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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 6295783" data-attributes="member: 10479">My bad.  I meant June 2003.  I came out with the 3.5 SRD Revised on July 1, 2003.<a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/17705/Aid-SRD-35-Revised-Full-Bundle" target="_blank">http://www.rpgnow.com/product/17705/Aid-SRD-35-Revised-Full-Bundle</a>I (and I think delericho) was referring to the time before the release of 3.5, when we were three years into 3.0, the products were plentiful, WotC was seemingly running low on splat book ideas, and even 3PP were stretching how niche they might write material.  Desktop publishing had come far enough by then for nearly anyone with an idea to pen a handful of pages and put the d20 logo on it and the license at the back.  There were also a ton of fan sites and netbooks by then.  There was a lot of very cool innovation but the pie was definitely being cut into smaller and smaller slices.  There  was a mad scramble when 3.5 was announced.  Many threw up their hands, not wanting to have to learn all of the minor (and a few major) changes to the system, come up with new products or convert old ones so they wouldn't see out of date.  But a lot of new folks jumped on board, those who may have previously thought the field was too crowded and now saw some new space.  There was a period when B&M stores were unloading 3.0 products for a song.  I used to make some deals to snap them up and bring them to the EN World Chicago gamedays as prizes.  I think it was a couple/few more years before that really began to happen again, closer to when WotC was slowing down their cycle and it was becoming apparent another new edition might be in the works.  So maybe late 2005, early 2006?</blockquote>

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