D&D 3.5 -- Top 10 Supplements
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มิ.ย. 2024
- Today, to mark the 20th prestige class review, a little side video where I go over my top ten favorite D&D 3.5 supplement books. More top 10s, such as for skill tricks, reserve feats, and more, are upcoming.
If you have any ideas for prestige classes you'd like for me to review, or other types of videos you'd like me to make regarding D&D 3.5, please leave a comment below.
tags: D&D 3.5, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, D&D 3e, D&D Third Edition - เกม
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Honestly my favorite is Tome of Battle. As a DM of a powergamey group, I really strongly dislike the gap in both power and coolness between martials and casters, and Tome of Battle helps a lot with that.
I've been saying the same thing for a while. Love ToB, love the Warblade ❤
Loved it as a player, hated it as a DM.
yawn
@@Kaiyanwang82 ok
Lords of Madness and Elder Evils are fantastic books!
Just found your channel and subscribed 3.5 is just the edition for me. . . My list is different especially since the Miniature Handbook would be my top pick but I really enjoyed hearing your opinions
Miniatures Handbook is great. It has a particular style to the art that's hard to put into words... and the style of the feats, like Distracting Attack and Reckless Charge, was never really replicated. it had a lot of generic tactical options.
Complete Warrior, Complete Arcane, and Savage Species are 3 of my personal top 3.5 books if not the top 3.5 books that I use (also not counting Monster Manuals) and I love them to death, they give so much flavor and variety.
It was really hard not to include Savage Species on my list. Almost came down to a coin flip. Complete Warrior and Arcane are very solid. I can't think of a Complete-series book I didn't like.
@threefivearchive I still don't quite get the monster classes. You get so few HD, and aren't exactly any better off by the end than anything else. (Heck, seems worse overall than Unearthed Arcana's buydown of up to 3 LA.
Draconomicon, my beloved. I jest. While I love the book I acknowledge how narrow it's focus is.
And I too love Tactical feats.
Draconomicon was definitely in the running as well. Beautiful cover. Interesting prestige classes. I will try to review at least one of them in the near future. Libris Mortis, Draconomicon, Savage Species, and Dragon Magic were strong runners up for the list. I considered a top 20 but that just felt excluding at that point.
Hopefully something akin to tactical feats will find their way into 5e at some point. I would love to rework some of them conceptually for the game. Sadly, the most I can really convert to 5e are monsters and some spells.
Draconomicon has maybe my favorite artwork of any of them
Savage Species is really fun, but it can get insane fast, especially with things like Symbiotic allowing you to have effectively two characters at once and all 6 dump stats
I'm ashamed I forgot it. I would have included it. Just not sure what I could have removed. I should have done a Top 15....
I gotta say, fiendish codex 2 took me for a whirlwind that idk if I've read any other splat front to back more than once. Great read
3.5 still alive and the Best!
Always!
I know it's considered cringe and edgy these days, but I loved the Book of Exalted Good and Book of Vile Darkness when I was an edgy teenager. I used a lot of stuff from those splat books. For me my top three books were
1. BOED/BOVD
2. Sandstorm
3. Draconomicon
I was hooping for to hear about book of nine swords. Or drangons!
I always find myself referencing The Stronghold Builders Guidebook.
That is an excellent book, and alongside Savage Species is one of the ones I regret not putting on the list.
@@threefivearchive I can definitely get behind Savage Species. There are things from all of the books that you referenced that I have used items from, except Lords of Madness, but I always end up going back to the stronghold builders, or the Arms and Equipment guide. I didn't stress the lack of inclusion, as I think Stronghold Builders Guidebook is "officially" 3rd ed, not 3.5.
On a Separate/related line, have you got any thoughts on "Rulebook IV"?
No particular order: Draconomicon, Savage Species, Epic Level Handbook.
I have never played a game i just like reading the books 😅
Elder Evils is so good bro
Very good list. It's amazing how much the A&EG is underrated. Obdurium + Oerthblood forever.
Surprised to see your number one, but agree its a great book. I'm currently sending my spelljammer players to a certain dead moon...
That's excellent. I'm not a huge fan of Spelljammer but Atropus would fit in there perfectly as a high level location. Props for thinking of that.
I love using the Arms&Equip, Eipc and Cityscape books as adaptable supplements to use with Pathfinder.
Lords of Madness has the greatest metamagic feat of all time, Ocular spell. Fire spells from your eyes!!!! F-yeah!!!
Tome of Battle, if it had been released with its original flavor, would have been one of the best supplements for 3.5.
Complete Scoundrel is GREAT.
