I'm grateful that my parents prepared me for all of these basic life tasks. The only task that befuddled me was using a credit card for the first time during my senior year of college.
It's been several years since I've played D&D or any RPG, but I was content with Second Edition rules. I do remember thinking that 3.5 was an unnecessary change to 3.0 and probably just a way of trying to get players to buy a new set of books.
That one was a bit off.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skitt's_Law