Benji
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Preferred Game Systems: Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, V20, D&D 3.5, Castles & Crusades, Monsters & Other Childish Things, Little Fears, TFOS
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Favorite Species of Monkey: Cebuella pygmaea
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Post by Benji on Jun 25, 2012 11:47:08 GMT -8
I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind this (other than more money) but it makes for interesting news. The main three rulebooks (Player's Handbook, GM Guide & Monster Manual) for the 3.5 edition of D&D) are getting a reprint this September. www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4news%2F20120625
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Post by Stu Venable on Jun 25, 2012 12:06:51 GMT -8
Maybe it's the beginning of the realization that abandoning support for previous editions to ensure adoption of the current edition may not be a sound strategy.
There are a lot of people paying 3.5 (or something remarkably similar to it...), I wonder if we'll start seeing new content that supports 3.5...
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Benji
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Posts: 176
Preferred Game Systems: Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, V20, D&D 3.5, Castles & Crusades, Monsters & Other Childish Things, Little Fears, TFOS
Currently Playing: Not a damn thing
Currently Running: Pathfinder, Savage Worlds
Favorite Species of Monkey: Cebuella pygmaea
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Post by Benji on Jun 25, 2012 12:30:26 GMT -8
There are a lot of people paying 3.5 (or something remarkably similar to it...), I wonder if we'll start seeing new content that supports 3.5... True, I'm one of those folks still sipping the 3.5 kool-aid. I'm currently gearing up for runnning a semi-regular campaign spanning from 1-15 level using the original 3.5 rules. This is in addition to a Pathfinder campaign I'm contemplating throwing together in October. However, I'm not so sure we'll see a lot of renewed third party support for 3.5. Many established third party publishers have already moved on to supporting Pathfinder or, like Goodman Games, have created their own system (after briefly suporting 4.0). It seems that even the companies that released d20 versions of their existing IP during the OGL boom (Chaosism's CoC, Pinnacle's Deadlands & AEG's Legend of the 5 Rings & 7th Sea) have migrated back to their own gaming engines.
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Post by greatwyrm on Jun 25, 2012 14:15:37 GMT -8
I was going to whip up some rant about printing physical books vs. releasing pdf that are already done. I just don't have the energy right now. Let's just stipulate I started strong, started to ramble, and then ended with an incomplete sentence that would be easy to misinterpret.
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Post by rickno7 on Jun 25, 2012 19:33:11 GMT -8
Before the 5th Edition announcement, I had thought that WOTC's best strategy would be to support 3.X as "Dungeons and Dragons" maybe with a 3.75 and then rename 4th to "Dungeons and Dragons Tactics". Support them fully separate. They've tried for years to add back in Chainmail, or collectible dice, and here they had a true chance to have two RPG lines that had sizable markets.
I guess this makes sense though after the 1st Edition reprints. The 1st Edition reprints weren't only to honor Gygax, but also chase after the old school D&D craze. Printing 3.5 goes after that "craze" too. I guess there's no 2nd Edition craze to speak of... which is a shame because 2nd Edition had the BEST fluff and video games.
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Post by kroh on Jun 25, 2012 19:50:07 GMT -8
And here i thought that the reprint was called Pathfinder. My bad.
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Post by muntjack on Jun 26, 2012 5:53:26 GMT -8
I doubt we'll see a resurgence of support for the old D&D 3.5. Pathfinder took over that niche, and I honestly don't see how reprinting the books is truly going to help them out. I have the 3.0 books, and I assume that many people that once played 3.5/3.0 still have them as well. The nice thing with Pathfinder is that my old 3.0/3.5 stuff isn't necessarily obsolete. I have a LOT of extra books and information that I simply just make a few changes and fit it into my Pathfinder scenarios. I don't need to re-buy from the greedy WotC.
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Post by malifer on Jun 26, 2012 19:41:35 GMT -8
I wonder if we'll start seeing new content that supports 3.5... I would laugh my ass off if that happens.
