Celebrim
Legend
I love D&D 3.0e and I will never be done with it. 5e felt shallow by comparison and while I respected a lot of its design chops, I felt that in the long run things like bounded accuracy and the proficiency system would feel too limiting, so I never tried to switch over to it.
PF1e and 3.5e are of course close and mostly compatible, but both have huge balance issues that are harder to fix than starting with 3.0e and figuring out what breaks in core. You can of course borrow from PF1 and 3.5e as needed as both have some good ideas, but both suffer from massive bloat as well and I believe that a good rules set should be much tighter than either one.
I've never seen any system address what I need from a fantasy RPG quite like D&D 3e though I suppose I could run something like BitD I'm struggling to think of a scenario where I would. Most things that are fantasy but not suitable to D&D I'd probably want to run in something like D20 modern tweaked to the particulars of the setting.
One particular problem I have is that some systems I think would require me to 'tutor' as a player in campaign orchestrated by an expert in that system before I really understood how to make them work, and I just don't foresee that as a realistic possibility. For one thing, good GMs are pretty rare I think and there is just no chance I'm going to get into a game in a system I'd want to learn (Pendragon, BitD, DitV, etc.).
PF1e and 3.5e are of course close and mostly compatible, but both have huge balance issues that are harder to fix than starting with 3.0e and figuring out what breaks in core. You can of course borrow from PF1 and 3.5e as needed as both have some good ideas, but both suffer from massive bloat as well and I believe that a good rules set should be much tighter than either one.
I've never seen any system address what I need from a fantasy RPG quite like D&D 3e though I suppose I could run something like BitD I'm struggling to think of a scenario where I would. Most things that are fantasy but not suitable to D&D I'd probably want to run in something like D20 modern tweaked to the particulars of the setting.
One particular problem I have is that some systems I think would require me to 'tutor' as a player in campaign orchestrated by an expert in that system before I really understood how to make them work, and I just don't foresee that as a realistic possibility. For one thing, good GMs are pretty rare I think and there is just no chance I'm going to get into a game in a system I'd want to learn (Pendragon, BitD, DitV, etc.).
