Melkor
Explorer
I bought 3.0 the day it came out. I played various campaigns and one shot games for a solid 2 years.
I never had any problems or ran into anything that I considered to be a major issue with the 3.0 rules. Granted, we never played much further than 6th to 8th level, and there were a couple of times when I thought that bull strength was pretty awesome, but nothing that ever made me say: 'This is broken'.
Now that 3.5 is out, I read about all of these things that were 'fixed' or 'balanced' and I'm thinking - 'hmmmm, didn't seem that bad before'. DRs, Monster CRs, Balanced Spells, Streamlined Skills, Streamlined (or easier to understand) Combat, Monsters as Player Characters (this one I did see some problems with in 3.0, but I figured Savage Species cleared those up).....
Anyway, I was perfectly content with 3.0....but 3.5 coming out is like me living in a cave and never knowing anything else existed outside of the cave....then taking me up on top of a tall mountain and showing my the countryside around the cave - and telling me I can't live there....It's back to the cave. Bad analogy (opening myself up to all kinds of questions about why I was in the cave, how bad my eyes were affected by the light when I was brought out of the cave, etc., etc., etc.), but you get what I am saying - I didn't know it was broke until I saw how it was fixed.
I have already bought the 3.5 books, but I hate looking at all of that 3.0 stuff on my shelf that is either invalidated or required some serious work to use with 3.5. Kind of depressing.
/Rant Off
I never had any problems or ran into anything that I considered to be a major issue with the 3.0 rules. Granted, we never played much further than 6th to 8th level, and there were a couple of times when I thought that bull strength was pretty awesome, but nothing that ever made me say: 'This is broken'.
Now that 3.5 is out, I read about all of these things that were 'fixed' or 'balanced' and I'm thinking - 'hmmmm, didn't seem that bad before'. DRs, Monster CRs, Balanced Spells, Streamlined Skills, Streamlined (or easier to understand) Combat, Monsters as Player Characters (this one I did see some problems with in 3.0, but I figured Savage Species cleared those up).....
Anyway, I was perfectly content with 3.0....but 3.5 coming out is like me living in a cave and never knowing anything else existed outside of the cave....then taking me up on top of a tall mountain and showing my the countryside around the cave - and telling me I can't live there....It's back to the cave. Bad analogy (opening myself up to all kinds of questions about why I was in the cave, how bad my eyes were affected by the light when I was brought out of the cave, etc., etc., etc.), but you get what I am saying - I didn't know it was broke until I saw how it was fixed.
I have already bought the 3.5 books, but I hate looking at all of that 3.0 stuff on my shelf that is either invalidated or required some serious work to use with 3.5. Kind of depressing.
/Rant Off