Were you a 3.x hater when it was announced and are glad you made the switch?

[Aeric]

Quite the opposite, in fact. I was excited about third edition and as time wore on, I learned to hate the plethora of rules and micromanagement.

I look forward to fourth edition the same way I looked forward to third, and to second.

 

[rossik]

i tried 3ed, dont like.


just keep my good old 2ed


i dont haaate 3ed, just its not my type


feel a little sorry for all he upset 3.x plp

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

3.0 is what got me back into gaming in general after a long hiatus, and back to D&D in particular. I'd abandoned 2nd Ed. as unwieldy and unrefined long since. 3.5 didn't bother me from a rules perspective (from a screw the customer perspective is another story), and at this point I'm not entirely certain all the time what things changed and what didn't.

I'll hold my opinions of 4.0 until I see it. Or I'll at least try to

 

[Ron]

Other: I originally like it a lot but, after a while, the excessive care for details and the great number of exceptions, such as the feats, ruined the game to me. I stopped playing it even before 3.5.

 

[SavageRobby]

I marked Other. I've never hated 3x. In fact, the big role out of 3rd edition got me back into gaming after an almost decade long hiatus, and I had skipped 2e altogether. It was pretty cool to see how far gaming had come, what with message boards, personal website, PDFs, etc.

It wasn't until after I had played 3x for a few years (and the great 3.5 money grab) that I started disliking 3x, eventually moving away to other games (Savage Worlds and now Castles & Crusades as well). I despise the intense rules bloat and design philosophy ("a rule for everything, and for everything a rule"), but it sure sells books to those who like that philosophy (and more power to you).

I don't have high hopes for 4e. I'll get the PHB and maybe a DMG to see what kind of neat things I can steal for my other games, but I seriously doubt I'll play it. I certainly won't run it, unless it blows my socks off, and given what I've read, smart money bets the socks staying firmly put.

 

[diaglo]

my hat of d02 knows no limits

 

[shilsen]

I loved 3.0 right from the time I started getting some detailed preview information, since it seemed astronomically better than 2e (which is what I first started playing D&D with) to me. 3.5 was an improvement, as far as I was concerned, and I quickly shifted to it as well.

 

[Presto2112]

I was actually away from the game for about five years until I picked up a copy of Dragon Magazine in a store one day, and lo and behold, there was an article previewing a NEW EDITION of D&D! Thank the Gods, I said!

Of course, now I've been playing 3.0 / 3.5 ever since. That didn't happen with 2nd edition for me, but it did with the current Edition.

 

[Davewolf]

I was actually away from the game for about five years until I picked up a copy of Dragon Magazine in a store one day, and lo and behold, there was an article previewing a NEW EDITION of D&D! Thank the Gods, I said!

Of course, now I've been playing 3.0 / 3.5 ever since. That didn't happen with 2nd edition for me, but it did with the current Edition.

Pretty much the same for me, didn't play for the span of 2nd Ed but loved 3rd when I saw the ads in Dragon.

 

[RFisher]

Obligatory other explanation: I bought 3e the moment it came out. Pre-ordered it. Agree to DM for the store where I pre-ordered it. I was blown away. It looked nigh exactly what I'd always wanted to do if I were to update D&D. But after a while, I grew frustrated with it. I still enjoy playing it, but I'm reluctant to DM 3e anymore.