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I play a dragonborn,
and as DM, my Dragonborn guiding the PCs asince two others are the only ones in the school.

I play 3.5, spent WAY too much money to convert to 4e. got about 90% of the good books

I did years ago.

Always a chaotic good mage....
I prefered original D&D to later versions (AD&D on) as it was so simple. May be that I was in high school at the time though.

What about the ten others who view this thread?

I´m painting a new figure for my character right now. I play a human fighter but I change figures almost on a game session basis. I even used a SScorpion Exarch once just for fun.

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Miguelsan wrote:I´m painting a new figure for my character right now. I play a human fighter but I change figures almost on a game session basis. I even used a SScorpion Exarch once just for fun.

M.

I'm new, what's an Exarch?

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I played D&D 3rd edition. DragonLance FTW (War of the Lance time period)

Miguelsan wrote:This guy



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Ohhh.... I knew that....I just didn't remeber/ thought of them as those snake people...

I recently started playing again. A buddy of mine had been lamenting for years about missing RPG's and found a group that plays regularly and asked me to go along. We play RPGA rules in 4th Edition. I've played the Red Box, AD&D, and 3rd edition in the past. Never had a regular game, just here and there.

After all the moaning and crying about it, I have to say that i really enjoy 4th Edition. The out of combat rules are streamlined to allow the players to actually have to roleplay and use their imaginations instead of having to have a stat in every minor ability/trait/proficiency and the combat rules are fairly easy to understand but have a great amount of variation in the details. Like MtG, reading the rules doesn't give a good sense of how they actually play. It isn't perfect by any stretch but it is fun, which is the point I think.


I have a Dragonborn Warlord, Genasi Swordmage, and a Warforged Wizard. I mostly use Reaper figs for my characters.

No DnD for me. Mostly shadowrun a few years ago. I think I enjoyed making characters more then the game. Still fun to hang out with and screw around with some friends!

My friends and I are starting up DnD 4th edition.

Should be very interesting!

I haven't played DnD in about ten years. I tried 3.0, but didn't care for it.

My group prefers Savage Worlds to anything else. My personal favorite is Wild Talents.

My group used to play D&D, but we found better systems than what Wizards came up with. We used to play 3.5 and 4e (Though much of the group grew to hate 4e for some reason) and then decided to give Pathfinder RPG a try. We're also currently playing around with Dark Heresy.

I started playing 3.5 at university. Used to play a human paladin.

Was pretty fun, but the rest of my gaming group was more interested in playing D20 modern (set in the Marvel universe). Now I have no gaming group, as I moved house and am no longer at university.

I played AD&D, but around 94 began creating my own system for fantasy, taking inspiration from AD&D and Warhammer fantasy and a load of my own ideas.

We tend to use this almost exclusively for Fantasy themed RPG's. Although do use Dark Heresy, World of Darkness etc for other settings.

We also tried D20, but where really put off by the feats system, felt it was way too limiting, and although I have the 4th books, they are for reference only. Plus I got them when I was mod of a RPG forum, thus I felt I should have all the main rulesets.

i used to. I don't anymore. 4e is terrible. I'd be inclined to play 3.5 again, but i tend to DM and I don't have time for it. I have most books going back to the beginning in pdf form.

Howlingmoon wrote:4e is terrible.

Could you be more specific. Just saying it doesn't mean much without saying why. Is it the ease of use? Or that you aren't pigeonholed into alignments? That melee characters can do more? That Wizards aren't OP?

My friends and I play 3.5 in between other games systems (All Flesh Must be Eaten and Mage are a couple of other systems we enjoy), it's a good system which allows for flowing Roleplaying and the fight scnes can be done either quickly and entirely through description and a couple of dice rolls, or with a quickly drawn map and some miniatures if we want to take our time over it.

