D&D 3.x Third party products I wish were still available for download

[Greg K]

Several third party publishers for D&D 3e removed their products for download on DriveThruRpg after the 3e boom only to have them later released under new publishers. However, a few publishers have removed their products from online stores and they are unavailable for legal download. The following are products I think deserve to be made available for sale once again.

Blackdyrge Templates series and Master at Arms series. Both were by Aeryn Rudel and published under his Blackdirge Publishing. The former was a series of monster templates and included the template and a monster with the template applied while the latter was a series of individual short progression prestige classes and also included an NPC with the Prc. Both lines were moved from DriveThruRp to Steve Jackson's Warehouse 13.
I am not sure why the author took them off DriveThru, but they are now also gone from Warehouse 13 as well.

The City Quarter series (Arcane Quarter, Temple Quarter, Thieves' Quarter) and the other 3e products released by The Game Mechanics (TGM). The Game Mechanics was founded by former WOTC veterans Steven "Stan!" Brown, Rich Redmond, J.D Whitaker. and I believe one other person They released PDFs for 3e and d20 Modern with Green Ronin publishing the print editions. I don't know if the PDFs were available on DriveThruRpg, but they had been available to purchase on Green Ronin's site.
I just found previews of the City Quarter series books on FreeRonin site, but , they and other TGM D&D and d20 Modern pdfs are gone from the Green Ronin store and are aksi not included in Green Ronin's 3e era bundle sold on DrivethruRPG and the Green Ronin site.

edit: Redhurst Academy of Magic by Human Head Studios. This was a setting for D&D 3e where the player characters were students at a teleporting magical school. Not only did it include details on the school and staff, new prestige classes, new spells, and monster, it also included guidelines for using it with the following settings:

• Atlas Games' Nyambe and Seven Cities
• Fast Forward's Dungeon World
• Green Ronin's Freeport
• Kenzer & Company's Kingdoms of Kalamar
• Paradigm Concept's Codex Arcanis
• Sword & Sorcery Studios' Scarred Lands
• Sovereign Press's Sovereign Stone

 

[Stormonu]

I was just glancing through my collection to see what publishers/publications vanished from my collection:

Chainmail Bikini Games
Beyond Monks
Call of Duty (Paladins)

Athenaeum Arcane
A Score of Malevolent Special Abilities
Cursed Items
Esoteric Libraries
Festivals, Fairs and Holy Days
Ghostly Rumors
Letters
Magic Items of the Senses
Spells of the Vampire
Treasure Chests
Valuable Paintings

There's probably more, but I've got too much to dig through, and some of them are of ...meh... quality anyways. Others I'm not sure if I got off DriveThru or directly from the publisher's website (such as my Freeport PDFs).

I think many of the ones that did disappear were due to horrible 4E GSL that required all prior edition items be taken down to produce stuff for 4E. Thankfully, companies like Goodman Games made their stuff available again, though it's now on their website instead of Drivethru RPG. (But for me that means I've lost access to the versions I bought off DriveThru, so I can't redownload them).

 

[Alzrius]

Several third party publishers for D&D 3e removed their products for download on DriveThruRpg after the 3e boom only to have them later released under new publishers. However, a few publishers have removed their products from online stores and they are unavailable for legal download. The following are products I think deserve to be made available for sale once again.

I know that some Ronin Arts products are available for sale at places like Paizo.com (though since they revamped their website I've been having a hard trouble finding them), but I think that a lot of their old products are simply gone forever now.

Also, Greywood Publishing was putting out d20 conversions of several Fighting Fantasy products, and I quite enjoyed them.

EDIT: I'll just say that I'm happy to have grabbed every 3E product that Blackdirge put out back when they could still be purchased. There's so much good stuff there, and most of them being completely unavailable now is a tragedy.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Several third party publishers for D&D 3e removed their products for download on DriveThruRpg after the 3e boom only to have them later released under new publishers. However, a few publishers have removed their products from online stores and they are unavailable for legal download. The following are products I think deserve to be made available for sale once again.

Blackdyrge Templates series and Master at Arms series. Both were by Aeryn Rudel and published under his Blackdirge Publishing. The former was a series of monster templates and included the template and a monster with the template applied while the latter was a series of individual short progression prestige classes and also included an NPC with the Prc. Both lines were moved from DriveThruRp to Steve Jackson's Warehouse 13.
I am not sure why the author took them off DriveThru, but they are now also gone from Warehouse 13 as well.

