Poll: Dungeons and Dragons?

[ranc0re]

So I was just playing the new 4th Edition of D&D for the first time I few nights ago, and it just didn't feel... well it just didn't feel like the D&D I've been playing for the past 10 years. Yes, it's great that they've simplified the rules, but I felt like all of the characters were cardboard cutouts of each other. You want to play as a fighter? Here's your fighter, pick these skills and stats. You want to be a cleric? Here's your cleric. Oh, he can cast mage spells too. The character didn't feel like I had created him, he was just given to me.

So it got me to thinking, what's your favourite edition of D&D, and do you like the new 4th Edition?

 

[Abedeus]

3.5D&D. It was in Neverwinter Nights (modified, but still) and I love it.

 

[Cheesebob]

Surely you jest!

 

[Omnidum]

1st edition. It leaves much to the creativity of the GM in form of modification.

 

[Therumancer]

I'm a 2E man, I feel they really dumbed it down with 3E and 4E just made things worse.

Of course I don't really do PnP RPGs much anymore. If they release a gold edition of NWN2 I'll probably pick it up (ie one with both expansion packs). I bought it when it first came out but after I got a new computer I couldn't get it to install right anymore, and have since misplaced the discs. Sad because it's one of those games I genuinely wanted to finish (but upgrading to my Quad Core system took priority).

Been working on Fallout 3, and Drakensang in the meantime with the occasional bout of console gaming.

>>>----Therumancer--->

 

[GyroCaptain]

I like how so many people have answered as D&D players. The nerdity will out.
(3.5 preferred, but playing in two separate 4E campaigns at the moment)

 

[PureChaos]

i didn't know there were different editions, i've only played one of them but don't know which one.

 

[Larenxis]

I'm DMing a game later today, and it'll be 3.5th edition. It's just what I'm used to. 4th edition is like American spelling. It's not worse, heck it's obviously easier, but it just doesn't feel right, and I have some intangible connection to Canadian spelling that borders on fanaticism.

 

[zebrin]

I personally found 3.5 to be one of the best editions, even if they DID dumb it down from the 2nd edition, it wasn't at the cost of RP experience.... I was able to make any character I wanted, and get what I wanted out of it. And the game was enjoyable!(Though that might have been the players and D.M. I was with...)
I don't see that in 4th edition, maybe it is too early, maybe they just don't have enough settings, or derivatives of classes yet, maybe the basis just sucks. I don't know, but the more I try to play it, the more I can''t stand how... dumbed down it was...
I could not role-play my character the way I wanted to, it was all about area control for a mage, damage soaking for a fighter, ect. ect. ect. I want to do something weird with my character, make a mage that casts in the middle of combat without worries, make a monk into what essentially amounts to a furry(he liked kobolds entirely too much) you know, make the character have... Character.
ehn, I would like to see 4E take off, but I think I will stick with 3.5 for now... maybe give it a year to get itself straight.

 

[Cool_Pat]

3.5. I gave 4th ed a go but it just seems too aimed at the kiddy market with very little room for actual roleplaying.

 

[GyroCaptain]

i didn't know there were different editions, i've only played one of them but don't know which one.

If people were talking about T.H.A.C.0, it's 2E. If they were talking about BAB, and there wasn't a 'thief' class but there was a barbarian class, it's 3E or 3.5. A system of at-will/encounter/daily powers is the main hallmark of 4E. Odds are good that it was a 3E or 3.5 game.

 

[PurpleRain]

I'm DMing a game later today, and it'll be 3.5th edition. It's just what I'm used to. 4th edition is like American spelling. It's not worse, heck it's obviously easier, but it just doesn't feel right, and I have some intangible connection to Canadian spelling that borders on fanaticism.

Which is really a toss up between American and British.

But yeah, on to the topic at hand:

3.5 all the way. It's not too simple, and is complex enough to find things you didn't know before. I still want to play a few different characters and styles. I need to play as a Thri-kreen monk one day, but all the DM's say it's too over-powered. I'll show them, I'll show them all!

 

[PureChaos]

i didn't know there were different editions, i've only played one of them but don't know which one.

If people were talking about T.H.A.C.0, it's 2E. If they were talking about BAB, and there wasn't a 'thief' class but there was a barbarian class, it's 3E or 3.5. A system of at-will/encounter/daily powers is the main hallmark of 4E. Odds are good that it was a 3E or 3.5 game.

wow, half of that made no sense whatsoever. i think i was a thief but it was years ago that we played it so i can't really remember. we (well, my friends who were into it) moved on (i just gave it a go as and when i was there) to Exalted ad made up our own ones. think we did an X-Men type one based years after the Magneto/human/mutant war but things weren't perfect. we each had our own mutant powers and stuff, that was great fun.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

I used to play 3.5, which was fun, haven't tried 4.0 but from what I've heard it's been boiled down into more of a combat game than a roleplaying game.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

AD&D for me, just because thats what I played first. Plus most the later ones weren't by Gary.

 

[flare09]

I've never played. The sad thing is that I actually want to, but 1. there isn't that many people that want to play it around where I live, and 2. I haven't the slightest idea what to actually look for gamewise.

 

[51gunner]

Playing 4'th, loving 4'th. Never tried any of the other ones, I just got into the game at 4'th.

 

[ntomlin63]

2nd edition is the only edition that really matters. 3.0/3.5 is a good game but its not dungeons and dragons no matter what wizards or hasbro says and 4.0 is something else entirely from what I hear.

 

[Plinglebob]

I've always been a fan of 3/3.5 edition. Was never really able to understand 2nd edition an the rules for 4th offer little in the way of custermization. In terms ofRP in 4th, the official line is they only really gave rules and stats/skills for combat because they didnt want roleplaying to be run and decided through dice rolls. While I may agree in theory, it definitely makes the game and character creation feel a little souless.

 

[McClaud]

I play Pathfinder now. Our 3.5 group moved to that format in our campaign.

And all my 4e players either quit (got bored with the blandness of the characters and their roles) or joined the grown-ups at the Pathfinder table.

I don't plan on going back to 3.5 unless I absolutely have to. Right now, the Pathfinder game is like 3.75 D&D, and much better (much, much closer to the versatility of 2nd Edition AD&D).