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

[Emerikol]

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.

I went to Gen Con that year as I knew 3e was coming out. I'd been following it on Eric Noah's board which is part of this boards history. I went to a playtest session and ran into Monte Cook. For whatever reason at the time I had not paid attention to the authors so I didn't know him from Adam. I think for just a second he was surprised I didn't know who he was. He turned out to be an incredibly cool person for introducing a game. I'm been a Monte fan ever since though his cypher system is not to my tastes.

 

[Emerikol]

I ran a several long 1e campaigns and one that transitions to 2e. I was in college during that time so my game tailed off a bit. I played some after graduation. When 3e came along, I played another long campaign. For me a long campaign is at least three years but mine were much longer. I had high level characters in 2e using the Gygaxian advancement rate.