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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 3721063" data-attributes="member: 8447">When 3e came out, I had recently moved to a new town.&nbsp; I had not played D&amp;D in many years, though I had been a continual gamer.&nbsp; Essentially somewhere around the time 1st edition AD&amp;D came out, I left D&amp;D behind me.&nbsp; And I had no real intention of picking up 3e, but a buddy of mine, who had a friend who worked at WotC, picked me up the core books as a Christmas gift.&nbsp; In the new town I found a pretty good group of gamers, but they broke up in less than a year.&nbsp;&nbsp; When they broke up, I put out my shingle as GM for a wide variety of games ... and got no nibbles whatsoever.&nbsp; So I posted on one internet site that I'd be willing to run D&amp;D 3e heavily modified and with a strong tongue-in-cheek riff and I literally had a twenty person waiting list within a week.&nbsp; For the next couple of years I ran D&amp;D 3e with various modifications, trying to bash it into a form that I liked.&nbsp; It wasn't a bad game, but it wasn't the game that I naturally loved.&nbsp; So I played around with wound points/vitality, spell points, no alignment, AU (yeah!&nbsp; Go, Monte!), and other bits and pieces.&nbsp; I liked my settings, but I was never entirely fond with the rules themselves.Then I finally convinced my group to take the plunge and try something other than D&amp;D.When we heard that 4e was annouced, our collective opinion was, &quot;Yeah? So?&quot;&nbsp; Yes, by dint of effort and perseverence I had convinced the group that there are games other than D&amp;D and that a change in editions of that game will have little to no impact on us.So ... I was brought back to D&amp;D by necessity, had some fun as long as I tinkered with it mightily, and now have Left The Fold again.&nbsp; Seems good.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 3721063, member: 8447"] When 3e came out, I had recently moved to a new town. I had not played D&D in many years, though I had been a continual gamer. Essentially somewhere around the time 1st edition AD&D came out, I left D&D behind me. And I had no real intention of picking up 3e, but a buddy of mine, who had a friend who worked at WotC, picked me up the core books as a Christmas gift. In the new town I found a pretty good group of gamers, but they broke up in less than a year. When they broke up, I put out my shingle as GM for a wide variety of games ... and got no nibbles whatsoever. So I posted on one internet site that I'd be willing to run D&D 3e [I]heavily modified and with a strong tongue-in-cheek riff[/I] and I literally had a twenty person waiting list within a week. For the next couple of years I ran D&D 3e with various modifications, trying to bash it into a form that I liked. It wasn't a bad game, but it wasn't the game that I naturally loved. So I played around with wound points/vitality, spell points, no alignment, AU (yeah! Go, Monte!), and other bits and pieces. I liked my settings, but I was never entirely fond with the rules themselves. Then I finally convinced my group to take the plunge and try something [I]other[/I] than D&D. When we heard that 4e was annouced, our collective opinion was, "Yeah? So?" Yes, by dint of effort and perseverence I had convinced the group that there are games other than D&D and that a change in editions of that game will have little to no impact on us. So ... I was brought back to D&D by necessity, had some fun as long as I tinkered with it mightily, and now have Left The Fold again. Seems good. :) [/QUOTE]

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