3.5 Core Rulebooks will be reprinted!

[awaken_D_M_golem]

By which you mean "don't most of WotC's customers have the ability to download illicit copies?", I guess? (If you're referring to the SRD, though, it's deliberately not quite complete.)

Me, I'd be happy to get another crack at picking up 3.5 books from the publisher.

Sorry, but demanding I buy three books for one game again is a little much for me. Specially since this is the fourth time they have tried it (3.0, 3.5, collectors 3.5, reprinted 3.5).

Now maybe if I were one of the people publishing it... At least then it would be great.

I feel you. Personally however, I think a reprint is a great idea; over the years, some of us lost books to a variety of circumstances - fire, theft, moving, the vagaries of spacetime - and would like to replace them. Or replace worn-out copies, or maybe get them for the first time. I know plenty of people who are new to D&D since 3.5 went out of print, and have found it difficult or impossible to find books of their own.

YMMV, but having the option to buy them again will be nice.

Tuggy - no I wasn't advocating bad behavior.
The various SRDs out there work fine, and
some of them have the full errata.


But yeah, some people still prefer book over web.
And clearly there is a demand for 3e/3.5e out-of-print.
Maybe I shoulda started there.  There is a market for it.

[oslecamo]

Tuggy - no I wasn't advocating bad behavior.
The various SRDs out there work fine, and
some of them have the full errata.

The books still have info that isn't in the srd. In particular a lot of DM stuff like exp tables and city generation rules. The PHB itself has stuff like age/height/weight generation and several other details.

[linklord231]

I don't personally own many of the 3.5 books, and the ones I do own are kept in our group's collective gaming bookshelf at the DM's house.  So I will most definitely be purchasing some of the reprinted books, provided they cost less than an arm and a leg. 

I voted based on how easily I can find the books at my local gaming shop.  For example, every single gaming store near me has a copy of the Rules Compendium, Races of the Wild, and Expanded Psionics.  So I didn't vote for those ones.  But I've never even seen a physical copy of  ToB, Spell Compendium, or MIC, so I voted for all of those.  And left a note saying "please for the love of God print ToB!" or something to that effect.

[Mister Lamp]

I think this is a good idea. My PHB and DMG came from a used book seller, and are in really bad condition. Heck, I don't even have the 3.5 MMI, just the 3.0 one.

I voted for books I liked, and ones I wanted to see updated.

[caelic]

But yeah, some people still prefer book over web.
And clearly there is a demand for 3e/3.5e out-of-print.
Maybe I shoulda started there.  There is a market for it.

Exactly.  And right now, precisely zero percent of that market share is finding its way into WotC's coffers.  3.5 is making money for third-party dealers, and for Paizo.

However, the move also smacks of desperation to me.  It seems like they're throwing everything they can at getting D&D's profit margins up. 

[Garryl]

I wonder if they're using the reprinted book pool as implicit feedback on what the players enjoy (and thus the kind of things to include in 5E).

[radionausea]

Given the language of the survey I'd say that's exactly what they're doing. "A product celebrating the best of 3.5"

[ksbsnowowl]

Some of my players will like this; makes book-obtaining easier.

This almost makes me want to write a few adventures and publish them under the OGL...

[awaken_D_M_golem]

The books still have info that isn't in the srd. In particular a lot of DM stuff like exp tables and city generation rules. The PHB itself has stuff like age/height/weight generation and several other details.

  ... y'know ... they could put out a little booklet with those things only.
Mix in a few new-ish tables, some art, one or two missing goodies, etc ...

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Exactly.  And right now, precisely zero percent of that market share is finding its way into WotC's coffers.  3.5 is making money for third-party dealers, and for Paizo.

However, the move also smacks of desperation to me.  It seems like they're throwing everything they can at getting D&D's profit margins up.

+1

[lordstimpy]

As a relative new comer to DnD 3.5, I was lucky and my brother gave me a PhB and DMG, but he didn't have a Monster Manual.  It would be nice to get one of those.  Also I want to get my mom a PhB as I'm starting to get her involved with DnD.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

As a relative new comer to DnD 3.5, I was lucky and my brother gave me a PhB and DMG, but he didn't have a Monster Manual.  It would be nice to get one of those.

d20srd has almost all of it. 

Also I want to get my mom a PhB as I'm starting to get her involved with DnD.

Y'know ... there's some guys on this board who already luv yer mom.
 

[Tshern]

I feel you. Personally however, I think a reprint is a great idea; over the years, some of us lost books to a variety of circumstances - fire, theft, moving, the vagaries of spacetime - and would like to replace them. Or replace worn-out copies, or maybe get them for the first time. I know plenty of people who are new to D&D since 3.5 went out of print, and have found it difficult or impossible to find books of their own.

YMMV, but having the option to buy them again will be nice.

My usual group has always had but a single copy of the PHB. Curiously pretty much every time a different guy brought the book to the sessions and eventually that PHB became a running joke and it must've been "stolen" around a hundred times now.

[NiteCyper]

The books still have info that isn't in the srd. In particular a lot of DM stuff like exp tables and city generation rules. The PHB itself has stuff like age/height/weight generation and several other details.

You mean these age and height and weight infos?

[lordstimpy]

As a relative new comer to DnD 3.5, I was lucky and my brother gave me a PhB and DMG, but he didn't have a Monster Manual.  It would be nice to get one of those.

d20srd has almost all of it. 

Also I want to get my mom a PhB as I'm starting to get her involved with DnD.

Y'know ... there's some guys on this board who already luv yer mom.
 

My mom has my PhB currently, told her to read it, not sure she has.  And as for d20srd, yeah it has it, but I like having books.  While if one looks good enough they can find pdfs of all the books, I like having the books themselves.

[NiteCyper]

My mom has my PhB currently, told her to read it, not sure she has.

I think that it's best to use it as reference first until the player is interested enough to be intrinsically motivated to read it.
"But gameplay is stopped to flip through the book." True, but it's easier to get a player to do it then than in their own free time, and it happens anyway.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

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  ... uh-oh ... now I'm looking at NiteCyper's avatar.



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Soooo anyway --- maybe we all have to do a Core Rehash 

[ksbsnowowl]

Soooo anyway --- maybe we all have to do a Core Rehash 

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Soooo anyway --- maybe we all have to do a Core Rehash 

The 3.0e C.O. board was rather sedate,
excepting the FrankT/K crew, of course.
The very early 3.5e C.O. board was
about the same.  Remember how iffy
people were about BoED and BoVD ?!
Then the power creep splat-o-rama
happened, before 3.5 Core got fully
hashed out.  The glory days (daze)
of old C.O. was like 2005 and on.
Even then splats were where it's at.

I mean deathwishjoe found the Charm
Person + Hypnosis combo in mid '07,
and nobody did anything with it ... 
And Solo posted just a month ago,
a Barbarian refluff for Monks.
etc ...

[ariasderros]

What I'd really like so see done would be a re-do of ToM.

Seriously, Binders need buffed, Shadowcasters need more abilities, and Truenaming mechanics need both fixed and finished.

Too bad its just a vote for what is currently "best". And ToM most certainly isn't as it is. It doesn't need re-printed, it needs re-done.