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Forgotten Realms goes all 3rd Edition. New hardback sourcebook and many new or revisited titles are available. For more updates, visit the www.wizards.com website

To back up the familiar setting, there are 3rd edition supplements already available.

Lords of Darkness

A Forgotten Realms sourcebook, its the definitive book on villains and evil organizations from that world. This volume provides game-ready information featuring evil groups and individuals. It also includes details about prestige classes, secret lairs, and maps of villains' dungeons that can be used in any Dungeon & Dragons campaign. Buy this book online with Legendgames.

The Magic of Faerun

Provides details of setting-specific spells and in depth coverage of spellcasting. It is billed as the 'authoritative guide to magic in the Forgotten Realms'

Enemies and Allies

A collection of villains and powerful allies to enhance your Dungeons & Dragons game. It's packed with powerful spellcasters, devious mobsters, and deadly monsters galore, and includes statistics for powerful and unusual nonplayer characters, ready-to-run minions, guards, and thugs and full descriptions of the D&D characters from the Player's Handbook

Oriental Adventures

A Dungeons & Dragons game setting with rules, backgrounds, characters and races unique to the oriental world. Drawing heavily on Far Eastern myths and legends, this is a wonderfully illustrated atmospheric and interesting addition to the D&D3E family. Buy this book online with Legendgames.

Defenders of the Faith

WotC d20 rules add-on gives all the details you need to play a cleric or paladin in the 3rd edition game. Packed with new ideas to customise your character, new prestige classes, expanded feats and specific spells, weapons and equipment.

The Standing Stone

The latest WotC d20 adventure is set in a remote village where sinister things are going on in the dark of night. Do you dare venture to the Standing Stone? Can you save the village from a terrible fate? 7th level standalone adventure. Great production value.

The Speaker in Dreams

A city setting adventure for 5th level characters. Unravel the sinister plots that befall this small city in the festival week where everyone should be laughing and having fun.....

Diablo II: Diablerie

The sourcebook for D&D3E based on the computer RPG. OK so the cover is not one of the best, but its what lies within that counts.

The core rules for D&D3E are the Dungeon Masters Guide (DMG), Monster Manual (MM) and Players Handbook (PHB). Buy these books online with Legendgames.

With unparalleled production value, these hardback books have full colour throughout, atmospheric pictures and loads of information.

Whilst the DMG is a valuable tool, the main game mechanics are set out within the PHB, and this is the book you cannot do without. If you are new to roleplaying, we recommend the Introductory Adventure Box set as a first choice.

Manual of the Planes

Stuck on the Prime for too long? In need of some Extra-Planar adventuring? The newly revised Manual of the Planes brings the realms of the Gods firmly into the 3rd edition system. It contains unique items, monsters, spells and rules for playing 'out there...'

Psionics Handbook

Use the Force, Luke! Well, now the 3rd edition D&D system has Psionics rules, so you can use the force, officially. This book contains rules, resources, prestige classes and new specialist items for those rare adventurers who prove Mind is stronger than Might.

Adventures for 3rd Edition:

The first Wizards adventure is the Sunless Citadel. It may not be the best adventure ever produced, but it allows you to iron out the new rules and ideas of the 3rd edition whilst having some great fun too!

The Forge of Fury takes you deeper into the fabulous D&D world, written specially for the 3rd edition system!

One of the latest D&D3E adventures, set in the Forgotten Realms, its the first high level adventure for the new rules

As Greyhawk will be the official setting for 3rd Edition D&D, this new gazeteer will be invaluable. Buy this book online with Legendgames.

Dont forget the Forgotten Realms though! Still going strong, the Realms are detailed on this CD rom Atlas with a vast array of maps and plans for your adventures. Now the Realms have gone 3rd Edition too! Buy the new hardback sourcebook online with us at the bargain price of £21.50!

About Dungeons and Dragons

It all started many years ago with a simple version of what became Basic Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). Then followed Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D) which greatly expanded on the game but brought with it layers of rules that lacked consistency. The 2nd Edition added yet more layers and brought together additional material published in Dragon and Dungeon magazines. Now we have 3rd Edition (D&D3E), and a complete re-write from the ground up.

Along the way, we have seen many official worlds created for the game. From the Grand Duchy and Greyhawk settings of old through the Forgotten Realms and the fantastic Dragonlance worlds of the late Eighties to the lands of Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Birthright and laterly the wonderful Planescape setting.

So much detail and background is amazing, and thats just part of the official list....

So, we end up with D&D3E. Is that the end of the line then? Well no, it isnt. As part of their push to regain lost D&Ders, Wizards of the Coast (who took over from TSR) have gone and made the core system mechanics available free of charge to just about anyone who wants to develop material to support the system. Just look around at the shelves and you will see adventures and supplements from many different companies. Some are sleek well produced items that inspire your games, some are poor imitations of the (best left forgotten) past.

How does this effect the hobby? Well, for one thing it makes it cheap and easy to produce support material that conforms to the system everyone is playing. It should result in a wide range and choice of material, and it should continue to rouse interest in the hobby. It appears that Wizards have targeted the computer games players too. Take a look at the graphics in the new core books, they have that computer look to them (and they are stunning for the most part). Who knows if this is deliberate, but it works for me!

We hope the new production values are applied accross the range, from rules and adventures to magazines and resources. There are some great items out there, like the Forgotten Realms interactive CD atlas (never be short of a map again), and if these items are given the D&D3E glossy treatment, they will enhance the game no end.

If you want to know more about the game, visit the Wizards D&D site. There are some great historic downloads available (old modules and supplements you thought you would never see again!) as well as news, views and resources aplenty.

You can buy the introduction box set if you are new to roleplaying, complete with simple rules, pre-designed characters, dungeon layout, monster counters and the all important funny shaped dice! We dont recommend this to experienced players, as its a bit simplistic.

Dont forget, Wizards of the Coast also produce a line of best selling novels based on the D&D theme. Get some great background and new ideas for your campaigns, or simply enjoy them as a cracking good read in their own right!

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d20 Mini Modules - new from Alderac Entertainment, the people who bring you 7th Sea Roleplaying Game

The d20 open licence has produced a flood of modules from many companies. Alderac have joined in too, but with a new slant on the idea. After carrying out exhaustive surveys, they found a large number of people who buy adventures rarely use everything in the product, but just take the bits they can add to existing campaigns. Thus the mini module idea was born. Short, cheap, easy to run self contained adventures that can be slipped into existing campaigns easily.

Each of the eight current modules has an adventure introducing a new monster, spell and or magic item. You can choose from classic dungeon encounters to wilderness expeditions, temple jaunts to city based settings, extra planar excursions or forgotten castles filled with mystery, and all for a few quid!!

Well, give them a go! Available online now, or from your local stockist.

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