After putting it off for years, I finally played in my first proper DND3.5 campaign. The GM is experienced but hasnt run a game in a fair few years, but the players are ready to give it a try, including me.
It didn't take long for us to realise that no matter how hard you try, combat is just a series of attempts to roll high on a D20 to hit the monsters. Now there is nothing wrong with this, its just that whatever role-playing attempts are made, e.g. descriptive methods of attempting to gain an advantage over a monster or situation or any combat edge is nullified because it isnt in the rules. It doesnt really matter what kind of character you are, its all about your Base Attack Bonus!
Well we intend to finish the short Eberron campaign, simply because he bought all the books and because we do have fun as a group, but not with the game itself. One new player commented about how little role-playing we did, and here is the perfect example of game which discourages role-playing to gain any advantage. Its closer to Hackmaster, in a weird way, DND is a badly implemented and unknowing tribute to Hackmaster. I would be happy to never play a D20 game again. Sorry.
Originally posted 16/01/06
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