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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 9729956" data-attributes="member: 22424">It was an exciting time. I'd been away from D&amp;D for a long time, mostly playing VtM at the time, but the excitement around the WotC buyout and the new edition drew me back in. I'd been eagerly following the various developments in Dragon magazine (having started buying it again), on usenet, and on Eric Noah's site.So on the first day it was available I went to my FLGS (now closed, alas) and picked up the two copies of the PHB, plus whatever else they had available - &quot;Death in Freeport&quot;, &quot;Three Days to Kill&quot;, the &quot;Creature Collection&quot; (and maybe &quot;Sunless Citadel&quot; - I forget whether that came out at the same time). I then proceeded to devour them all, those being the days I had the time and patience to do that.And I was blown away - 3e was a revelation. It was followed by a DMG that was likewise a massive step up from the near-useless 2nd Ed version, and a MM that in fairness didn't match the Monstrous Compendium, and it was great. And then they almost immediately saw a huge drop in quality with &quot;Sword and Fist&quot; and the rest of the splatbooks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 9729956, member: 22424"] It was an exciting time. I'd been away from D&D for a long time, mostly playing VtM at the time, but the excitement around the WotC buyout and the new edition drew me back in. I'd been eagerly following the various developments in Dragon magazine (having started buying it again), on usenet, and on Eric Noah's site. So on the first day it was available I went to my FLGS (now closed, alas) and picked up the two copies of the PHB, plus whatever else they had available - "Death in Freeport", "Three Days to Kill", the "Creature Collection" (and maybe "Sunless Citadel" - I forget whether that came out at the same time). I then proceeded to devour them all, those being the days I had the time and patience to do that. And I was blown away - 3e was a revelation. It was followed by a DMG that was likewise a massive step up from the near-useless 2nd Ed version, and a MM that in fairness didn't match the Monstrous Compendium, and it was great. And then they almost immediately saw a huge drop in quality with "Sword and Fist" and the rest of the splatbooks. [/QUOTE]

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