Which of the Core 3 do you own? (3e or 3.5)

[Theo R Cwithin]

All 3.5e core books. For some reason, I got rid of the 3e ones long ago.

Also, while I technically own my 3.5e manuals, I'm not entirely sure where they are: either packed away or lent to former players-in-arms. (And they say possession is 9/10 of the law. *sigh* ).

Nowadays, I almost exclusively use d20srd.org, along with the compilations at crystalkeep and a handful of random 3pp pdfs for my few non-core needs.

(fyi, the forwarding thing happened to me too.)

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Corebooks owned:

4e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual
3.5e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual
3e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual
2e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monstrous Manual, Monstrous Compendium vol. I and II
1e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual (Revised Covers)
BECMI: Basic Set (Holmes, both red box versions, gave the brown box away as a present), Expert Set (both blue boxes), Companion Set, Master Set, Immortals' Rules, Cyclopedia, Wrath of the Immortals
OD&D: Men & Magic, Monsters & Treasure, Underworld & Wilderness Adventures

 

[Hussar]

It did the forward thing to me too. No idea why. Bizarre

Looks like the numbers are pretty balanced. Wonder if it's a universal thing or just an En World thing where so many of us are GM's.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

I still use the 3.0 DMG in 3.5 games because of the optional rules that didn't make it. Its strange how a book with lower page count had more content in it.

 

[Plane Sailing]

BTW, voting on this poll forwarded me to the 3e rules forum thread "FLURRY OF BLOWS," and apparently it did the same for others. I have no idea why that happened.

I own the 3.5 set. I gave the original 3.0 books to my friend when I got the 3.5 books.

I've closed the poll for the moment while we figure this out, sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers

 

[Voadam]

Corebooks owned:

4e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual
3.5e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual
3e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual
2e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monstrous Manual, Monstrous Compendium vol. I and II
1e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual (Revised Covers)
BECMI: Basic Set (Holmes, both red box versions, gave the brown box away as a present), Expert Set (both blue boxes), Companion Set, Master Set, Immortals' Rules, Cyclopedia, Wrath of the Immortals
OD&D: Men & Magic, Monsters & Treasure, Underworld & Wilderness Adventures

4e: DMG (but eyeing that holiday special on PH and PHII)
3.5: None (PHII, MMIV, UA)
3e: DMG, MM (used to own PH but lost at a game weekend), (MMII, FF)
2d: PH & Core Rules CD (with PH, DMG, MM), PO S&M, PO (whatever the character one is called), and DO HLC,
1e: PH, DMG, MM, MMII, FF, UA,
BECMI: Holmes Basic, Moldvay Basic, Moldvay Expert, Mentzer Companion, Mentzer Master, pdf of Rules Cyclopedia
Hackmaster: Hacklopedia Volumes 1-3

 

[Achan hiArusa]

4e: DMG (but eyeing that holiday special on PH and PHII)
3.5: None (PHII, MMIV, UA)
3e: DMG, MM (used to own PH but lost at a game weekend), (MMII, FF)
2d: PH & Core Rules CD (with PH, DMG, MM), PO S&M, PO (whatever the character one is called), and DO HLC,
1e: PH, DMG, MM, MMII, FF, UA,
BECMI: Holmes Basic, Moldvay Basic, Moldvay Expert, Mentzer Companion, Mentzer Master, pdf of Rules Cyclopedia
Hackmaster: Hacklopedia Volumes 1-3

I didn't say that was everything I own Xp. I have every 3.0e, 2e, and 1e hardback, I kinda got tired of collecting D&D by the time 3.5 rolled along, but got the 4e corebooks for completeness sake.

 

[Jhaelen]

I own the 3.0 PHB and DMG and the 3.5 MM. I never bothered getting the 3.5 versions for the other books even though we only ever played 3.5. Having the old version and the SRD seems to be sufficent to me.

 

[Orius]

Just the three 3.0 books, the first printing that was released in 2000. I never bothered to upgrade to 3.5.

 

[Arkhandus]

I own all three original 3.0 Core Rulebooks, from 2000. I was pretty pleased with them in the first place and saw no reason to bother wasting extra money on 3.5's core rulebooks, especially with the mixed bag that those revised rules were.

I bought most official 3.0 books, a few third-party books, two 3.5 supplements (Tome of Battle and Player's Handbook II), and some third-party PDF products in more recent months (I much prefer hardcopy, and electronic reading material is much more bothersome to deal with and less convenient). There are a few 3.5 books I've considered buying, but haven't bothered with, largely because I don't like 3.5's design decisions compared to 3.0's and the frequent lack of real fixes involved in 3.5 (they largely just broke druids and clerics further, and other spellcasters to a slightly lesser degree, and made other core classes literally outclassed by newer, better classes).

I use the SRD for 3.5 when I'm running or playing it, though I vastly prefer to run and play 3.0 (just can't seem to find enough other folks with 3.0 books or, more importantly, running 3.0 campaigns, besides myself).