Love it or hate it, 3e style

[diaglo]

Thanks for the info.

look for user "A silent wail"

 

[TerraDave]

Oh, you know how these things go.

First it was love, then just like.

Then just mixed.

It is the logical extension/reformulation of D&D as written and played pre 2000. But I guess logic only gets you so far.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

4E gamers rock and can also appreciate other systems, especially those that lead the way to their favorite game?

Or it's because this site specifically sprang up with the 3rd edition, and most people on here have played it for some length of time. And it's a little ridiculous to say you "hate" a game you used to regularly play.

I love 3E, for whati t's worth. If you can really love a game system, at least. It's my favorite rules edition and the OGL rocks, too.

 

[Storminator]

I gave it Mixed Bag. I used to love it. I would consider playing it again, but I think I'd have to quit my job to have enough free time to justify that (I'd add 2 more 4e games, another M&M session, and a once a month random system game first).

I would never run it again, and I doubt I could ever play a high level game again. Even the 5th PBeM I run in 3.5 makes my head hurt to think about.

It's a huge step up from 1e (I have no experience w/2e) in terms of coherence and functionality, but it'll never be my system of choice again.

PS

 

[Bullgrit]

I love it. But then, I tend to play/run core rules only.

I can understand someone disliking the game (any game), but some of the complaints for disliking D&D3 leave me perplexed. Sometimes it's like:

"I don't like ice cream because the crunchy bits hurt like chewing glass."

This is what some complaints about playing D&D3 with some of the supplements sounds like.

Bullgrit

 

[Treebore]

Here is a large part of why I don't like 3E any longer, and 4E for that matter.

You start out at level one with 1,000 pounds of stuff (HP, skills, feats/powers, etc...)

By level 5 you have 3,000 pounds of stuff, by level 10 you have 12,000 pounds of stuff, by level 20 you have 50,000 pounds of stuff.

As a player, that is almost manageable, especially if you use Excel sheets or other electronic "aids".

As a DM you are dealing, by 20th level, not only 50,000 pounds of stuff times your number of players, but your also dealing with 50,000 pounds of stuff times your NPC's and any monsters you "advance". So as the DM you get seriously over loaded.

So now I play RPG's where we start with 10 to 50 pounds of stuff, so I am only dealing with 15,000 pounds of stuff per PC, NPC, and monster by 20th level.

 

[avin]

Like it as I like 4E.

There's no perfect D&D edition so far.

 

[jaerdaph]

I really don't like to use extremes like "love" and "hate" with regards to something as trivial in the grand scheme of things as a game, but in this case I chose "love it" because of the OGL, which gave us so many *other* great games besides 3x D&D like d20 Modern, True20, Microlite20, Pathfinder, Mutants & Masterminds, Spycraft, Grim Tales, d20 Call of Cthulhu, Monte's Malhavoc stuff, OSRIC and a host more of really cool 3PP products.

 

[DaveMage]

Love it.

The only thing I don't love is the time it takes to prepare for and the time combat can take. But that's not enough to lose that lovin' feeling....

 

[Rolflyn]

I love it. But then, I tend to play/run core rules only.

I check "love it" but really because I love it the way we play it, core rules with a few house rules. I could have chosen dislike it for the everything goes games, or mixed bag because both exist. But that doesn't seem fair. Core only 3e or 3.5e rocks.