What D&D has Been to Me (or You)

[Mercurius]

The fact that you read a fiend's book has left me stunned and unable to reply.

 

[Li Shenron]

The big flaw was that D&D 3e was not Powergamer-safe. It would work wonderfully if the PC's weren't trying to abuse/break the system and were having a fun, relaxed time. The potential abuses in the rules (usually involving multiclass combos or being very literal with the wording of spells or feats) were huge, and I saw some people make the rules beg for mercy they bent and twisted them so hard.

Even if 3.0 is my favourite edition so far, I agree with you completely!

Maybe the reason that it still worked so well for me, was exactly that in our regular gaming groups (not counting online gaming...) there were no hardcore powergamers. I might have been the closest thing to a powergamer in those groups, but then I could also contain myself