D&D "director's cut" - how much material, for what price?

Driddle

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Imagine another v3.5 D&D "core" Player's Handbook, but this one's totally buffed up with some of the new material found in the "Complete" series of books -- extra core classes, feats, skill uses ... The SUV or Hummer gas-guzzler PHB, so to speak.

What would you want to include, and how much would it be worth to you in a hardbound volume with pretty new art?
 

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If we're just talking a compilation, all the new core classes, feats, skill uses, spells and dominions (keeping the Prcs, monsters and other bits for the 'director's cut' books that they belong in) and about $75 bones.
 

It would depend on the specific additions, but I might pay $40-50. If they added the Swashbuckler and Warlock, that'd be good. Plus some of the feats (there's only a narrow selection that I'd want to see "core", though), and a few spells (but not the no-save Evocations masquerading as Conjurations). A few weapons would be nice, too. PrCs are the purview of the DM and shouldn't be in the PHB.

Hmm... Come to think of it, I'm not sure there's enough core-worthy content in the "Complete X" books for me to pay much more money. A totally cherry-picked "special edition" of the PHB would probably only be worth $40, tops.
 

I'm not sure I'd want too much added into a "Director's cut". I think the core books are a little short on clerical domains, so a few more would be nice. But I think the PHB has enough spells and feats and classes for a core book. Putting more in would, imho, brign the book into the realm of many "director's cut" movies that drag on far longer than they really need to.
 

Hm, for a Director's Cut PHB, I'd want somethign more like optional rules or variant ways of handling certain rules that didn't make the cut into the 3.5 PHB. Or maybe alternate progressions for each class. That sort of thing. It'd be more like AU than the Complete books.
 

You know what my dream version would be? A way to custom-build my PHB. Choose contents from the various Complete X, Races, etc. books to add, drop a few things as needed, and generate the "My Setting PHB" as a downloadable, indexed, searchable PDF. Add in a "game group license" so I can make X copies for +$Y, and I'm really happy.
 

Tigerbunny said:
You know what my dream version would be? A way to custom-build my PHB. Choose contents from the various Complete X, Races, etc. books to add, drop a few things as needed, and generate the "My Setting PHB" as a downloadable, indexed, searchable PDF. Add in a "game group license" so I can make X copies for +$Y, and I'm really happy.

That's not a bad idea. I'm sure there'd be a way to set that up with the SRD and all the OGC material out there. Then again, the system for selling such a customized product might be pretty tough to put together and maintain.
 

I'd rather make a PHB 2 compiling the extra base classes from OA (updated to 3.5), Eberron (the Artificer), the MiniHB, and the Complete line, and the new races (Goliath, Illumian, Raptoran, plus the four Eberron ones). The aim would be to allow an alternate, and weird, D&D that would not use the races and classes from the PHB 1. :)

But for a Director's Cut PHB...
I'd add the Hexblade, Warlock, Sohei, Scout, Healer, Marshall, and Warmage.
No new race, though. We don't have enough room for them.
Compilation of the spells from the Complete and Races of added.

In fact, I think for a proper director's cut, I would reorganize the three core books into four or five.
1. Player's Handbook: races, classes, feats, skills, core rules. Contains psionic classes and Eberron/OA/Mini/Complete classes.
2. Dungeon Master's Guide: as the current DMG, without the magic items, but with many more prestige classes. (One or two from each of the Complete books, the EPH psionic PrC, and most of the Races of PrC.) Would include the Magewright NPC class, and maybe a psionic version of the adept as well.
3. The Tome of Magic. Spells and magic items, plus psionic powers.
4. Monster Manual: Mundane & Magical (with monsters sorted by creature type, with Animal, Construct, Dragon, Fey, Humanoid, Giant, Magical Beast, Monstrous Humanoid, Ooze, Plant, Undead, and Vermin chapter). Would have an appendix with nature ally table and ready-to-use stat-blocks.
5. Monster Manual: Otherwordly (likewise, with Aberrations, Elementals, and Outsiders.) Appendix with summon monster tables and ready-to-use stat-blocks (notably for celestial/fiendish/axiomatic/anarchic/pseudonatural/etc. versions of critters).
 

Tigerbunny said:
You know what my dream version would be? A way to custom-build my PHB. Choose contents from the various Complete X, Races, etc. books to add, drop a few things as needed, and generate the "My Setting PHB" as a downloadable, indexed, searchable PDF. Add in a "game group license" so I can make X copies for +$Y, and I'm really happy.

Sounds like a job for Mark from Creative Mountain Games. :)
 


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