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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6057028" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>Actually, while I'm on the subject...</p><p></p><p>I'm actually much the same, just on the other side of the screen. I want to be playing with an edition that's as close to 'perfect' as possible, so when I see that something is broken, my impulse is to try to fix it.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that 3e <em>can't</em> be fixed by any meaningful set of house rules. Once you drill right down to the roots of the issues, it becomes apparent that any genuine fix will effectively mean a complete rewrite of the system. And I don't have the time (or, honestly, the expertise) to do that.</p><p></p><p>So I'm in the position where I have to reluctantly live with the problems. Despite its flaws, 3e remains the "best fit" system for me.</p><p></p><p>That's part of why the highlighting of flaws by people like the CharOp group (and also Edition Warriors on the other side) is so problematic - it's not that I can deny that those flaws exist, it's that they do exist and there's nothing I can do about them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6057028, member: 22424"] Actually, while I'm on the subject... I'm actually much the same, just on the other side of the screen. I want to be playing with an edition that's as close to 'perfect' as possible, so when I see that something is broken, my impulse is to try to fix it. The problem is that 3e [i]can't[/i] be fixed by any meaningful set of house rules. Once you drill right down to the roots of the issues, it becomes apparent that any genuine fix will effectively mean a complete rewrite of the system. And I don't have the time (or, honestly, the expertise) to do that. So I'm in the position where I have to reluctantly live with the problems. Despite its flaws, 3e remains the "best fit" system for me. That's part of why the highlighting of flaws by people like the CharOp group (and also Edition Warriors on the other side) is so problematic - it's not that I can deny that those flaws exist, it's that they do exist and there's nothing I can do about them. [/QUOTE]
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