Re: little question

 I have DM'd all 3 editions over the years and I found that the super
powered PC's came from 2ed and they even get a boost if they used the PO
books. Now I liked the ideas that some of the PO books had but the problem
was that they were not balanced. 1e was very limited as far as option for
the PC goes so basically every PC of a given class was pretty much the same
(boring) 3e has many of the good parts from both editions and it is
balanced. It gives many option while remaining balanced with the rest of the
game. Also I found DMing the rules portion of the game a lot easier.

-----Original Message-----
From: JJJ [mailto:ladob@???????.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:34 PM
To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] little question


In regards to 3rd ed. feeling.
I myself stick to the older editions.
3rd ed., is very interesting but it has a manga-feeling to it, the heroes
are mega powerful, the monsters, in turn, are EVEN more powerful and so and
so...

The feeling of the play is more like an playstation rpg, than the usual
table playing.
If you re-read some of the monster set in the 1st Non-Human war, like the
bionoids, this manga-feeling can be quite appropriate.

However, i find the spirit of spelljammer more like "weird", with a mix of
medieval and 1600s heroes, with a mercantile aspect to it. The lower level
of play, and harder progression of levels of the old editions sound better
to me for an exploration type game than the escalating power of 3rd edition.
I must remark that 3rd ed, style is very good for more linear story lines,
with set villains and a lot of preparation by DMs.

Helpful? :)

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