Aventhar |
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Discuss!
Link to article added... And there is a survey also regarding what other 3.5 material you want to see made available...
wraithstrike |
I voted. I also told them:
If you do Tome of Battle I would like the errata to be fixed. The errata on your website is actually an entirely different book, and it should also be Tome of Battle errata, and not be the errata of a different book.
Reading it again. I wish I could rewrite it, but I think they got the message, and I was pretty nice about it.
DigitalMage |
Hopefully these will make it over the pond and I can pick up a copy of the core rules including errata.
I didn't indicate I was interested in any of the other books being reprinted as I have all the ones I want (though from the sounds of it ToB could do with an errata updated version perhaps - I have the book but haven't read it yet).
In my comments I did say that the best way to celebrate 3.5 would be to start selling the PDFs again (I also suggested they should do the same with 4e PDFs as I also play that edition).
Aventhar |
Hopefully these will make it over the pond and I can pick up a copy of the core rules including errata.
I didn't indicate I was interested in any of the other books being reprinted as I have all the ones I want (though from the sounds of it ToB could do with an errata updated version perhaps - I have the book but haven't read it yet).
In my comments I did say that the best way to celebrate 3.5 would be to start selling the PDFs again (I also suggested they should do the same with 4e PDFs as I also play that edition).
I also advised that they should start selling PDFs again - of ALL editions. The loss of PDFs is one of the reasons I'm now primarily a Pathfinder player.
My feeling is that these reprints (and the 1e ones as well) are a way for them to continue bringing in cash while 4e winds down and the design team works on 5e. Its actually a prety good plan IF they don't overestimate the demand and print too many...
Matthew Morris RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8 |
ohako |
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Hey, I think they should schnazz up just two splatbooks
a) Player's Handbook II
b) Dragon Magazine Annual Vol. 1
You remember all those year when WotC was putting out 99% fluff books like Faiths of Eberron (the gods don't meddle around/are abstractions/blah blah), or say, books where 80% was fluff, and the other 20% was things like the, oh what was that base class, you know, the 'do everything' one from Dungeonscape? Or all the crunch there was was really testing out ideas for 4E? (You can see 'marking' in the PHBII, and you can see 4E at-wills in Complete Mage's reserve feats)
Anyway, it turns out, 4E! Ta-da!
And right in the middle of that, Dragon 1 comes out, and man was that book awesome. Crazy polearm goofiness, sorcerer bloodlines, the force missile mage, the article about chi-square dice testing, the 'build your own MC Escher labyrinth', the rich panoply of amalgam, washed and rinsed and pressed together to make a book that didn't have a 'purpose' or 'theme', but just was.
Anyway, that book: my fav, written mostly by, guess who: Paizo dudes. Surprise.
Matthew Morris RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8 |
Orthos |
Dragon compendium volume 1, however, fits the bill.
Yep, this is the one with the bloodline feats (Penumbra Bloodline! Had a sorc with that going for Force Missile Mage, was great fun), FMM and the Osteomancer/Bone Mage, cool polearm feats, two awesome fey templates, some cool monsters...
Shame there was never a Vol. 2.
Anyway I'll be voting on my lunch break. Not sure what all I'll be voting for, but I'll be voting.
Matthew Morris RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8 |
thomrenault |
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I told them that they should release a book with a lot of prominent Product Identity updated to Pathfinder Rules. So it would have a chapter of Monsters, and a bunch of sections to make my 3.5 Campaign Settings into Pathfinder settings (I know, I could do all of this myself). And a book with the 'Best of Prestige Classes' also updated to Pathfinder edition. I'm not trying to troll, but seriously other than the Player's Handbook, those would be the only WotC 3.5-ish books I would buy.
cibet44 |
So does this have any effect on 3PP that were forced to stop publishing 3.5 material and pulp remaining stock in order to publish 4E material? I wonder if this reversal of published status of 3.5 can lead to individual or class action lawsuits from 3PP. I'm sure there are a few 3PP that would have loved to continue creating and publishing 3.5 materials if they were allowed to alongside (or in spite of) 4E.
Jeffery Keown 232 |
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The actual reason for this poll is as follows:
Who loved 3.5? The folks who became Pathfinder Players.
How do we win back all those dollars that went to Paizo?
Give them what they loved about 3.5.
If we can learn what they loved, they'll buy it from us instead of Lisa can company.
We'll destroy Paizo by BECOMING PAIZO.
ShinHakkaider |
The actual reason for this poll is as follows:
Who loved 3.5? The folks who became Pathfinder Players.
How do we win back all those dollars that went to Paizo?
Give them what they loved about 3.5.
If we can learn what they loved, they'll buy it from us instead of Lisa can company.
We'll destroy Paizo by BECOMING PAIZO.
I think that the only people who they will "win" are the 3.5 purists. People who cant stand Pathfinder about as much as they cant stand 4E.
But Pathfinder players? I dont think that this re-release is fooling anyone. I still have most of my 3.5 books in great condition and was considering putting them up on Ebay or selling them here. I have most of them in PDF form anyway and the honest truth is that I need to make room for more Pathfinder stuff. That's not even me being a shill> I'm subscribed to both the RPG lines and the AP lines from the beginning and have no intentions of unsubscibing just yet and my Pathfinder shelf has just filled up.
Now I can get rid of all my Champions and GURPS 3rd edition stuff or I can get rid of my 3.5 stuff. Decisions...decisions...
Ambrosia Slaad |
Well the XPH of course (again erratted) and I'd love for the Mind's Eye stuff to be printed (and OGL'd) but I'm dreaming.
Meh. I'd rather they didn't reprint the XPH. 3.5 and Pathfinder aren't that different; maybe with no reprinted XPH, more 3.5 players will finally pick up the Dreamscarred Pathfinder books?
Ambrosia Slaad |
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pres man wrote:Chuck Norris. Your argument is invalid.TriOmegaZero wrote:But I AM the best, ergo, the edition I like best must be the best. ;DCheapy wrote:but but but 2e is the best e!There is no best edition. Only the edition you like best.
Bruce Lee. My argument wears a snazzy yellow jumpsuit and beats up your argument.
Stefan Hill |
It is slightly weird. I would have gone for 2e as PF has the 3.5 market a little sewn-up. Even with errata 3.5e is still PF without the 'fixes' to the d20 system. I would be tempted only for the included errata and then only for playing things like Expedition to Castle Ravenloft and the other 3.5e re-release hardbound 'old school' mega-modules. PF characters tend to be over powered and I'm too lazy to the convert the monsters/encounters for PF rules. Then again with all the PF Bestiaries out may be that isn't so tricky these days?
I still WANT to see a D&D Rules Cyclopedia come out again.
S.