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Post by Drake on Jun 27, 2012 10:46:39 GMT -8
I wonder if we'll start seeing new content that supports 3.5... I would laugh my ass off if that happens. I'd laugh my ass off as well. Then I'd cry. Then die a little inside. Then I'd probably get a soda.
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lordvanduu
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Post by lordvanduu on Sept 28, 2012 5:00:58 GMT -8
This actually excites me a little bit. I haven't played tabletop RPGs in about 7-8 years, and when I did it was 3.5. I just found out that someone in my new office plays DnD 3.5 and I'm hoping I can join his group. Since I sold all of my old DnD books to my brother a few years ago, this would be a great way to a new copy of the 3.5 PHB that has all of the errata already in it. I hope that it does help bring renewed interest in 3.5, and new material too.
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Post by inflatus on Sept 28, 2012 5:45:21 GMT -8
I saw the core rule books in the Barnes and Noble here in Long Beach last week. I'll have to take a look and see if it is the reprint. It did look out of place in all the 4th Ed stuff.
I think Mike Mearls said that WoTC was going to release a lot of old material. "We have a plan." That was during one of the GenCon panel videos they released.
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Sept 28, 2012 6:20:11 GMT -8
I think their "plan" may be to re-ignite the edition wars.
I am with rickno7 on this. WotC has 3 different games out at the moment all under the same name. That is bad marketing practice. They should call them different things. It would not hurt WotC to drop the brand extension strategy for Dungeons and Dragons. They should call one D&D and rebrand the other two. (Rebranding 3.5 away from D&D to "Pathfinder" did not hurt Paizo.) Strengthening the D&D brand is the vision needed if those kids could see past their fear.
Just another case of the cream rising.
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Post by Kainguru on Sept 28, 2012 9:34:50 GMT -8
All I know is that I'm going to pissed off with WoTC again. First I buy D&D 3.0 and when I finally complete the core rules collection of books they go and release 3.5 and I remember shout "oh come on guys give my wallet a fucking break". Then I go and repurchase AD&D 1e because I thought it was for a good cause plus I finally sprung for hard bound Pathfinder . . . Then they go and do it again and re-release D&D 3.5 and again I shout "ah fuck you guys give my wallet a chance will you!!!". It's good news but still very very annoying
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Post by rickno7 on Sept 28, 2012 12:55:38 GMT -8
All I know is that I'm going to pissed off with WoTC again. First I buy D&D 3.0 and when I finally complete the core rules collection of books they go and release 3.5 and I remember shout "oh come on guys give my wallet a fucking break". Then I go and repurchase AD&D 1e because I thought it was for a good cause plus I finally sprung for hard bound Pathfinder . . . Then they go and do it again and re-release D&D 3.5 and again I shout "ah fuck you guys give my wallet a chance will you!!!". It's good news but still very very annoying If WOTC cared about any wallet but their own, they would not have those years that had 5 Magic: The Gathering expansions in one year(also they'd probably still have me and my gaming group as a customer)
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Post by Kainguru on Sept 28, 2012 13:35:44 GMT -8
All I know is that I'm going to pissed off with WoTC again. First I buy D&D 3.0 and when I finally complete the core rules collection of books they go and release 3.5 and I remember shout "oh come on guys give my wallet a fucking break". Then I go and repurchase AD&D 1e because I thought it was for a good cause plus I finally sprung for hard bound Pathfinder . . . Then they go and do it again and re-release D&D 3.5 and again I shout "ah fuck you guys give my wallet a chance will you!!!". It's good news but still very very annoying If WOTC cared about any wallet but their own, they would not have those years that had 5 Magic: The Gathering expansions in one year(also they'd probably still have me and my gaming group as a customer) Yeah . . . fuck WoTC in it's overbloated pimpled arse. Purely out of spite I think I'll check the second hand section of Amazon and E-Bay and get the old Tomes that way . . .
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