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Message: <blockquote data-quote="derbacher" data-source="post: 1952801" data-attributes="member: 23639">Well, I've finally gotten through the twenty pages of posts, so sign me up. A quick background:I've been playing since the White Box  D&D rules (that means I'm old...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )I still own just about every first edition AD&D book printed. Loved the detail, but figureing out all the permutations of rules was a bear, since, lets face it, these books were just not very well structered to allow ease of use! But I loved the game, and then second edition came out...And I refused to spend the money on it (I was a starving college student at the time). "Who needs a new version? Everything is the same, just re-packaged, right?  Right?"Advance quite a few years, hadn't played in about 5 years, and discovered 3.0. My children are of an age where this could be a wonderful new experience, so I go buy 10 3.0 books (core books, splat books, various Planes and Psionics books). I find the wealth of info on the web, and find that 3.0 is going to become 3.5 in just three months! (Who needs a new version? Everything is the same, just re-packaged, right?  Right?") But this time, thanks to good advice and reading some great posts on the web, I take the plunge and buy the 3.5 core books...And I love them! Better balance, problems fixed, just great. I currently run two games, a Greyhawk world with my two kids and two of their friends, and an Eberron campaign with three of the "old schoolers" like myself who like the whole "film noire" feeling of the new setting.I've rambled long enough for one Sunday morning.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Long live the DMF!</blockquote>

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