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<blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 997417" data-attributes="member: 4779"><p>After reading about the revisions to the rules, reviews from other sites and after Monte and Sean's words I'm starting to get a houserule vibe from all this that I hadn't gotten until now. Maybe it's because of the respect I have for Monte or maybe he just made a few points I hadn't considered before...</p><p></p><p>For about .5 seconds there he made me think about <strong>not</strong> buying the new books. I have been completely on board since I started reading about the changes in 3.5. I still think many of the changes are good (especially to the classes) but there is stuff in there that I don't like at all.</p><p></p><p>I'm less happy now that I have learned about the original 3.5 plan. I would have liked to have seen a combination of the 2 (new artwork for example and <em>no</em> errata). Not that I mind the timing of this revision, but it would have been nice to see a few more tweaks to the current system (the most obvious being the caster level requirements for magic item creation which I understand but never liked). One of my major concerns is learning about this oversight to PrCs/XP penalties (I don't actually care about this oversight as I hardly ever allow published PrCs in my games). If they missed that then we could be in for more errata than I would care for.</p><p></p><p>I was in no way a 'master' of 3.0 but I was getting there. I actually haven't DM-ed much D&D in the last year so getting back into it with new rules isn't such a bad thing. I am still purchasing the books day one as there seems to be more good than bad. I agree with the majority of Monte's issues but many of them won't impact my game much if at all.</p><p></p><p>I just hope there isn't a ton of errata and that we don't see 4th edition for at least 4-5 years. That new D&D game should be playtested to death and should include freelancers like Monte, Sean and many of the professionals that frequent this very website.</p><p></p><p>John "Not as enthused about 3.5 as he was before writing this response but still buying it" Crichton</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Crichton, post: 997417, member: 4779"] After reading about the revisions to the rules, reviews from other sites and after Monte and Sean's words I'm starting to get a houserule vibe from all this that I hadn't gotten until now. Maybe it's because of the respect I have for Monte or maybe he just made a few points I hadn't considered before... For about .5 seconds there he made me think about [b]not[/b] buying the new books. I have been completely on board since I started reading about the changes in 3.5. I still think many of the changes are good (especially to the classes) but there is stuff in there that I don't like at all. I'm less happy now that I have learned about the original 3.5 plan. I would have liked to have seen a combination of the 2 (new artwork for example and [i]no[/i] errata). Not that I mind the timing of this revision, but it would have been nice to see a few more tweaks to the current system (the most obvious being the caster level requirements for magic item creation which I understand but never liked). One of my major concerns is learning about this oversight to PrCs/XP penalties (I don't actually care about this oversight as I hardly ever allow published PrCs in my games). If they missed that then we could be in for more errata than I would care for. I was in no way a 'master' of 3.0 but I was getting there. I actually haven't DM-ed much D&D in the last year so getting back into it with new rules isn't such a bad thing. I am still purchasing the books day one as there seems to be more good than bad. I agree with the majority of Monte's issues but many of them won't impact my game much if at all. I just hope there isn't a ton of errata and that we don't see 4th edition for at least 4-5 years. That new D&D game should be playtested to death and should include freelancers like Monte, Sean and many of the professionals that frequent this very website. John "Not as enthused about 3.5 as he was before writing this response but still buying it" Crichton [/QUOTE]
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