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+ | ====== Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition ====== | ||
+ | Kidnapped from WikiPedia: [[https:// | ||
+ | A major revision of the AD&D rules was released in 2000. As the Basic game had been discontinued some years earlier, and the more straightforward title was more marketable, the word " | ||
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+ | Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, and Skip Williams all contributed to the 3rd edition Player' | ||
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+ | The d20 system uses a more unified mechanic than earlier editions, resolving nearly all actions with a d20 die roll plus appropriate modifiers. Modifiers based on ability scores follow a standardized formula. Saving throws are reduced from five categories based on forms of attack to three based on type of defense. | ||
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+ | The combat system is greatly expanded, adopting into the core system most of the optional movement and combat system of the 2nd edition Players Option: Combat and Tactics book. Third edition combat allows for a grid system, encouraging highly tactical gameplay and facilitating the use of miniatures. | ||
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+ | New character options were introduced. The new sorcerer class was introduced. The thief is renamed rogue, a term that 2nd edition uses to classify both the thief and bard classes, and introduces prestige classes, which characters can only enter at higher character levels, and only if they meet certain character-design prerequisites or fulfill certain in-game goals. Later products included additional and supplementary rules subsystems such as " | ||
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+ | 3rd edition removes previous editions' | ||
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+ | The d20 System is presented under the Open Game License, which makes it an open source system for which authors can write new games and game supplements without the need to develop a unique rules system and, more importantly, | ||
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+ | ===== Dungeons & Dragons v3.5 ===== | ||
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+ | The Dungeons & Dragons v. 3.5 core rulebooks | ||
+ | In July 2003, a revised version of the 3rd edition D&D rules (termed v. 3.5) was released that incorporated numerous small rule changes, as well as expanding the Dungeon Master' |
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