#d&d 3e

[rosstmcd]

It occurs to me that it's pretty impressive that Order of the Stick has been going so long that it started by making jokes about transitioning from D&D 3E to 3.5, and just kept going while in the outside world we went to 4E then 5E and now 5.5.

[troacctid]

Memes I've shared with my D&D group, part 1

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Don't worry, I'll throw in the other lineup too. Just not as interesting as it's mostly "wtf is the gnome casting" with vague interest or disapproval.

D&D 3e PHB page 12 option line up, which would you Smash

Human

Halfling

Gnome

Half Orc

Dwarf

Half Elf

Elf

Voting ended onMar 21, 2024

[silliestcreature196]

Picked up Neverwinter Nights a couple days ago.

Going about as well as expected.

[pachycephalosauria]

An AD&D Wizard in 3.5's court

An oddball piece of D&D trivia is that it's possible to have a D&D 3.5e character that uses kits taken directly from AD&D 2e. To do so, make a kitted 2e character then use the official Conversion Manual to update your character from 2e to 3e. Make sure you pick your kit carefully: you're trying to qualify under a very specific piece of rules text in the Conversion Manual (page 11):

If a special benefit is not included in the Player’s Handbook as a feat, treat it as a feat using the description provided with the kit.

This gets you a 100% rules-legal 3e character with a unique feat based on a 2e kit of your choice. With this souped-up character, you then do a one-step update from 3e to 3.5e using this wonderful piece of rules text from the 3.5 update booklet:

Do you need to make these changes? No.

Frankly revolutionary game design. I'm so glad this exists as a rule. I love 3.5e. It's so extraordinarily, beautifully jank.

Anyways, there's a specific kit that I think is the funniest possible choice of all AD&D kits to convert to 3.5e. Scholarly Mage, from the A Mighty Fortress green book (page 46), has what is already really bizarre rules text:

Special Benefits: The scholarly mage's biggest benefit is the ability to cast spells. He learns spells just like a standard AD&D® game wizard. However, DMs must review pages 41-44 of the DMG concerning learning, acquiring, and researching new spells and maintaining spell books. All these rules must be followed absolutely!

Yes, the rules actually say this. This is verbatim. Including the registered trademark sign. That's actually, literally in the book, and it all carries through unmodified when converting editions. You learn (and cast) spells "just like a standard AD&D® game wizard" and your DM has to read books for the wrong edition of the game.

All these rules must be followed absolutely!

This is a valid D&D 3.5 feat.

Footnote: Green books are AD&D's historical fantasy line, blending real-world history with fantasy. I leave the exact implications of 'updating' a historical fantasy character to the decidedly non-historical world of 3.5e as a thought-exercise for the reader. But I will note I rolled on the d% country of origin table next to the scholarly mage kit and got a 36, which corresponds to the Holy Roman Empire.

[thatpollguy]

If you've played D&D (Dungeons and Dragons), which edition was your first? (original, e1, e2, e3, e3.5 etc)

Thank you for the poll request, anonymous! Keep 'em coming, folks.

If you've played Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) before, which edition was the first one you played?

Original

1st Edition

2nd Edition

3rd Edition

Version 3.5

4th Edition

5th Edition (2014 version)

5th Edition (2024 version)

I can't remember which edition was the first one I played

I have never played Dungeons & Dragons before

Voting ended onJan 21

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Favorite D&D Edition?

Original D&D

D&D Basic Set (includes Expert, Companion, Master and Immortals expansions)

Advanced D&D

AD&D Second Edition

D&D 3rd Edition

D&D 3.5 Edition

D&D 4th Edition

D&D 5th Edition

Voting ended onSep 5, 2024

[stillinthatweirdfaze]

I usually don’t make posts like this bc sharing hobbies and interests on the internet makes me very very anxious for whatever reason but I really really wanna share this issue of the Dragon magazine I found at the thrift store yesterday!!!!!!!!

