again from zero. In fact, they haven't played 3rd ed. yet at all, not even tried. It's like an old scientist who has been developing all life one theory which used to be innovative and later replaced or challenged by another one, which he deeply despises (wasn't it Einstein who always refused to accept Quantum Physics - and it was totally non-contrasting with Relativity!). I don't blame them anyway: I think I'll as well hate 4th ed. when it comes out and I've spent a lot of $$$ on 3rd books to have them all
The other kind of friends that hate D&D are PC games powerplayers. They simply hate all RPG because they can't get "powerful enough", they hate to have limited spells/day, they hate that a character can't have all high stats & all special abilities, they hate they can't "crack" the game, they hate you can't stack anything, they hate to be limited to 20 levels, and they hate that the characters are balanced. They like games like diablo 2 because they believe you just need to find out which character is best, choose it (hack the game...) and just destroy everything on the map night after night after night, because you're the strongest and nothing is a match.
A lot of other people I know used to hate the idea of RPG, but usually change their mind completely after they find out that they really didn't know what a RPG is or can be.
Anyway, your friend seems instead someone who does like RPG and plays several kinds, why he hates so much D&D (and not just simply dislike it) is really obscure to me.
