D&D 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide Now In PDF!

Adding to the already-available PDF versions of the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Player's Handbook and Monster Manual, the D&D 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide has now popped up on DNDClassics.com in PDF format. Like the previous two, the 320-page PDF is only $9.99.

Get it here. Or grab the Player's Handbook and/or Monster Manual, too.

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Weave exciting tales of heroism filled with magic and monsters.

Within these pages, you’ll discover the tools and options you need to create detailed worlds and dynamic adventures for your players to experience in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

The revised Dungeon Master's Guide is an essential rulebook for Dungeon Masters of the D&D game. The Dungeon Master's Guide has been reorganized to be more user friendly.

It features information on running a D&D game, adjudicating play, writing adventures, nonplayer characters (including nonplayer character classes), running a campaign, characters, magic items (including intelligent and cursed items, and artifacts), and a dictionary of special abilities and conditions. Changes have been made to the item creation rules and pricing, and prestige classes new to the Dungeon Master's Guide are included (over 10 prestige classes).

The revision includes expanded advice on how to run a campaign and instructs players on how to take full advantage of the tie-in D&D miniatures line.

 

[Evenglare]

Very likely, there's one guy tasked with doing a final check of the PDFs before they go out, he can only do a few a week, and he's releasing them as he does them. So, would you rather they get done with a few weeks' gap between PHD, MM, and DMG, or would you rather they held back the PHB four weeks until the DMG (and MM) is done?

Personally I'd much rather them release them all at once. Anyway, they had these out before they pulled the PDFs several years ago, I don't buy the proof reading argument simply because they were available before Wizards completely lost their mind and kneejerked ALL of their PDFs offline.

 

[darjr]

I'm not shire about these but many are new cleaned up scans or include errata. And others were missing things when they were releasing earlier. I don't know if the release schedule was faster when they first started rereleasing.

 

[Random Bystander]

is it just me or do the old 3/3.5e books look so ghastly? I never liked them back then and now they dont seem to hold up, imo.

but, the book is more than just the art.

I only like the color coding

Those are the reprint covers. I disagree on the original covers; they have a distinctly grimoire-like style.

 

[Rabulias]

Personally I'd much rather them release them all at once. Anyway, they had these out before they pulled the PDFs several years ago, I don't buy the proof reading argument simply because they were available before Wizards completely lost their mind and kneejerked ALL of their PDFs offline.

True, but a few of the newer PDFs are much better than the PDFs that were available before the Great Yoink. I know I did not buy the 3.0 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting back then as it was reported to be a bad scan of the pages. The one for sale now is a clear, gorgeous, fully-searchable PDF. Others that I purchased before now seem to be a smaller file size, with no discernible (to my eyes, anyway) loss of image quality, so it looks like some optimization went on. Or maybe it's just newer software they are using to make the PDFs.

Also, the 3.0/3.5 core books were never available as a PDF, so some work needed to be done for those.

It is hard to believe that it's been over two years since PDFs returned. I did not think it would take them that long to get everything up for sale... and they still have some to go. I am also hoping for d20 Future to make it back for sale....

 

[Torg Smith]

Personally I'd much rather them release them all at once. Anyway, they had these out before they pulled the PDFs several years ago, I don't buy the proof reading argument simply because they were available before Wizards completely lost their mind and kneejerked ALL of their PDFs offline.

These are PDFs of the new reprints. The reprints did not exist back in 2008.

 

[delericho]

Personally I'd much rather them release them all at once. Anyway, they had these out before they pulled the PDFs several years ago, I don't buy the proof reading argument simply because they were available before Wizards completely lost their mind and kneejerked ALL of their PDFs offline.

The 3.5e core rulebooks are using the files from the recent reprints, which didn't exist at the point where the PDFs were pulled.

Additionally, as darjr notes, a lot of the files are new versions, because the old versions were of relatively poor quality. Which strengthens the "final approval" argument, especially if only some of the files are being replaced - that means someone is definitely going through them and deciding whether they're good to go or not.

 

[AmerginLiath]

While it would be nice to have all three out at once, having these PDFs in proper form and the best condition possible makes them the best possible "evergreen" product (even if it takes an extra few days for each to be proof-read and touched-up at WotC's end).

The fact that they're converting the files from the revised/rereleased 3.5 books into a PDF edition gives the indication that the rereleased files from the 1st and 2nd-edition AD&D printings are also probably going to be converted into PDFs (since I imagine that both were redone into XML documents when reprocessed for the anniversary printings, and so already exist in a format easily convertible into a fully-searchable PDF). It's probably just a matter of workflow for who they have working on these books' conversions – this end of the document conversion being simpler work than the whole job of reworking the books in the first place, but there's still lots of man-hours for each volume (especially given that each of these should prove to be an "evergreen" release).

At least we have some better idea of what WotC has been up to. It makes sense, of course, that they AREN'T going to make huge noise of "new" releases of old product if the current 5e release cycle is deliberately small (given the noise some are making about it).

 

[delericho]

The fact that they're converting the files from the revised/rereleased 3.5 books into a PDF edition gives the indication that the rereleased files from the 1st and 2nd-edition AD&D printings are also probably going to be converted into PDFs (since I imagine that both were redone into XML documents when reprocessed for the anniversary printings, and so already exist in a format easily convertible into a fully-searchable PDF).

Yep, very likely. Indeed, that was one of the side benefits of doing the reprints - they get nice electronic files that they can work with going forward.

 

[Random Bystander]

WotC seems to have put up more than just D&D:

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/44/Wizards-of-the-Coast?filters=0_0_0_44294_0

If the products get taken down, they are "action cards" for a wargame called "Up Front". However, WotC still seems to only have "D&D/d20" listed under "Rule System". If anyone feels up to a look through Drivethru, there could be more that didn't get noticed because it wasn't announced.

Edit: "Up Front" rulebook in .pdft: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144823/Up-Front-Rulebook-2nd-Edition?manufacturers_id=44