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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1162792" data-attributes="member: 3146">I have much more fun DMing 3.x than I ever had DMing previous versions of the game. I think that's because 3.x has incorporated a lot of the things that the previous versions of the game needed (and my friends and I had endless discussions about how to implement)--like a workable skill system and non-broken multiclassing mechanics for instance.This seems like a rather inaccurate complaint to me. Yes, if you change one aspect of the system (the availability and frequencey of magic items, for instance), it makes throws other aspects of the system (the CR system and the value of armor class--in particular heavy armor, shields, Dodge, and Combat Expertise--for instance) out of whack. But that's no different from 1e or 2e. A 2e 12th level 2e character with plate mail and a battle axe wasn't capable of taking on the same creatures as a character with +3 platemail, a +2 shield and a sword of life stealing. Similarly a wizard with a staff of power or a wand of fireballs was far more powerful than a wizard with his spellbook and a dagger.1 and 2e had no guides for how much equipment a character was supposed to have and much less precise guides for what an x-level character was supposed to be capable of. If you were a 1e or a 2e DM, you had to eyeball things. Kobolds are an appropriate threat to a level 1 party. Etc etc. If your particular campaign choices throw your 3e game out of whack, you're no worse off than you were in 1e or 2e because it's no harder to eyeball 3e capabilities than it was to eyeball 1e and 2e capabilities. Know your party, know your players, know your monsters and if you've got a non-standard setup, it shouldn't be any more work to set up encounters than it was in 1e or 2e.If you're having more difficulty eyeballing a nonstandard 3.x game, I would guess it's because you're more familiar with 1e and 2e than 3.x--not because of any inherent difference.That's entirely a player thing. When I was in high school and played D&D 2e with my friends, we were focussed on kits and specializations and wierd spells and maximizing things. When I got back into the game with 3e, I've played with groups that focus on the story and groups that focus on combat mechanics. (Of course mechanics can be a part of the story--is the character whose dream since conversion has been to join the Knights Templar focussing on mechanics or story when he shouts for joy upon reaching level 7 and becoming Ftr 4/Pal 2/Templar 1? If the game integrates mechanics and story properly, I would say that the two things are inseperable).</blockquote>

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