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Wizards Releases 3.5 Edition System Reference

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rules-lawyering-and-world-building dept.

Randar the Lava Liza writes "Wizards of the Coast have released the 3.5 Edition System Reference Document. Essentially it's the three core rulebooks in RTF format. This includes the 3.5 Edition Player's Handbook, 3.5 Edition Dungeon Master's Guide and 3.5 Edition Monster Manual. All of these are released under their Open Gaming License. You can also read a very interesting review of 3.5 Edition by Monte Cook, one of the original creators of 3rd Edition D&D. He goes into detail on a number of the changes in this new edition."

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  1. Damn you Hasbro!!!! by WildFire42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Damn you for making me buy something else to keep up with current D&D gaming! Damn you for not respecting the gamers, your true source of...

    Wait, you mean I can download it?

    Without Kazaa?

    I'm dead sure I'll get modded to hell for this, but for the cynicism impaired, I'm making a slight social commentary on bi*ching gamers who have, for years, complained about first about T$R, then about Wi$ard$ of the Coa$t, now about Ha$bro, if you catch my drift. Oddly, I don't hear that many Warhammer fans who bitch about GW though, and they actually have some very good reasons to (80 dollars for a few pieces of unpainted plastic? Some assembly required, of course).

    1. Re:Damn you Hasbro!!!! by Mandoric · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Warhammer's the game. "Game$ Work$hop", as would be used here, is the producing company.

      And, yeah, I'll back up his point... everybody at uni complained about the prices -except- for those who played.

  2. It's quite nice really by Jonsey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've got the 3rd edition books, even bought 'em locally to help my gameshop. I now have a SRD with the majority of 3.5's changes.

    Due to easier format, I now have a snazzy, easy reference to rules I had been bending my DMG to get photocopies of (Those last ~8 pages)

    Maybe I'm somewhat alone in the no-screen DMing... But it makes my concience clear when I kill a PC :D

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    I assert that my comment is only my opinion, not that of any employer, past, present or future.
  3. Re:d20 Rocks by blacksway · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Re: Bioware
    Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, and Icewind Dale all used AD&D second edition rules. Icewind Dale II used a mish-mash of the two I believe.

    Re: Cost to license D20 or OGL
    Nothing. Not a jot. Its Free. Use it, modify it and release under the same license.

    Re: Cost to license the "Dungeons and Dragons" name
    Lots!

  4. damn RTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm very happy that WoTC released their rules, and I probably sound like a jerk for bitching, but I wish the information was in a more useful format then RTF.

    The D20 rules would really benefit from a conversion to heavily linked HTML, so that I can quickly hop around between skills/spells/feats etc.

    Anyone agree?

    More importantly, anyone willing to assist with such a conversion? We've got at least a couple of years before the next version is out, so a hyperlinked D20 ruleset would be useful for a long time.

  5. More clearly... by Uriel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People are reacting without actually knowing anything. Many people in the community rail against this or that change they've heard about without considering the new rules as a whole. The SRD is free, go read it.

    Though reacting before reading is a pretty common /. problem.