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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lord_banus" data-source="post: 1399876" data-attributes="member: 9869">Well I seemed to have asked an interesting question and have received a lot of valuable replies.  I'll just see if I can clarify the situation to answer some people's comments. His main complaints center around the idea that dnd 3e has become more like a computer game just for the young folk to play. A lot of the times he gets upset is when he goes to use a spell and finds that it is a lot less powerful than he remembers or that it is easily overcome. I guess this comes from wizards being scaled back to being more in line with the other classes.  I will also mention that this has been going on for over a year and for most of that time I have been adding new elements to the game like "Distinctions and Drawbacks" to appease him (my missus thinks I have the patience of a saint).  The final straw came when I got a hold of his skills and powers books ( I hadn't read them up to this point) and realised that just about everything was do-able easily within 3e and the remainder could be done with Unearthed Arcana. He also brought someone along to our game that has the same view as him about the issue.  Another issue that he raised was that he had a large collection of books that he is letting go to waste.  Personally I think he is just finding any excuse to hang on to his old viewpoint.He is a decent guy and to be fair he has tried to like 3e but he said that he couldn't do it anymore. I'm not sure if that means he is thinking of leaving the group or what but we are changing over to Oriental Adventures which will hopefully be enough of a change to break him out of it. It seems pretty clear from the comments raised here that his viewpoint that 2nd ed was better than 3rd ed is in the minority so at least I know I am not going mad.  <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=":)" /> I'll guess we'll see what happens on Sunday. Stay tuned for the next installment of DnD: Generations.</blockquote>

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