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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rijeagle" data-source="post: 859602" data-attributes="member: 9835">Actually, you're quite safe in buying all the books you want right now.  The new 3.5 books are only goingto be the DMG, PHB, and the MM.  These three books will give you everything you need to adjust your current campaign/books to up to 3.5.In the case of the MM2 and the DR, it is really no big deal there.  Wizards will be posting the changes you will need for that, and its a simple matter of writing it on the page with each monster that is affected.  The changes to the DR are simple number changes, that's it, no rule changes.Arms and Equipment is technically outside of the rule changes being done, so it is quite fine.Fiend Folio and Savage Species are already been printed as a quasi-3.5 edition, so they're fine.In my opinion Psionics still don't work right, but that is neither here nor there, but it is still fine as the rules for Psionics are not being severely, if at all, affected.As for buying books that will be obsolete, that is simply untrue.  The three core books are what the D&D game is based upon, and everything else is an add on.  You can easily, and I mean EASILY adapt those supplemental books, as long as you base those rules upon the 3.5 rules.  Wizards has no plans of putting out 3.5 FF, A&E, MM2, Psionics, etc., etc., anytime soon, so don't get all worried about blowing tons of money.Of course, if one is so worried about it, no one said, you MUST buy the new books, and any and all supplemental books coming out in the future will still work with BOTH 3.0 and 3.5.  It's not a big deal really.  Look at it this way, no one put up a stink like this when Microsoft put out IE2, IE3, IE4, IE5, IE6...  All are the same just better version of the previous.  This is the same case.  Items of contention were burying Wizards' mailbox, and they decided to listen to us and correct those problems, WITHOUT making D&D 4.0, thus 3.5.  Wizards DID NOT want to FORCE us to buy 20 new hardcover books, so they sat down and figured out the best and cheapest way to do it, and the 3 core books were the answer.Both versions will work, and easily converted one way or the other.  It is simply a matter of you taking the time(a little) to do it. I'll be the first to admit, I too was a bit chagrined to hear 3.5 was coming out and thoughts of my wallet getting thin really quick passed through my mind, and I attacked the whole idea.  But, after reading Dragon Magazine, and the Wizards' update pages, I soon came to realize that these guys are doing what most businesses would almost never, ever do - minimizing output to save consumers' money.Yes, 5 years down the road, the supplemental books will most likely be redone, and you may want to buy them, but by then, you would have the conversion down pat, so why bother?</blockquote>

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