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<blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 3036483" data-attributes="member: 518"><p>Howdy. Used to post here a few years back quite alot. Life got me away from playing RPGs. and currently I'm selling of my big RPG collection (dating back to the brown books, which I've actually sold already). Finances. Lack of time to play. etc.</p><p></p><p>Anyhoo, my 6 year old son has quite the imagination, and I do believe at some point I'd like to introduce him to D&D and that he would be insterested as well. So I want to keep a few books out of my big collection to have around "just in case". I have both the 3E Core books (as well as dozens of other 3.0 products), and also the 3.5E books, though I quit playing RPGS around the time 3.5 surfaced. I've never really given 3.5 a scrutinizing look/played it, and it's been a few years since I even cracked the covers of any of them. I would most likely grab the basic game to start my boy off when the time comes, but were it to "take off", I'd like to have the "full" ruleset around.</p><p></p><p>To the point Jeff...to the questions:</p><p></p><p>Not worrying about backwards compatibility or future compatibility with published products...</p><p></p><p>What are the major differences between the two (sub)systems?...which one do you prefer? Do you feel 3.5 added complexity? Or made things "simpler" by fixing issues from 3.0 with more rules? (which IME, adds to complexity, but I digress)</p><p></p><p>I know this is a somewhat odd situation...perhaps my reasoning is not clear...but suffice to say, I'm not likely to be keeping up with the game/joneses, don't care to, and really only need to have one set of books around and possibly a few modules for a very "basic" game. I can create adventures, etc if/when needed. </p><p></p><p>thanks in advance <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JeffB, post: 3036483, member: 518"] Howdy. Used to post here a few years back quite alot. Life got me away from playing RPGs. and currently I'm selling of my big RPG collection (dating back to the brown books, which I've actually sold already). Finances. Lack of time to play. etc. Anyhoo, my 6 year old son has quite the imagination, and I do believe at some point I'd like to introduce him to D&D and that he would be insterested as well. So I want to keep a few books out of my big collection to have around "just in case". I have both the 3E Core books (as well as dozens of other 3.0 products), and also the 3.5E books, though I quit playing RPGS around the time 3.5 surfaced. I've never really given 3.5 a scrutinizing look/played it, and it's been a few years since I even cracked the covers of any of them. I would most likely grab the basic game to start my boy off when the time comes, but were it to "take off", I'd like to have the "full" ruleset around. To the point Jeff...to the questions: Not worrying about backwards compatibility or future compatibility with published products... What are the major differences between the two (sub)systems?...which one do you prefer? Do you feel 3.5 added complexity? Or made things "simpler" by fixing issues from 3.0 with more rules? (which IME, adds to complexity, but I digress) I know this is a somewhat odd situation...perhaps my reasoning is not clear...but suffice to say, I'm not likely to be keeping up with the game/joneses, don't care to, and really only need to have one set of books around and possibly a few modules for a very "basic" game. I can create adventures, etc if/when needed. thanks in advance :) [/QUOTE]
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