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Message: <blockquote data-quote="W4rlock" data-source="post: 5550716" data-attributes="member: 6676072">I play in a mixed group, with an average age around 30-35. The DM has been playing her own same setting since playing 1e in college, and holds back a lot of her own custom-built mechanics. (she recently tried to bring it into 4e without success, mostly due to inherent conflicts in playstyle and mechanics) Generally, most players I know attend for the storytelling and the social aspect, but it's not a very deep mechanics game. (It's non-gridded combat, generally of a 'here's party order, everybody gets one' type.)I'm currently building up a 3e/4e hybrid game, using 3e system mechanics, but adapting 4e aspects like the skill list, monster-roles, and encounter construction. I'm also doing an end-run around my perceptions of the downfalls of 3e, by breaking down the worst of it. (I've split Clerics and Druids into hybrid-fighter and cloth-armored-caster variants, and everybody's a spontaneous caster of a sort, warmage/beguiler/dread-necros encouraged.) I'm also throwing in some Unearthed Arcana variants I enjoy, like armor-as-DR and fixed-XP.I've considered just running a flat-out 4e game, but I decided the parts I love most about 3e aren't there in 4e (level-adjust monster races and templates), while the stuff I like in 4e is fairly easy to back-convert (monsters, class-powers as maneuvers, utilities as skill tricks, etc).All my players are also gamers from the established GM's game, though some have stopped due to life-busyness. Several of the other gamers also play in other games, which unfortunately I don't get to attend due to table-space limitations. To my knowledge they're 3e-generic. (this does make it hard on my game, as for them, they've got plenty of gaming options aside from the big-old-game, so they find it easier to skip out on my fresh-new game.) The couple players I've had reliably for the last few sessions have really enjoyed playing even this modified version of 3e, just because it's more customizable and strategic than the big-old-game.</blockquote>

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