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Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« on: April 25, 2013, 12:56:54 PM »
Find the handbook here.

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2013, 06:23:37 PM »
are the Athas, Planescape, or Spelljammer available in pdfs from the sites?
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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2013, 08:24:48 PM »
are the Athas, Planescape, or Spelljammer available in pdfs from the sites?

yes, yes, no.


but the last has some fan written articles which have been designated 3.x content by the site. some of them are decent. ymmv.

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2013, 12:34:25 AM »
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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2013, 11:02:01 AM »
Thanks!

no problems!


copying that list here for reference:

Rokugan Campaign Setting
Bloodspeakers
Magic of Rokugan
Creatures of Rokugan
Fortunes and Winds
L5R Player's Guide
Lesser of Two Evils
Secrets of the (Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Mantis, Phoenix, Scorpion, Shadowlands, Unicorn)
Way of the (Daimyo, Open Hand, Ratling, Samurai, Shugenja, Thief)
Complete Exotic Arms Guide
Hidden Emperor

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2013, 11:33:23 AM »
Yeah, there were a couple I was surprised about (lesser of 2 evils and l5r campaign setting), because all the others had a certain cover type. Those 2 also shared cover types of a bunch of unlicensed books

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some of them have the WotC logo, others just have it written into the credits page, yeah annoying
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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2013, 11:36:49 AM »
3.0, 3.5? useful spells, feats, powers, equipment, classes, options?

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2013, 11:43:37 AM »
They're all 3.0, some have some really cool spells (magic of R has Transform and 9 9th level maho-like spells for ALL classes), plus feats and skills (mostly knowledge ones) and PrCs. Even a couple base classes

I mainly browsed them for spells for my list.

check my slight edit above too
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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2014, 08:47:46 AM »
I noticed under 3rd ed (3.0) you have "D20 Dice".  Is that an actual book or the dice you roll?  I've not seen it on any other list, and can't find anything with google.

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2014, 06:44:26 PM »
I noticed under 3rd ed (3.0) you have "D20 Dice".  Is that an actual book or the dice you roll?  I've not seen it on any other list, and can't find anything with google.

here's a link for you:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/d20-dice-wizards-of-the-coast/1021031921?ean=9780786920358

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2014, 05:17:51 PM »
The link takes me to a Barnes and Noble page and says "Sorry, we could not find what you are looking for."  No help there.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure it's referring to actual dice and not a book of some type.

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2014, 05:19:33 PM »
The link takes me to a Barnes and Noble page and says "Sorry, we could not find what you are looking for."  No help there.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure it's referring to actual dice and not a book of some type.

The link works for me...

And yeah, WoTC released a set of dice.

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2014, 08:05:23 AM »
And today, it's working for me.

Thanks for the answer.

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2022, 12:54:18 PM »
Been awhile...

Going through pdfs, like Dragonlance's "The Towers of High Sorcery", they have WotC's licensed content seal on the publishing page.

I only saw 2 Dragonlance books on the table. So it seems to be missing a dozen or so
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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2022, 05:38:04 PM »
They have the licensed content seal, they do not have the Wizards of the Coast logo like the Dragonlance Campaign Setting does.  That probably has something to do with it.

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2022, 01:46:11 AM »
Kalamar has the same Licensed logo, and its listed in the handbook
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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2022, 01:24:27 PM »
Well that's the only explanation I thought of, I've never looked at a Kalamar book.

Nijineko will have to explain it for themselves whenever they log back in.

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Re: Handbook of Official D&D Content - Discussion Thread
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2022, 06:13:05 PM »
i hate how i forget things soo much :-(

here's what i just posted (and removed) from the actual handbook....

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necro...

someone i was chatting with pointed out that *some* of the Kalamar stuff in my Spell Compilation wasn't actually licensed. after going through a bunch of the pdfs, about 1/3 lack the "officially licensed" seal in them. some were surprising, like the 3.5 player's guide and 1 of the 2 Friend and Foe series.

here's a list of the pdfs i've looked at, and have no official license seal in them (near the front and/or back)

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also, looking through the Dragonlance books, there's a ton of them with the officially licensed seal.

the Dragonlance Campaign Setting appears to be the only official one, not just licensed.

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edit: looks like the Rokugan books do not have the seal, but do mention that they are published by AEG under WotC license

i was under the impression that some/many of the Rokugan books were officially licensed. but the pdfs don't seem to have anything in them.

here was some info to that effect.

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final question for now

any idea what material was actually included in the license for Birthright and Spelljammer?

Spelljammer.org is a disaster right now
Birthright has a ton of 3e downloads that have been edited well after 4e started, and not sure which version of what is licensed.
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