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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4942302" data-attributes="member: 22424">When it comes to what other people play and enjoy playing, I say &quot;not at all&quot;. People should play whatever they enjoy.When it comes to me and my group, system does matter, but it is not the only factor that matters, nor even the most important. I would rather play a system I don't like much with a good GM and players than play my perfect system (which actually doesn't exist) with a bad GM and players.However, the system does matter. Every so often, I have a notion to run a BD&amp;D, 2nd Edition AD&amp;D or (most likely) 1st Edition AD&amp;D campaign again, for reasons of nostalgia. This lasts right up until I look at the actual mechanics of the game - there are enough oddities there that I would just feel compelled to fix 'just one thing'... but as soon as I fix one thing, I'll want to fix another, and another, until I've just fixed 'one more thing' and re-written the whole game.And 4e is not for me. I'll not go into why, but it's just not. Thanks, but no thanks.(The reason 3.x is for me is largely down to my own mindset. I'm by nature extremely organised, and very good with numbers, structure and order. I don't do terribly well with lots of exceptions, special cases, and things being left undefined. And by this point I've pretty much cracked open the maths behind 3e - I like to think I understand it. 3e is just structured enough, and just complex enough, to be almost ideal for me. Now, if only it didn't take so long to actually prep a game...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 4942302, member: 22424"] When it comes to what other people play and enjoy playing, I say "not at all". People should play whatever they enjoy. When it comes to me and my group, system does matter, but it is not the only factor that matters, nor even the most important. I would rather play a system I don't like much with a good GM and players than play my perfect system (which actually doesn't exist) with a bad GM and players. However, the system does matter. Every so often, I have a notion to run a BD&D, 2nd Edition AD&D or (most likely) 1st Edition AD&D campaign again, for reasons of nostalgia. This lasts right up until I look at the actual mechanics of the game - there are enough oddities there that I would just feel compelled to fix 'just one thing'... but as soon as I fix one thing, I'll want to fix another, and another, until I've just fixed 'one more thing' and re-written the whole game. And 4e is not for me. I'll not go into why, but it's just not. Thanks, but no thanks. (The reason 3.x [i]is[/i] for me is largely down to my own mindset. I'm by nature extremely organised, and very good with numbers, structure and order. I don't do terribly well with lots of exceptions, special cases, and things being left undefined. And by this point I've pretty much cracked open the maths behind 3e - I like to think I understand it. 3e is just structured enough, and just complex enough, to be almost ideal for me. Now, if only it didn't take so long to actually prep a game...) [/QUOTE]

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