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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZetaStriker" data-source="post: 4231444" data-attributes="member: 64840">Hmm... well, I started playing 3.x back in '05. I had been participating in several forum rps that used everything from custom rulesets to BESM. A couple (short lived) 3.0 games cropped up on the forum at one point, and I hopped on board and dove into the SRD. I'd played AD&D when I was really young because a friend of mine's older brother didn't have anyone else to DM for. The fond memories brought me to a 'find a gaming group in your area' type website, and I found a DM that lived nearby.Things started off great, and eventually I started DM for a few of my normal friends. It took off, and I ended up with a group of 3-5 people on average, running through a tweaked version of the Age of Worms campaign. I eventually 'won' when the PCs failed to try to retreat in time after Filge showed up again in place of the Mind Flayer in the Doppleganger-centric adventure in the Free City. It wasn't a tpk, but it was bad enough that no one, myself included, was happy with the results(although it didn't help their perceptions when I did a 'TPK Dance' earlier on in that session when a newbie to the game threw a Fireball into a crowded party, killing every PC while barely hurting any of the monsters... I allowed a do-over). 2 of 4 people died, one escaped, and the other was trapped alone underground with a pack of supernaturally enhanced zombies blocking the only exit. This, together with a few other real life events, led to our group falling apart, and some other concerns(primarily that the DM was a jerk and I didn't want to get involved in his divorce...) caused me to leave the group I was in as a player.Technically, 3.x never stopped being fun for me. If I played in a game right now, I'd still enjoy it. But I recognize all the problems WotC and others are pointing out in the system, and they drove me crazy. 4th Edition really excites me for this reason, and I'm currently in the process of rounding up members of my old group, as well as some new players, for the campaign I'll run with this ruleset. It's tough, since the two friends that were most into it have both joined the Marines and gone off somewhere, but I should be able to get at least 3-5 people for a new game by mid June, sooner if I decide to run KotS with the pregens.</blockquote>

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