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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1303129" data-attributes="member: 8447">3.5 really bothers me -- it is, in the Auld Scots, nae fysshe, nae fowle, nae gude redde herringe -- not really a new edition, not really not a new edition.  No way am I going to pay for someone else's house rules (although I was willing to look through the SRD and cherry pick a few points, none of which included the creeping miniaturization or change in spell names or durations).Overall I see 3.5 only as a reason to get more money out of the community.  Yes, corporations are there to make money, but I see 3.5 as Hasbro-driven, rather than WotC-driven (much less fan-driven):  "Look!  Your rules are now out-of-date, as well as all your supplements!  Now you have to buy a new set immediately and all of the Third Party Publishers will have to change to keep up with us!"  Okay, okay, that is an extreme exaggeration, but I am not happy with the direction they are taking.Then again, I don't have a vested interest in any D&D baseline campaigns (FR, GH, or Ebbywhatever, the new one), so I am pretty much copacetic.  And since no one has forced me to buy the new rules, I am safe.  I'll keep up with my non-battleboard version of the game, thankyouverymuch, and be happy.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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