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Richie
  
 
| | #1 posted September 16, 2004 at 1:35pm (EDT) |
So I finally got some D&D books (Third edition; didn't want the 3.5 stuff).
Got Players Handbook, DM's Guide, MM, and Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.
I also have a few of the paper back books that get more detailed about the
individual classes on the way.
I never played D&D before (except in video game format of course), but
I'm surprised by how much I already "sorta" know from the games. lol
Still, there's ALOT that's not in the games, but it doesn't seem as hard as
I thought it'd be to pick up.
I've played other RPG's before. Mostly Palladium Books' games. And I
even have a bit published with them.  It's not much. Just some super powers
for their Heroes Unlimited super hero game. But I'm happy about it. 
Anywho, D&D seems like it might be a fun game.
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nihon
  
 
| | #2 posted September 16, 2004 at 2:36pm (EDT) |
Why not 3.5?
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Richie
| | #3 posted September 16, 2004 at 2:41pm (EDT) |
Well, the third edition books are cheaper on amazon. Plus, when I first became interested
in the D&D books, it was mostly for resources for making Neverwinter Night modules
and that game uses the Third edition rules.
Also, I liked NWN. But Temple of Elemental Evil is based on the 3.5 rules and it
seemed kinda weird to me.
I know I can't totally judge the .5 rules by that, but like I said, some of these third
edition books are only 8 or 9 bucks used on Amazon and that's a price even I can afford. 
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Yaverot
| | #4 posted September 16, 2004 at 7:13pm (EDT) |
Well I'm making great progress in ToEE, then I'll step backwards into 3.0 NWN where everyone's a 1st level ranger.
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It's not fair to deny me, of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me. |
Richie
| | #5 posted September 17, 2004 at 1:32am (EDT) |
So what are some of the changes in the freakin' Point release?
And how the hell does a game company do a point release.....that's what Apple
does when it wants to play Microsoft and charge more for what should essentially
be a free update.
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Yaverot
| | #6 posted September 17, 2004 at 12:55pm (EDT) |
Rangers got additional abilities, and they're spread thoughout the 20 levels, so you don't pick up just 1 level of ranger to get all the cool stuf (like you do in 3.0)
A few skill lists were tweked, some skills were eliminated as 'useless' and merged into other skills. Most of the rest was rule clairification as I recall. You can look at the 3.5 update accessory on wizards.com to see more of the changes.
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It's not fair to deny me, of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me. |
Richie
| | #7 posted September 17, 2004 at 1:28pm (EDT) |
I'll give it a look.
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Yaverot
| | #8 posted September 20, 2004 at 8:24pm (EDT) |
The Barbarian was changed somewhat as well, IIRC. Some spells were modified (moved in level, or changed in power) mainly for play-balance reasons. Wizards also standardized a bunch of +2 to two related skills feats, so everybody and their grandmother didn't use different names for each pairing.
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It's not fair to deny me, of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me. |
Richie
| | #9 posted October 14, 2004 at 1:20pm (EDT) |
I know what you mean about Rangers in the 3rd edition now! 
You're right. It's like they get almost everything at first level and then just get
some more racial enemies at later levels.
They basically get 2 free feats at first level (plus normal class and race feats).
Yowza.
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Yaverot
| | #10 posted October 14, 2004 at 1:56pm (EDT) |
Don't forget the Fighter HD too. 3.5 rangers get a d8 instead, overall they nerfed lv 1 but gave people 'good' reason to use most/all levels of the class.
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Ensign Dracula? He's undead, Jim. |
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