3.5's DMGII and PHBII were my favorite. One of them had guild rules, and ever since, I've been using them as my rules for backdrop battles. Instead of needing mass combat rules, I have segments of armies be counted as "guilds," and roll them against each other.
But, aside from D20 Modern, my favorite D20 book are the Star Wars D20 Hero's Guide and Galactic Campaign Guide. Each of them are a mixture of DMG for Star Wars D20 and additional rules to basically expand how the game can be played, but my favorite part is the rules for sympathy. Maybe it's video-gamey, but tracking how far "in" you are with any given faction adds surprising depth to the universe, and adventures, and character interaction, both among NPCs AND PCs. I've never DMed a game without Sympathy since.
1. Heroes of Battle
2. Complete Warrior
3. Complete Arcane
4. Arms & Equipment Guide
5. Lords of Madness
6. Frostburn
7. Exemplars of Evil
8. Cityscape
9. Epic Level Handbook
10. Elder Evils
Is #1 your favorite in that case?
The complet Rena had some very useful feats for mage
Based elder evils enjoyer
It is fun how much Mystara stuff got genericized by Wlder Evils and late-3.5 Dragon and Dugeon magazine.
Not a bad list. Got me skimming through frostburn again lol. My favorite supliment is the stronghold builders guidebook. I used it all tye time to create npc forts and towers. I based an entire campaing around the players winning a broken down fort that guarded a pass to some forgotten lands. The fort came with tittles and land so the players had a lot of power to change and build whatever they want. I got the idea from might and magic 7 and the harmondale castle.
Stronghold Builder's Guidebook is fantastic. My only issue with it is that by the time you reach the level that you can make use of all of those fantastic rooms and traps and such, you are such high level that you don't really need a castle anymore. But you can certainly work around that.
@threefivearchive that is true. I gave them a lot of gold from completing quests or pleasing allies so they could really get into it.
Father Llimic has the best 1 shot for level 18 characters just ascending the mountain
Agreed! He is my favorite elder evil and has some of the best encounters. The lineup of skin dancers, greathorn minotaurs, and war trolls guarding the Hulks of Zoretha is a favorite of mine as well. Nothing too unique about the encounter, just that the mishmash of creatures are very diverse yet strangely fit together.
I have to say I loved basically every book you talked about.
Thanks!
Great supplement. Still have my physical copy
Complete Adventurer is hands down one of the most necessary for expanding from Core without feeling like a real stretch of the game.
I could agree with that. Arcane and Divine are pretty superfluous, and the classes in Complete Warrior aren't that great. The only one I feel could compete would be PHB II
nice video.
I just discovered this channel, the only book I don't have from this list is Exemplars of Evil, but all are good choices. How would you rank the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting/supplements in general? I'm curious to track down the Hobgoblin sourcebook but I knew nothing about the setting until recently.
I actually do have Kingdoms of Kalamar, though I only read it once, and long ago. It seemed good, I recall there being kobold lore in there I quite liked. Though that might have been another book. I would do a top 10 of 3.5 third party supplements, but that's hard to do when I only own a small fraction of them. Perhaps I could just go through a few of my personal favorites in a video one time.
@@threefivearchive that's very true there are oodles and oodles of the 3rd party materiel out there, I've always liked the Sword and Sorcery books for 3 and 3.5 Ravenloft as well as their Relics and Rituals books like the Scared lands and Camelot.
@@albertcapley6894 Swords and Sorcery is great. I've never heard of Camelot though. That sounds intriguing.
@@threefivearchive I gave you the wrong name😅 it's actually "Relics and Rituals: Excalibur" they call it a "genre sourcebook"
@@albertcapley6894 Ah that'd explain why I wasn't finding it. Now I'll look at it a bit.
I loved 3.5, but just have to note, you said you weren't including 3.0 in the list, yet The Epic Level Handbook was 3rd, not 3.5....unless I'm mistaken. Great list though, wish I had more 3.5 books,.
No, that is a fair point. What I intended with that statement was the books like Sword and Fist and the like which were mostly reprinted into 3.5 supplements later. The Epic Level Handbook never got a real 3.5 updated version, so I lumped it in with the other 3.5 books.
@@threefivearchive 👍🏻gotcha. I always wanted them to put out an updated ELH that was slightly more tight, like 3.5 was to 3.0. I guess not many play at that level, but I liked it for the ultra powerful npcs that were the campaign big bads.
@@jalair666 Me too. I loved the monster stat blocks with huge numbers. Seems silly but to 13 year old me it was impressive. Actual epic level play a bit of a disappointment comparatively.
Yes yes i found elder Elvis as a good book for world endings
If you want some love from the TH-cam algorithm, do a tier list video of every 3.5 book