The City Quarter series (Arcane Quarter, Temple Quarter, Thieves' Quarter) and the other 3e products released by The Game Mechanics (TGM). The Game Mechanics was founded by former WOTC veterans Steven "Stan!" Brown, Rich Redmond, J.D Whitaker. and I believe one other person They released PDFs for 3e and d20 Modern with Green Ronin publishing the print editions. I don't know if the PDFs were available on DriveThruRpg, but they had been available to purchase on Green Ronin's site.
I just found previews of the City Quarter series books on FreeRonin site, but , they and other TGM D&D and d20 Modern pdfs are gone from the Green Ronin store and are aksi not included in Green Ronin's 3e era bundle sold on DrivethruRPG and the Green Ronin site.

edit: Redhurst Academy of Magic by Human Head Studios. This was a setting for D&D 3e where the player characters were students at a teleporting magical school. Not only did it include details on the school and staff, new prestige classes, new spells, and monster, it also included guidelines for using it with the following settings:

• Atlas Games' Nyambe and Seven Cities
• Fast Forward's Dungeon World
• Green Ronin's Freeport
• Kenzer & Company's Kingdoms of Kalamar
• Paradigm Concept's Codex Arcanis
• Sword & Sorcery Studios' Scarred Lands
• Sovereign Press's Sovereign Stone

Yes to multiple of the above. Maybe some of these have rights issues on art or whatever, but in other cases, I can't figure out why they've vanished. Very ffrustrating.

 

[Belen]

I was just glancing through my collection to see what publishers/publications vanished from my collection:

Chainmail Bikini Games
Beyond Monks
Call of Duty (Paladins)

Athenaeum Arcane
A Score of Malevolent Special Abilities
Cursed Items
Esoteric Libraries
Festivals, Fairs and Holy Days
Ghostly Rumors
Letters
Magic Items of the Senses
Spells of the Vampire
Treasure Chests
Valuable Paintings

There's probably more, but I've got too much to dig through, and some of them are of ...meh... quality anyways. Others I'm not sure if I got off DriveThru or directly from the publisher's website (such as my Freeport PDFs).

I think many of the ones that did disappear were due to horrible 4E GSL that required all prior edition items be taken down to produce stuff for 4E. Thankfully, companies like Goodman Games made their stuff available again, though it's now on their website instead of Drivethru RPG. (But for me that means I've lost access to the versions I bought off DriveThru, so I can't redownload them).

Drivethrurpg has never removed my purchased content.

 

[mwjen]

Drivethrurpg often doesn't remove your ability to down load PDF's even when they stop offering the PDF for sell. I have several items I bought back in the 2000's that have been removed from the store but I can download from my library any time I like. Example Ed Greenwood's Castlemourn Campaign Setting is no longer for sale but I downloaded a copy from Drivethrurpg yesterday.

 

[Greg K]

EDIT: I'll just say that I'm happy to have grabbed every 3E product that Blackdirge put out back when they could still be purchased. There's so much good stuff there, and most of them being completely unavailable now is a tragedy.

The stuff I have is really good. I am missing three of the Blackdyrge monster templates and the entire Man at Arms line. I, unfortunately, had held on buying them and other 3e products including the others I mentioned, because I had began running a multi-year Mutants and Masterminds campaign along with some Savage Worlds .

 

[darjr]

Nope, not posting my list here. Not yet.

This is a great thread but if I post my list someone will point out many of them being still available and I’ll go broke.

Back to edit and add I’ll post one.
Reach of the Roach God.

 

[Greg K]

Nope, not posting my list here. Not yet.
This is a great thread but if I post my list someone will point out many of them being still available and I’ll go broke.

I share your concern with DriveThruRpg's Christmas in July only a week or two away. I have a few RPGs and a lot of supplements on my to buy list.

 

[Dire Bare]

Media is ephemeral . . . sadly. Books, movies, video games . . . it all disappears for various reasons.

But I feel you, it would be nice if publishers would work harder to keep classic titles available.

For me, the DragonStar line from Fantasy Flight Games comes to mind. DragonStar was a D&D-in-space setting with strong Star Wars vibes, that used the D&D 3E rules. I freakin' loved the setting! Some of the books actually are still available under the Edge Studios imprint, but not the entire, original line. I want a complete collection of the DragonStar books, and I doubt I'll ever get it.

I am holding out hope that DragonStar gets a revamp from Edge Studios like the Midnight setting did.