hewhorocks wrote on Aug 9th, 2010 at 5:45am:But to GMan's point I dont think anyone could argue that 4th is a replacement for 3rd. Though for my money the simplier you go in 3rd the better.
"Attack of the splats" was never my preferred method.
Yeah, what you said, precisely.
To your point about 1st & 4th, you are right...no one likely forgets that D&D started as miniature rules with Chain Mail,
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I'm just not willing to invest time, money & effort into 4th edition for my previously stated reasons.
Also, one HUGE thing for me with 3.5..is the d20 system itself.
I like running a d20 Modern game too, and just love the fact that rules are essentially the same. That is making it extremely easy to teach my kids how to play both "genres" and the rule system is rather elegant at it's most basic level.
Less is more with all the extra rulesets and feats though, but that's easy to house rule away.