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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8694408"><p>One thing I did like about the d20 boom was the amount of stuff that was out there, but it was also a time where I remember quality radically varying (or at least being harder to judge by glancing through a book in the store than now). But I did like a lot of the d20 stuff. However I still found that 3E model enervating as a GM because you often wanted 3E specific or setting specific content or adventures to inspire and there just wasn't anything that inspired me the way something like the old Ravenloft had or even things like the old complete books or green books and blue books. I think for me, and again this was just my preference as there has been a long debate on the ideal balance, is the 3E stuff was way too focused on players, way to focused on crunch over flavor, and I just started feeling more like a workhorse than a GM. At first I quite liked it. And there were things about 3E, once you leaned into them, I enjoyed (I played 3E all through its run and beyond). But at a certain point, after some very disappointing modules and GM support, and just not feeling it, I started to go back to my older books from earlier editions, almost as a joke, and realized I was so much more inspired by them.</p></blockquote><p></p>