Gary Gygax R.I.P.

[Wrana]

Originally Posted by Gregstrom

Just to be odd, I rather liked 3E/3.5. It pretty much worked, and some bits I felt were silly in 2E got resolved. Some of this may have been related to using Arcana Unearthed, though.

I said that some things which should have been fixed were fixed in 3ed (thief skills and general ones were made the same, advanced classes, etc., more broad base for martial arts and similar "special tricks"). Still, it added much silliness of its own - but in any case not to the degree 4ed. did!
Unearthed Arcana for 3 ed. I didn't read - maybe it fixed something. Unearthed Arcana for 1ed. was certainly quite a good book - we even hybridized it with 2ed. (which was the time when we actually got it)!