paizo.com - Dungeons & Dragons: The Dragon Compendium, Volume 1 Hardcover

Cato Novus, Tue, Jan 15, 2008, 07:12 AM

Does anyone know if this compendium's weapon section contains info on gunpowder weapons from Dragon 321?

bubbagump, Tue, Jan 15, 2008, 07:17 AM

I'm afraid it doesn't. It's still worth a look, though. I and my players are having a great time with it, and generally place it right next to the PHB.

VedicDragon (Pathfinder Chronicles Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber), Fri, Mar 28, 2008, 06:46 AM

First off, let me say I absolutely adore this product...

Useful, informative, and as a collector, converting the old 2nd edition and 3.0 resources to 3.5 made this an invaluable resource.

That being said, I have to say the name and advertising for the Dragon Compendium, much like WotC's Spell Compendium before it, is bitterly misleading.

I remember when D&D writers and publishers knew and understood what "Compendium" means. Back in 2nd ed days, when the first spell compendium came out, we didn't sweat too much just because it only had A-D, because we -KNEW- TSR would publish a 2nd, 3rd and 4th. And they did. Exhaustively. They even went back and made sure Priests got their own three volumes.

Dragon Magazine had an archive. And when they said complete-they meant it. Those CD-ROMS are some of the best investments in D&D expenditures I have ever made.

Now to the current product. Much like WotC's Spell Compendium, I see little hope of further volumes actually seeing the light of print.

PLEASE let this not die just because of Wizards (more importantly) Hasbro's inept inability to put customer satisfaction over their greed for profit margin. We have seen them effectively kill Ravenloft with Sword & Sorcery.

Under OGL, I would think it would be a fairly simple matter to go back and revisit your previous publication(s) under intellectual property laws and produce d20 Conversions and "republication".

I mean, is there not a similar logic behind continuing to produce the Pathfinder Setting in 3.5?

I would think the sales have justified a Volume 2 by now...

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Lisa Stevens (CEO), Fri, Mar 28, 2008, 08:43 AM

VedicDragon wrote:

PLEASE let this not die just because of Wizards (more importantly) Hasbro's inept inability to put customer satisfaction over their greed for profit margin. We have seen them effectively kill Ravenloft with Sword & Sorcery.

VedicDragon:

We did, indeed, have plans to produce a whole line of Dragon Compendiums, thus the Volume 1 moniker. Alas, in order to make those Dragon Compendiums, we needed permission from Wizards of the Coast, since our license for Dragon and Dungeon magazines didn't allow us to do any compilations. For reasons never revealed to us, WotC decided to not approve us making more Dragon Compendiums. Now that our license has expired, the only hope for more Compendiums is if WotC decides to do them.

-Lisa

Jagyr Ebonwood, Fri, Mar 28, 2008, 12:14 PM

Lisa Stevens wrote:

For reasons never revealed to us, WotC decided to not approve us making more Dragon Compendiums.

Typical. >:-(