D&D 5E What previous edition books would you like to see re-done?

[DammitVictor]

Also, I am not in favor of endless splat books. If they come out with a "Complete Fighter" book, I hope it is COMPLETE and isn't followed the next year with "Complete Fighter II" and then "The More Complete Fighter" and "The Ultimate Really We Mean It This Time Complete Fighter."

Capcom of the Coast?

 

[diaglo]

thalmin reminded me to ask for large scale warfare.

Chainmail by Gygax and Perren (1971)

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting has been my favorite of the main setting books. If they can find some way to combine the flavor of the grey box and the production of the 3E book, it could be something special.

As an aside, I like Weapons of Legacy but I don't see why it needs an entire book. It seems like it would do well tucked into the DMG or an Unearthed Arcana.

Speaking of which, Unearthed Arcana, but I'd like to see it as a kind of "options gone wild" book - a kind of combination of the PHB and DMG, but an emphasis on "fringe" options.

What you describe of a new FRCS is exactly the sort of thing I'd want. The flavour of the 2E FR products, combined with the 3E production. I did like the format of the 3E FRCS as well.

Weapons of Legacy had a heap of cool weapon and magic item histories that made life easier for a DM. Even if I hate the system in the book, that fluff is still really good and completely usable. Between the fluff for created items and explaining rules of how to create an item yourself I think you could easily fill out a book.

I'd be keep to see an Unearthed Arcana again. That's one of my favourite 3.xE books. However, from what I have heard about the 5E DMG, it sounds like that may cover some of the territory Unearthered Arcana previously did.

The Encyclopedia Magica like in 2nd ed.

I love my Encyclopedia Magic set. However, many of the items in it were really unbalanced and sometimes the cost varied significantly for items that did basically the same thing but were published in different books (or in Dragon Magazine). I'd personally be happy with something similar to the 3E Magic Item Compendium. That book has a lot of fun magic items. Something like that, but even bigger, for 5E would be awesome.

Does wanting Dungeon magazine back count? Honestly, that's my one big wish, the rest I can bash together on my own.

I'd love to see Dungeon Magazine come back. I'd even accept just a digital version of it, so long as it was compiled into montly PDFs.

Alot of great suggestions but a few dozen people requesting new versions of old material might not be enough to convince WoTC to reprint stuff. Especially if the average DM is cheap and thinks outside of the proverbial box IE by just converting old material to his 5E campaign which is not too hard to do.

As for the OP request as to what I want to see reprinted, nothing really, I would prefer WoTC concentrated on new quality products instead.

I wasn't thinking of WotC re-printing products they've done before. I was thinking more along the lines of what books it would be cool for them to have another go at. In some cases, such as the Weapons of Legacy book, I'd want them to chuck out most of the stuff they did previously, but keep the core concept (weapons that get more powerful as your character does) and start from scratch.

In other cases, such as the World Builder's Guidebook, most of what they did was pretty awesome. However, it was made over 20 years ago, so it could do with some updating and expanding.

 

[Joe Liker]

I have to disagree here. Some of us aren't particularly good at conversions. Many home conversions/home brew rules that I've seen from people are either ridiculously overpowered or lackluster, at best. I'd rather the version I'm playing have updated materials.

Then how about just a conversion guide for the crunch? They could probably fit all of the crunch for all of the worlds into one book and save themselves the trouble of repeating all the fluff ... yet again.

 

[Kristivas]

Then how about just a conversion guide for the crunch? They could probably fit all of the crunch for all of the worlds into one book and save themselves the trouble of repeating all the fluff ... yet again.

Maybe, but that could create it's own problems.

I don't have the 2e boxed set anymore, and haven't for probably 10+ years now. I do have the 3e Forgotten Realms book. I never bought the 4e. You see where this is going?

The Forgotten Realms storyline has drastically changed. For example, Anauroch Desert. It was a Desert with nomads and such in 2e and most of 3-3.5 and then at the end of 3.5 and during 4e, it was Netheril. Now, it's no longer Netheril, but Anauroch again? All of the fluff has changed, and while you could just go from past versions of the Realms.. (I imagine there's a lot of shouting down of the Spellplague and onward eras), it would just be easier to make a 5e book, and add in a conversion supplement for those who hate certain eras and refuse to recognize them.

I'm all for conversion guides for past products, but I think, personally, that I'd just rather buy the 5e book over the conversion guide + whatever books I'd need to convert from.

 

[Lidgar]

1. Book of Lairs
2. Spelljammer
3. Castle Gygax (OK, technically never done completely...) AND/OR Maure Castle

 

[brehobit]

I'd like to see many of the old 1e modules reprinted for 5e.

 

[Jester David]

Manual of the Planes
Psionic Handbook
Deities & Demigods

Maybe a few monster lore books. Libris Mortis. Draconomicon. Manual Anthems.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I'm wary of more splatbooks that are optional but seem to become mandatory with later published materials.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I'm wary of more splatbooks that are optional but seem to become mandatory with later published materials.

Was this a 2E or 4E thing, because I never really felt this way about 3.5E books.