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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mkill" data-source="post: 5877530" data-attributes="member: 55985">D&D 3.5 is a fine game, but it requires deep system mastery on the side of the GM that matches your most tactical-minded player. As a DM who is still learning the ropes and finding his style, it's not the best system to run. What you describe can happen too easily.Ask yourself: Do I really care about tactical combats? Do I want to optimize encounters until I perfectly challenge all players? Or Do I want completely different things out of my games, such as a great evening with friends, exotic locations, great stories, great dialogue?Now, you can have that in D&D 3.5, but it requires to to heavily control the powerlevel of the players. This eats up time and effort that can be spent to improve the game in other ways.I usually don't recommend switching RPG systems, but here I find it a good solution. At least, this will take the system mastery advantage from your players, while you all learn the new RPG.</blockquote>