Comments on: Bad Rules (D&D 3.5 Edition) http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2009/11/12/bad-rules-dd-3-5-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bad-rules-dd-3-5-edition Flashlights and Explosions Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: saalon http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2009/11/12/bad-rules-dd-3-5-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 saalon Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:08:34 +0000 http://www.saalonmuyo.com/?p=697#comment-1755 First, let me say that a system can be broken and still be enjoyable to play. I play an awful lot of incomplete and broken RPG systems that are only palatable because we've houseruled them into something usable. So don't take this post a screed against your right to enjoy 3.5 at your table. But. 3.5 is very, very broken. I played it from the day it came out through the first year of 4th edition's release. I don't want to rehash what I said above, so I'll just note that every single rule in my article has been addressed in 4th edition. In fact, getting back up from prone has been changed in the exact way I suggested; it takes a move action but doesn't provoke an attack. A side note. My campaign was especially susceptible to these problems. My enemies were primarily humanoid weapon users. Certainly there are lots of monsters that can't be disarmed or tripped, but I shouldn't be using creatures that don't fit into the campaign so I can avoid a giant rule pitfall. First, let me say that a system can be broken and still be enjoyable to play. I play an awful lot of incomplete and broken RPG systems that are only palatable because we’ve houseruled them into something usable. So don’t take this post a screed against your right to enjoy 3.5 at your table.

But.

3.5 is very, very broken. I played it from the day it came out through the first year of 4th edition’s release. I don’t want to rehash what I said above, so I’ll just note that every single rule in my article has been addressed in 4th edition. In fact, getting back up from prone has been changed in the exact way I suggested; it takes a move action but doesn’t provoke an attack.

A side note. My campaign was especially susceptible to these problems. My enemies were primarily humanoid weapon users. Certainly there are lots of monsters that can’t be disarmed or tripped, but I shouldn’t be using creatures that don’t fit into the campaign so I can avoid a giant rule pitfall.

]]> By: a fathom sickly http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2009/11/12/bad-rules-dd-3-5-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-1754 a fathom sickly Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:03:23 +0000 http://www.saalonmuyo.com/?p=697#comment-1754 I understand what you're saying but not everything can be tripped disarmed or grappled i believe its more of a flavor thing. There are usually, but not always more npc or monsters than there are pcs, so disarming helps them out, sundering i think is almost useless, and grappling takes one npc out of the fight but also a pc aswell so i dont see why it matters if one char. is better at it than others. I mean no insult or offense i just dont really understand why you say the system is broken. I play 3.5 I understand what you’re saying but not everything can be tripped disarmed or grappled i believe its more of a flavor thing. There are usually, but not always more npc or monsters than there are pcs, so disarming helps them out, sundering i think is almost useless, and grappling takes one npc out of the fight but also a pc aswell so i dont see why it matters if one char. is better at it than others. I mean no insult or offense i just dont really understand why you say the system is broken. I play 3.5

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