The several areas areas I'm maintaining are outlined as follows.Firstly the Metacompendium's 3e fixes:
- Fluff & Optimization Background
- RAW Reminders
- RAW Variants
- Dirty Trick Fixes
- Campaign-based
The first batch aren't really fixes so they are the 0th category. The Campaign based grouping is group 1, followed by 2, 3, and 4. They get more in-depth and important from a balance point of view as you go along. It should be no surprise that nerfing casters requires the most work.
The following are the Resources part of the metacompendium. Mostly of them are player-centric as is normal for 3e, but DMs will find invaluable resources there too. Most all of the area is not my own work. I've collected these from other people, so feel free to 'add' in the discussion thread.
- Attack Things
- Caster Lists
- Class Handbooks
- Class Indexes
- Empty Files
- Feat Things
- Form Changing
- GP Things
- Initiative
- Miscellaneous
- Noncaster Lists
- Other Handbooks
- Miscellaneous Indexes
- PrC Stuff
- Prereqs
- Race things
- Rolling
- Source Things
- Template things
- XP Things
The penultimate folder, called 'What Copyright' houses full text listings that probably shouldn't be shared here all in one play to avoid a C&D. But I do have a zip of it, an email, and I respond to PMs. Wink Wink. It includes:
- the old Crystal Keep PDFs (great for monster filtering)
- the EVD
- the psionic powers list
- my sorting in excel of the full text of 3957 spells
- The Storm seeker's class bible
- The Storm seeker's feat bible
- The Storm seeker's magic item bible
- The Storm seeker's spell bible
- All Drag Mag feats & flaws
- Various screenshots of non-OGL content like the XP breakdowns
You'll want it just for the spell list. The ability to instantly sort every conjuration or every 3rd level spell, or every bard spell, or the highest to lowest spell level ranges is invaluable.
Lastly the Metacompendium also includes saved webpages of every single useful WotC page I could find. Basically if I've ever referenced it in the decades I've been doing 3rd edition optimization, it's in there. So some of the Eberron fluff pages aren't in there, nor are the little tournament summaries; things no one cares about. I have been told other people have a similar, guaranteed to be thorough copy of their own, but I have yet to see it. If someone can provide me a link, please PM me.
It also goes without saying that I have offline copies of the entirety of useful 3rd edition handbooks held in this website's handbook resource area. I offered it to our admins during our last crash. If you'd like the offline version, rather than just the links I use below, PM me.
Then there are things I've done that are
outside the metacompendium. These are:
(Note to self, I'm on page 12/99)
tl;dr The metacompendium has 2 parts. One forces balance onto 3e, the other helps you build characters. This subforum additionally stows away things that not everyone might need, but that you might find useful and amusing.
And before anyone complains about having to use this thread in order to navigate the dumped-all-in-one-place subforum here, I'll let you know that I did request 7 or so folders be made but it was denied.