25th anniversary edition of the official D&D magazine !!!!! It is issue 284 and it came out in June 2001. Unfortunately it did not come with the advertised bonus CD rom when I bought it though :[

I’m gonna use this post to show off some of the stuff that’s in it that I really liked or found interestingggg :]

First off we have a full spread add for baulders gate 2, which is kinda funny considering the third one didn’t come out that long ago. I want to eat this ye oldie early 2000ds generic fantasy font I bet it tastes like burnt shortbread.

A little step by step on how the artist made the cover which I find like. Infinitely charming. Especially since this cover itself is so gorgeous. I hope Todd Lockwood is doing good today.

A full page add for an online anime fantasy rpg called Nexus the kingdom of the winds. OUGGGGEEEEE this art style,,,,,,, it takes me back to places it takes me back to like that one vampire anime and clanad and YouTube anime top tens. Fuck graphic design we should start putting sparkles and radial gradients on everything again.

an add for a series of sound effect cds for your games which I want so so bad I need to know what’s on these.

Two little sections where it seems people can submit photos and stories about themselves or their game members to be published. The Dm of the month one is genuinely heartwarming and cute. The thought of Steve seeing that he won made me smile. Also “Nubile dwarf chicks” and “chaotic secretive” is a great example of how early 2000nds out of pocket this issue can be sometimes. You can fucking smell the energy off the second image.

An extremely funny review of a previous dragon issue.

an add for Gen con 2001 and a schedule of upcoming conventions. If anyone went to these I would genuinely love to hear about them I love convention history a whole lot especially from around this time

A page in, apparently a series, about what ttrpg players value in a game written by Gary Gygax!!! If anyone has any previous or the final issues of this study please do share I really really wanna see them. Also the three genders: males, females, and newbies

Two stat blocks for some half dragon characters

A Draconic to English translation table that I wish I had as a preteen because I would have eaten it the fuck up. Also I cut it off but the last sentence on the bottom right is “please don’t disembowel the dwarf” which apparently is “martiver thric gixustratt tundar”

Add for a brand of miniatures and in what stores to find them. I wonder how many of these places are still open

An add for WOTZ game stores with the tagline “it’s where you play the game” and advertising “Hella Bandwith” and “scantily clad BABES.” I find it unreasonably funny that they are three pictures of the same exact woman, scantily clad babe, one (1), one singular babe.

Spell and magical item themed crossword

A full on campaign setting of the real city of London. I didn’t take pictures of all of it but it has a history section, locations, npcs, adventure hooks, and what even looks like a little blank dungeon layout of a mansion . I feel like putting real places as campaign settings has always been like, a thing, but I don’t see it too often. Its charming I like it.

A stat block and gorgeous illustration for a lesser dragon companion. The gradient circle in the back is my favorite argggg I wanna draw like this sometimes

A section on how to assemble your own monster models. Admittedly I know close to nothing about model making so this was an extremely fun read for me

A bunch of PC portraits of half dragons that are so so cool. You see a lot of stuff about people getting really specific designs about different hybrids like oh a dwarf tyfling looks different than an elf tyfling n that sort of stuff in the modern day but you don’t really see it canonized at all. So it’s really interesting to see that concept in an officially published D&D thing, even if it’s just a magazine. I really like the dwarf one a lot.

Possibly my favorite thing ever is this cartoon that reads like a fucking wizard tumblr shitpost. Like down to a fucking tea this is some shit the evil wizard blog would say and it makes me so so so happyyyyyyyyy. It’s the cadence that amazes me they got the tumblr wizard cadence exactly right. Im posting this shit on its own without shame bc I need people to see it. Pour me something whimsical and arcane bar wench.

A absolutely chefs kiss add for a ????? Pc????? Pc game????? Pc accessory??? I honestly can’t tell anyway enjoy your free ps2 polygonal hotted woman ass

And finally the thing that made me fuckin gasp out loud when I saw it, an add for the original year of our lord 2001 shitty D&D movie with special features and online sweepstakes to win a trip to Prague. Holy shit. God I love this game.

anyway that’s it, I plan to frame this thing and put it up somewhere. Ty for reading all my nerd shit. :,]