So how many of you made the switch?

[Ridley's Cohort]

We swapped over wholesale pretty quickly.

The number improvements clearly outweighed the questionable changes in our minds.

The core classes are more balanced against each other. There is a lot less class frontloading.

The difference in quality of the splatbooks was huge, and that alone warranted a switch. Our DM only liked ~50% of the splatbook material in 3.0 but ~95% in 3.5. In terms of bringing in new material that changed things from "uh, maybe, I will think about it when I have time" to "sure, probably, let me do a quick review first".

 

[Aus_Snow]

Should have been an option for.."No, I'm still using 1st and or 2nd ed.
I got some of the 3.0 books and 3.5 but haven't taken to either version.

There is an "other" option. So it's basically covered, I guess.

But (for the sake of argument) , why have a '1e/2e' option when the question is for those who have decided between 3.0 and 3.5? That makes no sense. If the poll had been between 1e and 2e, should 3.x have been a distinct option?


Anyway, I prefer GMing a kind of 3.3-ish mutant hybrid thing. But I'll play just about anything.

 

[jcfiala]

The ongoing game that I've been playing in since before 3.0 came out, more or less, stayed in 3.0 - although the DM allowed me to take Practiced Spellcaster and to use the Enlightened fist prestigue class because my character badly needed it.

Any new games I've played have been 3.5, including the other game I've joined, and a second game I just started.

I like playing either, but I like some of the options that have been released for 3.5 better, such as warlocks, other new base classes, the Tome of Battle, etc...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I chose the 3rd option.

I'm playing in a couple of campaigns right now. One is 3.0, one is 3.5. I see almost no signs of the 3.0 group changing over.

Personally, though, I made the switch.

 

[Xyanthon]

I have all the core books for 3.0 and 3.5 (as well as 2e, BECMI, RC, OD&D, 1e) but I prefer 1e or OD&D. That is not to say I wouldn't play in any edition, but I still prefer the old stuff.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I played in one long-running game before the revision, as well as a d20 Wheel of Time campaign (the rules of which were based on unrevised Third Edition), but all of my gaming since has been using the revised rules.

 

[DungeonMaster]

Didn't switch

I had high hopes for 3.5 when it came out. I sat down and read through the rules in detail with great anticipation - only to come out completely baffled. I couldn't beleive someone could possibly screw the game up more than what "they" did. Historically I had no problem to switch from 1E to 2E to 3E, each time I thought the overall game had improved. Not with 3.5. It's by and large a bunch of terrible house rules that a few idiots put together for 3E.

 

[WayneLigon]

I didn't switch to 3.5 for a long time. We were involved in a long AU game at the time, so nobody really bothered switching. I bought the books because I got them cheap at an upped discount from Amazon, and I had vague ideas of writing for it. As it stands, I have yet to GM 3.5, but I've played in two campaigns of it. By the time I feel like running 3.5, 4.0 will probably be out. I have, in general, mixed feelings about it. It was too much , too soon, and 'fixed' things that didn't need fixing.

 

[Imruphel]

We made the switch immediately. I had just started a new campaign two or so weeks before the books came out and just used some conversion notes I found on the 'net to keep things running for a couple of weeks.

I liked most of the 3.5E changes, even the changes to the rules for weapon sizes, so it was not an imposition. The only thing we have kept from 3.0, IIRC, is that darkness is, well, um, darkness.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Special Edition DMG?

My group made the switch TWO years after the introduction of 3.5e.

Not a complete switch, mind you, since we're waiting on WotC to release the standard formatted (as in "not leatherbound") Special Edition Printing of the [smallcaps]Dungeon Master's[/smallcaps] Guide v.3.5.

What's the difference between that edition and the 3.5 DMG available everywhere?

Oh, and we switched to 3.5 from 3.0.