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Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rules-updates-or-cash-cow? dept.

WorselWorsel writes "The new edition of the seminal Dungeons & Dragons paper-RPG comes out this Friday and d20zines.com has this review. This is the first new edition of D&D since Hasbro acquired Wizards of the Coast. The last edition came out almost two years ago, and this time around the prices of three core books are up by $10 each. Since these are partially incompatible with older 3rd edition books, WotC is printing/making downloadable a short booklet explaining some changes." In addition to being a product review, it's a good overview of what's changed since 3rd edition, and really helps one decide if the changes are important enough to rebuy the core rulebooks.

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  1. Price Up? Hardly by Ondo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    this time around the prices of three core books are up by $10 each

    Up $10 over the price of the old books when they were first released. Exactly the same price as the old books have been selling at since January 2001.

  2. Don't forget it's Open source! by Planesdragon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    (I'm always amazed by how much /. ignores this.)

    D&D has been, since 3.0 came out, the lead-runner in "Open Gaming."

    Go to this page on WotC's website, and you can get quite nearly every rule in the core 3.0 books--soon to be quite nearly every rule from the core 3.5 books.

    The only rule that's really missing is awarding XP--and there are easily a half-dozen ways to find that on the web.

    (So, everyone who's complaining about a 3 year turnaround for a revision--do you complain about how quickly Linux gets a new kernal, or how swiftly Mozilla moves from 1.0 through 1.4?)