3.5e "Unearthed Arcana"

[Sanackranib]

prior editions

I still refer back to older editions for clairity especially for the spells

 

[Deadguy]

I'll add a third one for ya: I doubt that it will be long before a "conversion document" is available by some dedicated fan out on the 'net, and most people concerned about "having to print it all out" will have little to concern them. Since it's all SRD, a conversion document listing all changes from old SRD to new is perfectly legal.

How long d'you reckon? I'd say 48 hours from release to get a reasonable document in .PDF?

 

[KDLadage]

3.5 in an Unearthed Arcana volume? -> I hope not.

I would not want to see this for mostly the reasons presented.

However, I would like to (once again) go on record as having said that the idea of calling this 3.5 is the worst marketing move WotC has made in a long time.

3.1? Sure, this would make sense.

3eRevised? Another good choice.

3.5? Makes me wonder what 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 were. What did I miss?

 

[Chun-tzu]

Re: 3.5 in an Unearthed Arcana volume? -> I hope not.

3.5? Makes me wonder what 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 were. What did I miss?

If this were 3.1, people would be wondering when 3.2 would be coming out. I believe this is the definitive revision (subject, of course, ro further errata) that will take us to 4E, years down the line. This is the halfway edition between 3E and 4E. There will be no revised, revised edition.

 

[Deadguy]

Personally I would've borrowed from White Wolf, called this the Revised Third Edition, and listing it as 3R. Simple, easy to remember, and easy to spot.

 

[Gez]

The 3.5 gimmick is not WotC's fault, they havn't started it. They only speak about D&D Revised. I tried to alter the abrev to 3.R, but to no avail.

Although, technically, one may say that D&D 3.1 is core books + splatbook, 3.2 is D&D with psionics, etc.

 

[Katowice]

I buy all my RPG books from buy.com. They have a 30-40% discount and no shipping charges. I get all my $30 WotC books for under $20.

With all the talk about 3.5e, I'm getting a tad apprehensive. I don't like the thought of having to shell out $90 for the revised books. (Although I can just download the SRD, in which case I'd have to print the entire thing out since I hate reading documents on the computer screen.) I've come to the conclusion that perhaps Wizards is persuing 3.5e the wrong way. Since 3e came out Wizards has issued 3e editions of many of the classic AD&D books (Dieties&Demigods, Manual of the Planes, etc.) Perhaps instead of releasing 3 seperate revised books, they can simply release the new rules in a single tome called Unearthed Arcana. I wouldn't hesistate to spend $30-$35 for a book with all the errata and new and optional rules (especially to see the ranger revised.) However, I guess such a thing isn't a good marketing strategy. It's a shame since I seriously doubt that I'm going to pick up 3.5e.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Several things in here, William Ronald didn't say them all, but he had the longest quote, so...

HellHound, Deadguy, I agree with you both.

One of the problems I had with 2nd Edition is that it seemed a lot of the books referred back to the other books. Maybe it was me, but I got the feeling that if you picked up one Forgotten Realms supplement from TSR, you almost needed to pick up two or three previous releases to get your full dollar's worth. (At least now, Wizards has reprinted feats and other information that has been published in previous works in some of the newer books. Saves me from having to dig through several books for one thing.) Having everything in one book, and having to refer back to one of three books, would really bog down game play.

I look at D&D 3.5 with some optimism. At least now, we can grumble about something and get a response.

Yeah, but now we have been given the alternative: nothing from WotC (or anyone else because they're not SRD) refers to anything in Manual of the Planes, MM2, Epic Level Handbook, or Deities and Demigods. Is there anything out there that uses material from Oriental Adventures besides Rokugan? I wish they could have somehow bend their policy to have MotP options in, say the Adventure Path modules that go to the planes.

However, I would like to (once again) go on record as having said that the idea of calling this 3.5 is the worst marketing move WotC has made in a long time.

Pronounce 3.5 as "three-and-a-half". Sound more comforting? Makes it less likely that there will be a "three-and-three-quarters", doesn't it?

My wife and I have differnt printings of the PHB (since I didn't embrace 3e until about a year after it came out. with all the erratta they have had to publish since I might welll be waiting for a 2nd printing of those as well

Yeah, and how much of the errata was correcting spelling changes and punctuation errors? How much was substantive? How much wasn't made available and public (especially the substantive) very quickly? WotC never ran D&D like they do Magic.

 

[ced1106]

I'm still bemused that fantasy is a genre that's inconsistent, at best, in fiction writing and media, yet in D&D, we somehow **need** The One True Way of Fantasy. IMO, Beyond combat rules, I doubt it really matters if one player plays a 3.0 Ranger, while another plays a 3.x one. Sure, some particulars and details for anything that's broken (eg. Haste) need to be fixed, but I think it's okay to have different editions of a class, spell, monster, magic item, or whathaveyou. You'll still be able to play the game.

Besides -- You need to save your money for those prepainted D&D figures, right?


Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^

 

[Sanackranib]

prepainted

nah, I paint my own