What's happening with 3e?? Open Design, Necromancer Games, Sinister Adventures, Monte

[Aberzanzorax]

I'm wondering what the state of things is for 3e producers currently.


I've observed:

Open Design (usually good for a 3e project) producing three projects currently (one for 4e, one for pathfinder, one for Cthulhu)

Necromancer Games releasing some products they'd held off on as PDFs on DriveThruRPG, with the POD's coming "Shortly" but with little word since the original release.

Sinster Adventures STILL dragging its feet on Razor Coast (Due out June 2008).

Monte Cook's Dungeon a day???? (I have no idea, but it had/has promise).



What is being produced currently? Is there anything, or have 4e and pathfinder fully subsumed all production for third ediion?


With hopes that there are products still being produced,
-Aberzanzorax

 

[Mark Chance]

Spes Magna Games is both new and certainly not a big kid in the sandbox, but we have two products (Rewarding Roleplaying and Fencing & Firearms) usable with both 3.5 and Pathfinder. Come to think of it, both could be used with 3.0 as well, especially Rewarding Roleplaying.

 

[Vascant]

Monte Cook's Dungeon a day

-Aberzanzorax

As a customer, this is incredible and in some odd way fills my old need for Dungeon and Dragon magazine. I do not play the material as it is given but rather take ideas and material then change it to fit my world or use it as base for a larger idea.

All I can say is love it!

 

[Desdichado]

Well, Pathfinder, obviously. Even if that maybe sounds a little flippant. As long as you understand CMD/CMB, you can use anything from Pathfinder in a 3e game as is, I think. It's no more different from 3.5 than 3.5 was from 3e, and those have a high degree of backwards compatibility too.

 

[jaerdaph]

Well, Pathfinder, obviously. Even if that maybe sounds a little flippant. As long as you understand CMD/CMB, you can use anything from Pathfinder in a 3e game as is, I think. It's no more different from 3.5 than 3.5 was from 3e, and those have a high degree of backwards compatibility too.

I think you hit the nail on the head. And I agree - Pathfinder is essentially the new 3.5e now, in a "...is the new black" kind of way.

 

[Mercurius]

My guess is that 3.5 support dwindles away and survives almost entirely in Pathfinder, with only a few exceptions.

Actually, it isn't really a guess as it has been happening for sometime already.

 

[DaveMage]

The only 3.x products I'm still looking forward to are the adventures from Necromancer Games. Otherwise, I'm ready to close the book on it and embrace Pathfinder. (Well, actually, I'll probably combine Pathfinder, straight 3.5 and elements of Trailblazer.)

However, I'll continue to buy Necro products if they make more for 3.5. (Such as Tsar 2 & 3.)

 

[Monkey King]

I got to play in Tsar as run by the author at PaizoCon, and yeah... More, please.

 

[pawsplay]

I like 3.5, but I have trouble coming up with a good reason to make anything for 3.5 instead of Pathfinder.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

Great answers all, and thank you!

It seems that production for 3e has, by and large, and with a very few exceptions, fully transitioned over to pathfinder.