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<blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 4942955" data-attributes="member: 59096">You can also look at things in the opposite direction. That 3E, with its wide spread of system mastery and infinite possibilities served RPGA badly. From what I've heard about 3E era RPGA, it was set up for the hardcore convention audience. Players in 3E were free to build crippled failures or world smashers, and its hard for a standard format to accommodate both. Again, from what I've heard, 3E RPGA tended to try to challenge the world smashers. In addition, spellcasters were more free to stack up on world/battle changing &quot;campaign smasher&quot; spells due to the effective nerf placed on simple blasting spells, which were too useful to ignore in AD&amp;D. 3E also contained a much larger variety of those types of spells. From that viewpoint, better serving the RPGA is more of a side goal, simply correcting something the previous edition didn't do well. Its hard to argue that 4E hasn't led to an explosion of RPGA play in casual FLGS and home formats.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thecasualoblivion, post: 4942955, member: 59096"] You can also look at things in the opposite direction. That 3E, with its wide spread of system mastery and infinite possibilities served RPGA badly. From what I've heard about 3E era RPGA, it was set up for the hardcore convention audience. Players in 3E were free to build crippled failures or world smashers, and its hard for a standard format to accommodate both. Again, from what I've heard, 3E RPGA tended to try to challenge the world smashers. In addition, spellcasters were more free to stack up on world/battle changing "campaign smasher" spells due to the effective nerf placed on simple blasting spells, which were too useful to ignore in AD&D. 3E also contained a much larger variety of those types of spells. From that viewpoint, better serving the RPGA is more of a side goal, simply correcting something the previous edition didn't do well. Its hard to argue that 4E hasn't led to an explosion of RPGA play in casual FLGS and home formats. [/QUOTE]

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