What version of D&D is your favourite to play (expanded poll)

[DungeonMaster]

most of which I forget about until I look at a 3e book and realise how bad some of the classes were (I'm looking at you, bard).

Free action bardic music, haste, eyebite, medium armor proficiency (mithral full-plate for the uninitiated) and tower shields makes the bard a pretty damn good class. Not to mention buff spells that last hours the 3rd edition bard leaves the 3.5 bard in the dust . The bard class in 3rd edition is pretty damn good, easily keeping pace with the other classes and excelling in a support role.
In case you've been tacitly ignoring message boards over the past several years your opinion about the 3.5 bard being a class that's par for course is not widely shared - even among rabid 3.5 fans. In fact the 3.5 bard is pretty damn terrible, standard action music, weak spells, poor armor hence AC and all around weak in combat and support role because it has no long duration buffs.
Wake up and smell the coffee, 2 skill points and bonuses easily got from other sources does not a class make.

for me, the major difference between 3.5e supplements and 3e supplements is that the designers had a much better handle on 3.5e design and didn't make as many mistakes - although they still make them from time to time.

3E and 3.5 supplements are equally flawed - your perception is odd to say the least. If you add up the numbers and magnitudes of the mistakes made in non-core 3.5 comes out the worst actually. Everything from Hulking hurlers to pun-pun to divine metamagic, thought bottles, metabreath weapons we owe to 3.5 (the list is much much longer of course).
If anything the designers were inexperienced and/or incompetent and rushed. And it shows.

 

[anhar]

I voted 3.5

some of the changes weren't spectacular (face/reach and the buff spells irk me), but fixing what the auld grump called "the H spells" and the actual existence of a class "progression" for rangers really did it for me. (yay for players who take more than 1 level of ranger!)

 

[The Shaman]

Sure, many answer who might never have seen other versions, but, that still means that they prefer x to y.

No, it means they like x, and have no basis for comparison with y.

Reading the threads, you might think that there's a fairly even split of the games that people play, assuming that people play their favourit game, it appears that 3.x is by far the most played game right now.

No, it means 3.5 is the preferred choice of the ENWorlders who voted in this poll.

(Google "self-selection.")

 

[+5 Keyboard!]

No, it means 3.5 is the preferred choice of the ENWorlders who voted in this poll.

Heh. Yeah. OK.

Voted 3.5. Started in 1983 with the Basic Set and played through all of the editions after that. The current edition is excellently streamlined for simplicity yet complex at the same time. Thing is, all of the old headaches from past editions have mostly disappeared. Now, there's more time to concentrate on playing the game rather than "fixing" it with endless house rules and controversial rules debates. This still goes on in some groups, but it definitely is less prevalent.

 

[The Shaman]

Heh. Yeah. OK.

Is D&D 3.5 the best-selling roleplaying game currently on the market? Yes. Is it the most widely-played roleplaying game at present? I imagine it may be - I'm sure the Whizzers could tell you with some certainty.

Is an ENWorld poll a precise means of assessing either of these phenomena? No.

(Again, google "self-selection.")

 

[+5 Keyboard!]

Nah... of course not. Out of 2,038 users currently online right now at the moment I'm typing this only 354 have voted on the subject. It's still a strong indicator, though not mathematically 100% accurate. But wander through various other messageboard forums dedicated to RPG games in all of their forms you see a very strong D&D v.3.5 presence. Again, it's not an exact science, but a pretty great indicator.

 

[Nightfall]

a hard pretzel is easy to find. they are a dime a dozen. i guess they aren't like gamer men. IYKWIMAITYD

Yeah I know but it's a little harder to find GOOD hard pretzels, especially old sourdough. But you are right, finding gamers, that's much much tougher.

 

[Arnwyn]

though not mathematically 100% accurate.

Master of the understatement.

 

[Nightfall]

Arn,

I think Key is a great master of that!

 

[+5 Keyboard!]

Master of the understatement...

Umm... Thanks. (I think)