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<blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1782333" data-attributes="member: 11734">Not really, IMHO. When my group first started playing 3E, the biggest things to get used to were:- multiclassing- attributes giving bonuses starting at 12- damage resistance- hit dice all the way to level 20... the first one being the biggest, but it mirrored house rules we already had in play so it wasn't such a huge deal. Many other things were changed, of course, but they were obvious evolutions of older rules rather than huge shifts. I see d20 as a shift in marketing and licensing far more than a shift in rules - the real defining quality of 3E was how open WOTC was to third-party development. IMHO, that was far and away more important than any rules changes, and is easily the most important factor in D&amp;D's current popularity. From that point of view, IMHO the nuggets of d20 were open source software, fan supported systems that refuse to die long after the publisher went belly-up, collaborative fiction, and other shared-development concepts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DMScott, post: 1782333, member: 11734"] Not really, IMHO. When my group first started playing 3E, the biggest things to get used to were: - multiclassing - attributes giving bonuses starting at 12 - damage resistance - hit dice all the way to level 20 ... the first one being the biggest, but it mirrored house rules we already had in play so it wasn't such a huge deal. Many other things were changed, of course, but they were obvious evolutions of older rules rather than huge shifts. I see d20 as a shift in marketing and licensing far more than a shift in rules - the real defining quality of 3E was how open WOTC was to third-party development. IMHO, that was far and away more important than any rules changes, and is easily the most important factor in D&D's current popularity. From that point of view, IMHO the nuggets of d20 were open source software, fan supported systems that refuse to die long after the publisher went belly-up, collaborative fiction, and other shared-development concepts. [/QUOTE]

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