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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zustiur" data-source="post: 4623831" data-attributes="member: 1544">Initially, gold box games cemented my idea of what DnD was, and thus my pen and paper games were quite similar, but then, we were playing 2E at the time. Constant combat with hardly any story worked in 2E because you needed the EXP. Back when it WAS EXP instead of XP (at least in my group. I have no idea what the books called it at the time).3E rolled around and I TPK'd the first session due to that same mentality. I toned it down and had fun exploring different parts of role playing. The different parts of DnD... and then I got caught up in EN world in all it's glory.I'd been following EN world since before the release of 3E, but only after my first few months of 3E did I discover story hours. Oh man. Piratecat and Sagiro's story hours! Those are the epitome of DnD to me now. They're everything I strive for in a plot based campaign. If the system doesn't fit those story hours (including all the necessary sacred cows) then it's just not DnD to me.In a few weeks I'll be starting a new 3E campaign, but this time focussed on the characters. I have no preconceived campaign plot to get in my way this time, just tonnes of ideas. If I reach my target - all the better, but if I don't, I'll still have a blast along the way.</blockquote>