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Anyone still making 3.5e material?
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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5264003" data-attributes="member: 25619"><p>For me, it's not the availability of 3.5e trained players that's the problem. I have stable groups, and I built them largely by RECRUITING my own non-players and teaching the game -- or re-recruiting lapsed AD&D players who hadn't tried it for decades.</p><p></p><p>So the downsides for me with 3.5e forever are:</p><p>-- Low available/high cost of PHB's. I'm hording them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>-- Boredom for me. I like to read far more material than I'll ever run. This is partially solved by reading PF materials, but it seems like Paizo are the only people producing physical copy materials, at least that I can find in FLGS.</p><p></p><p>-- So far, one perspective player (who asked another player if he could join) then declined when he found it was "only" 3.5e, instead of the latest and greatest.</p><p></p><p>-- Decline of the hobby. One of the two FLGS in the town I live in closed. The non-owner worker told me that WOTC screw ups with a new version of MtG and 4e were a good part of the their problem (in his non-boss approved, possibly incorrect view).</p><p></p><p>Having dropped out of D&D from around 1990-1996 (partially due to unhappy feelings about 2nd Edition) and then run AD&D from 1996-2001, I think I can deal with the OOP issues. But used AD&D PHB's are always easy to find . . . that game had legs!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 5264003, member: 25619"] For me, it's not the availability of 3.5e trained players that's the problem. I have stable groups, and I built them largely by RECRUITING my own non-players and teaching the game -- or re-recruiting lapsed AD&D players who hadn't tried it for decades. So the downsides for me with 3.5e forever are: -- Low available/high cost of PHB's. I'm hording them. :) -- Boredom for me. I like to read far more material than I'll ever run. This is partially solved by reading PF materials, but it seems like Paizo are the only people producing physical copy materials, at least that I can find in FLGS. -- So far, one perspective player (who asked another player if he could join) then declined when he found it was "only" 3.5e, instead of the latest and greatest. -- Decline of the hobby. One of the two FLGS in the town I live in closed. The non-owner worker told me that WOTC screw ups with a new version of MtG and 4e were a good part of the their problem (in his non-boss approved, possibly incorrect view). Having dropped out of D&D from around 1990-1996 (partially due to unhappy feelings about 2nd Edition) and then run AD&D from 1996-2001, I think I can deal with the OOP issues. But used AD&D PHB's are always easy to find . . . that game had legs! [/QUOTE]
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