We tried 4e a couple of times, but we didn't like it much. Everything felt clunky, you could still RP just fine, but when you hit a fight scene everything became too regimented, the list of powers made it feel more like a card game tacked into the middle of an RP and the fights took forever if people weren't intimately familiar with every power they and the rest of the party were fielding.

We went back to 3.5 pretty quick and haven't looked back.

I played a lot of 3.5. Always had a lot of fun with it. Then I graduated college, got married, had kids, 4.0 rolled out and I just didn't have the time or money to bother switching. The two big long running characters I had were a LE dragon disciple fighter and a Paladin/Weapons Master. With the first I made all kinds of trouble for the group, with the second I made the GM cry.

Ahtman wrote:

Howlingmoon wrote:4e is terrible.

Could you be more specific. Just saying it doesn't mean much without saying why. Is it the ease of use? Or that you aren't pigeonholed into alignments? That melee characters can do more? That Wizards aren't OP?

If you want to turn this into a flame war I'd be more than happy to oblige you... via PM. Insulting people for not having your exact same tastes is not a nice thing to do.

I'll grant you that he said '4E is terrible' first. But I'd bet there's an unstated 'in my opinion' in there.

As for me... In my opinon 4E is terrible. Terribly sorry if you disagree.


Back to the OP:

Played through 3.5 editions of D&D. Obviously 4E is not my cup of tea. Generally I play either skirmish-type warriors (rangers and such) or sneak-thieves.

Not for ages. Lots of 2e back in the day, some 3.5 a couple years back.

Not interested in 4e, but want to try some Pathfinder 3.x

On fridays i play 3.5 and on wednesdays i play 4.0

I like 3.5 better. More room for customisation. BTW druids and cleric are OP in 3.0/3.5 Wizards are only op at epic level in 3.5

Vulcan wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Howlingmoon wrote:4e is terrible.

Could you be more specific. Just saying it doesn't mean much without saying why. Is it the ease of use? Or that you aren't pigeonholed into alignments? That melee characters can do more? That Wizards aren't OP?

If you want to turn this into a flame war I'd be more than happy to oblige you... via PM. Insulting people for not having your exact same tastes is not a nice thing to do.

Boy, talk about flying off the rails. I just asked him to be more specific in why he disliked it. I never said anything about any system being better than another. It is a silly argument as it is apples and oranges. If you like it I love it. All I did was point out some of the nice things about fourth.

You are an idiot. - THAT is an insult.

What was it that you didn't like? Here are some things that are good about it. - That is nowhere near the realm of insult.

I played first edition D&D then switched to RuneQuest and other games.

I play a chaotic neutral Barbarian.

Play 3rd Ed. Either DM or when i play i'm usually an insectile halfling rogue. Don't do much damage but some of the skill bonuses are cool. Managed to hide ON THE TOP of a guards HEAD once! haha!

oh yeah in 3.5 i play a human fighter/warblade, in 4.0 a dragonborn palladin.

We have 2 campaigns in 3.5 for 2 weeks my bro dm's his campaign so i play, Then i dm my campaigns for 2 weeks. Atm i am waiting for my players to show up so we can start in about half an hour.

Grtz
L.D.

"Retired from the game" after I landed a real job. Started in 2.0, DMed a lot in 3/3.5.

Most enjoyed playing a Knight w/ Cleric cohort under 100% control... that DM nearly cried (couldn't figure out how to legitimately challenge me in combat without killing the whole party).

Last character was a Cleric (Life/Death), and a sociopathic self-proclaimed god (being able to kill or revive with a touch? I mean, c'mon!). With memorable adventures such as beating down the party's paladin for claiming me a blasphemer, to fighting to the death with a custom campaign setting's Blood Goddess... he was fun too.

Ahtman wrote:

Howlingmoon wrote:4e is terrible.

Could you be more specific. Just saying it doesn't mean much without saying why. Is it the ease of use? Or that you aren't pigeonholed into alignments? That melee characters can do more? That Wizards aren't OP?

How about we start at "they tried to make DnD a table-top MMO and failed miserably"?