Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3802259" data-attributes="member: 1465">In my case, I totally ignored the 3.0 SRD for years, since I had the books. Only when Sovelior & Sage made their great HTML-based SRD (for 3.5), I wish they had done it for 3.0 too, because I was trying it with 3.5 and found that using it on a small laptop made it faster to check up rules.However, I played 3.5 from the SRD only. I didn't want to buy the new books because, while I was enthusiastic about the revision, I was trying to avoid the early prints which have potentially more errata. We played it 6 months, and as my enthusiasm turned to disappointment, we realized that it was not worth buying the books. If we had liked the revision, we would have certainly played it from the books and not from the SRD (and we were playing if from the SRD but using the 3.0 books all the time...).Since then, we've played 3.0 exclusively, from the books. I still look up at the 3.5 SRD when discussing stuff in the forums.So what can I say... in my own experience the 3.5 SRD really made me not buy the 3.5 books, and basically I missed all 3.5 supplements as well (except Unearthed Arcana, which I bought anyway after hearing lots of good things about it - but IIRC, before they put it in the SRD). Did WotC lose 3 purchases from me because of the SRD? Yes... but if I had bought the three 3.5 corebooks and found later that I disliked them, I would have been much more pissed off. I don't know if I would have been here now, wondering if I should be buying the 4e books for example.edit: It's possible that the SRD has spoiled me... I actually think I'll probably do the same with 4e: watch the SRD before buying it. But OTOH nowadays without a preview I really don't shell out my money on anything...</blockquote>

Verification