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Message: <blockquote data-quote="devincutler" data-source="post: 6793758" data-attributes="member: 6684551">Agreed. I am running both 5th edition and a legacy 3.5 campaign that is high level and finishing up. The 3.5 party of PCs is 5 spellcasters with some cohorts (all but one of which are spellcasters). The psion can easily have an AC in the mid 60s (at 17th level) and the multiclassed paladin has saves in the almost +40 range at 17th level. The other PCs have ACs in the high 30s or low 40s and saves in the high +20s or los +30s.There is literally nothing I can take right out of the books and throw at them outside of epic monsters way over their EL. This means I have to customize every single creature and encounter, and in 3.5 even as good as I am stating monsters and bosses, it takes friggin' forever. Hours and hours to design a single battle (which, fortunately due to the massive layers of spell buffs and complexity of playing high level spellcasters in 3.5 means those combats take forever to run too....a half hour per round of combat is fast for them).OTOH, with BA in 5e I can pluck monsters out of the books straight away and design interesting combats and, MORE IMPORTANTLY, design scenarios and storylines that involve more than massive fights that take multiple sessions to finish.In short, once I finish with this current 3.5 campaign I will NEVER look back. 5e is a godsend to me. Having been DMing D&D for 41 years now, I can say that, so far, 5th edition is the best, easiest, and most pleasing version to run.</blockquote>

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