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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 3719458" data-attributes="member: 38357"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> So, this is mostly tongue-in-cheek. Not entirely, but enough so that I thought putting it under "Humor" was appropriate... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> So I've been meaning to (and brainstorming on) getting an online (OpenRPG or MapTools) game going. Only now it almost seems kind of pointless to start up a 3.5 game, especially given that online play (apparently, I'm new at this play-by-wire stuff...) takes longer than f2f. I mean, if nothing else waiting for the D&D Game Table means an opportunity to be lazy until it's up and running (and I never like to pass up an opportunity for laziness!)But I had a thought: If not 3.5, what about 1e? I've got the books, I still know the system, I could run a game with virtually zero prep... So, why not? Well, for one thing my D&D has been pretty much strictly 3e since 3.0 came out, and it was "not much at all" before that as far back as the release of 2e. I'm not the same gamer and I'm not the same DM that I was in the late 70s to the late 80s.So, I'm wondering: can you go back? Really? I'm pretty sure that using tables instead of BAB isn' going to bother me, the leveling curve and initiative systems are things I've missed while playing 3.5, but there is stuff in 3.5 that I just love. And there's part of the rub: Dare I wander over to Dragonsfoot if I'm not ready to denounce "thee later editions" completely? Actually, I'm pretty sure that's a dumb question, but I can say that I do feel a little guilty every time I read one of Diaglo's posts: there's just something really pure about knowing exactly what game you want to play and being able to wave a copy at people. (I, personally, am convinced that my "one true game" not only does not exist, but that is actually quite impossible in anything you could describe as "reality".)However a more serious problem is: "Can I resist the urge to house-rule in the parts of 3.5 that I like?" And maybe I shouldn't be trying to resist this urge, except that I know what happens when I go on a house-ruling spree, and a little over 15 years ago I was (finally) convinced by several of my players at the time (a kind of DM intervention, ho-ho!) that it just isn't cool; that no player wants to have a 300-page "house-rules document" dropped on top of a 160-page rulebook, or even read more than about a dozen pages, tops, in any case.So I think it comes down to: Can I go back to a simpler D&D, something I've been whining about wanting for nearly 20 years, or is it just too late for me? Am I doomed to forever see feats and PrCs and multi-classing options in my head when a player describes their character? I guess, if I can get up off my seat-interface-surface and actually get started I'll find out...</blockquote>

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