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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZombieMaster" data-source="post: 4780588" data-attributes="member: 83558">Oh, I'm still here. I've found all the advice to be quite interesting. Big thanks to everyone. I want to try both at some point, thats for sure. Also I plan to compare them to the alternative options listed here as soon as I get a chance. I'm on my second read through of 3.5 PHB, making sure I understand everything 100%. I will say it hasn't seen overly complicated so far. Dense perhaps, a surely their are many options. But I honestly find all the information interesting; not something thats taken anything away from it. I've skimmed through the 4.0 book as well, and plan on reading it more in depth hopefully soon down the line. As for the people who mentioned knowing people to play: I know a guy through MtG that DMs some 3.5, but that's not as much as an issue cause I already have a couple good friends who want to play regardless of the edition and I'm looking to game with them for the moment (that and I'm the kind of guy that thinks, even without prior experiance, that I'd make a great DM. Here's to hoping I eventually prove myself right.)  Yeah, regardless of the edition I run I'm gonna try to make a tutorial campaign that's only real objective is to get them from place and learn the mechanics (and also press myself on my DMing). I'm certainly not opposed to preperation time. Also, I hate to say it, because I know the advice is well intended (and I thank you for it), but when someone tells me I might want to start with something simpler, I tend to one try the more complex one anyway. Brash and over confident: likely. But hard to change (it did get me through college). A final reason for my 3.5 lean might sound strange or be way off base (and might be very wrong, and someone will probably tell me I am). But I've played a lot of video games, and when I looked through the 4e PHB it had a certain video game feel for it (and looked like a lot of fun). But I was looking to play something completely different, and in 3.5 and it's encyclopedia of 'simulation like' rules and plethora of choices (if you can get the books), it looks closer to being the game I'm in the mood to play. Although 4.0 surely seems like an ever deepening change of pace somewhere down the line (as the options within it will probably grow even more over time). And again, so far you guys have been above and beyond helpful. Thanks a lot.</blockquote>

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