D&D 3.x Mike Selinker about the release of 3.0 D&D

[darjr]

Mike Selinker on the release of 3.0. Happy 25th birthday, D&D 3E
do you remember where you were? I was out of the hobby until near the end of 3.5.

 

[Alzrius]

I was in college, and adopted the system immediately, though I needed a good six months before I grew comfortable with it.

 

[Morrus]

do you remember where you were?

Depends... what time was it, exactly?

 

[James Gasik]

I was working at my local Taco Bell at the time. My friend RJ came in to show off the new book and all the cool stuff in it. So many things that had turned me away from 2e had been rectified! It was a whole new game!

Mind you, it took awhile to realize that some stuff didn't work right (Monks), and other things (non-damaging spells) were more busted than ever, and they screwed up the balance with one of their marquee changes (Feats)...but it became hard to keep playing in my friend's 2e game knowing that the play experience (not the roleplay, just the mechanical side of things) could be so much better if we switched systems.

 

[GM Lent]

I picked it up the day it came out, in a store whose name I don't recall in Bloomington, IN. Like many, I was enthralled at what I saw as "corrections" to 2e and my games adopted it immediately (with a handful of loud protests).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

do you remember where you were?

Here. I was here.

 

[Koloth]

That day, no. Doing good to remember lunch yesterday. But I still have a link to a gaming blog where we started a game on Sept 14, 2005 so it seems the group adopted it fairly quickly. May have taken that long before someone was confident enough to try running and for us to wrap up whatever game(Traveller, GURPS are likely suspects) we were in the middle of playing.

 

[Distracted DM]

We played the heck of out 3e, 3.5, and PF1e. I can probably recall which gaming store, at least, we were frequenting at the time...
I consider 3e the first edition of "modern" DnD. I think Matt Colville said that we're in a post-3e era, something like that- after all, 3e is what set the ability score modifiers we're all familiar with now.

I started with 2e, but 3.Xe is where I spent most of my DnD years.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

We played the heck of out 3e, 3.5, and PF1e. I can probably recall which gaming store, at least, we were frequenting at the time...
I consider 3e the first edition of "modern" DnD. I think Matt Colville said that we're in a post-3e era, something like that- after all, 3e is what set the ability score modifiers we're all familiar with now.

I think 3E reset the industry in a lot of ways.

 

[sevenbastard]

I remember the apartment I lived in and loading the CD to make charachters, but i can't remember where I bought the books at. Or even if they all came out at once. I know the Game Store i was using at the time but its also possible I got them at a regular book store.