Archiving the D&D 3.5 Archives: Consolidation efforts for posterity

[daremetoidareyo]

Archiving the D&D 3.5 Archives: Consolidation efforts for posterity

I Hit the character limit in the List of obscure first party sources and so I moved this here. The plan is to try to get everything neatly collected. But some stuff is already totally gone. For example, some materials on "Realms by Night" is no longer accessible on Wizards server, although you can find it mirrored on a dedicated forgotten realms page. I can't post that one here due to that as it might be a breach of terms of OGL service. Sorry. Here is what I have so far.

The plan is to eventually sift the materials along a fluff/crunch axis and by subsetting. But for now, it's just gonna be a big ugly list. Red entries are ones that I need to go back and be a completist about later.

---

GENERIC
Update: I just compiled the Far Corners of the World Archives into a single pdf - It's available here: Consolidated Far Corners of the World Archives
Update: I just compiled the Fey features Archives into a single pdf - It's available Here: Consolidated Fey Features Archives
Update: I just compiled the Mind's Eye Archive into a single pdf. It's available here: Consolidated Mind's Eye Archive
Update: I just compiled the Steal this Hook Archive into a single pdf. It's available here: Consolidated Steal this Hook Archive
Update: I just compiled the Random Encounters Archive into a single pdf. It's available here: Consolidated Random encounters archive

REALMS
Update: I just compiled the worms of the north archive into a single PDF. It's available here: Consolidated Wyrms of the North
Update: I just compiled the Magic Books of Faerun Archive into a single PDF - It's available here: Consolidated Magic Books of Faerun
Update: I just compiled the Adventure Locales Archive into a single PDF - It's available here: Consolidated Adventure Locales.
Update: I just compiled the Class Chronicles Archive into a single PDF - It's available here: Consolidated Class Chronicles
Update: I just compiled the Realms personalities Archives into a single pdf. It's available here: Consolidated Realms Personalities Archive
Update: I just compiled the Realms Lore with crunch mechanics into a single pdf. It's available here: Realms Lore Crunch
Update: I just compiled the Minitper's Chapbook Archive into a single pdf, although you could just download your own version of #10, (the most recent entry) for a recap of the new materials introduced therein. It's available here: Consolidated (for some OCD reason) Minitper's Chapbook Archives
Update: I just compiled the Perilous Gateways Archive into a single giant pdf. It's available here: Consolidated Perilous Gateways Archive
Update: I just compiled the Rand's Travelogue Archive into a single pdf. It's available here: Consolidated Rand's Travelogue Archive
Update: Elminister Speaks Archive is compiled here and mirrored HERE
Update: Circles of Vehlarr is 2nd edition, and has been removed from the archive.
Update: The Realms by Night archive is full of broken links and you'll need to google the pages individually to access their content. Sorry.

What's left?: Border Kingdoms Archive, Return to Undermountain Archive, Waterdeep News Archive, and the Unabridged Realms Lore Archive, green regent archive

EBERRON
Update: I just compiled the Gearing up for Eberron Archive into a single pdf. It's available here: Consolidated Gearing up for Eberron Archive
Update: I just compiled the Sharn Inquisitive Archive into a single pdf. It's available here: Consolidated Sharn Inquisitive Archive
Update: I just compiled the Adventure Seeds Archive (Lots of Fluff- little Crunch) and the Living Spells Archive into a single PDF - It's available here: Consolidated Adventure Seeds/Living Spells
Update: I just Compiled the Dragonshards archive into a single PDF - It's available here: Consolidated Dragonshards.
Update: I just compiled the Eberron Expanded Archive into a single pdf - It's available here: Consolidated Eberron Expanded
Update: I Just compiled the the Eberron Under Glass Archives into a single pdf. I suspect that Eberron Under Glass doesn't have any game materials, but I might be wrong. It's available here: Consolidated Eberron Under Glass Archives
Update: I just compiled the Eberron's Clockwork Wonders into a single PDF - It's Available here: Consolidated Clockwork Wonders
Update: I just compiled the Expeditionary dispatch Archives into a single pdf - It's available here: Consolidated Expeditionary Dispatch Archives

What's left?: Xendric Expeditions, & Mark of Heroes

[daremetoidareyo]

saved in case I need it.

[daremetoidareyo]

This one is also saved, just in case I need it.

[GilesTheCleric]

It's worth mentioning that we also have some community backups of the old (now deleted) forums, as well as several Dropbox mirrors of the WotC web content in the Index of 3.X WotC Threads.

[daremetoidareyo]

Thanks Giles!

I have added gearing up for eberron and the sharn inquisitive archives.

Question:
What is the best format for the mark of heroes or xendric expeditions archives. They are so robust!...and kinda pointless to save...I guess there is a lot of good fluff around the caldyn fragments...

[Troacctid]

I wouldn't say they're pointless—I mean, I understand those adventures are relatively rare nowadays, but if you have them, then you could totally still play them, and all the stuff in those web articles would totally be useful.

[daremetoidareyo]

I wouldn't say they're pointless—I mean, I understand those adventures are relatively rare nowadays, but if you have them, then you could totally still play them, and all the stuff in those web articles would totally be useful.

True. I'll do them last. I'm finding a bunch of uncategorized stuff on the forgotten realms archive that doesn't fit into discrete features, Like this halfling pepper spitting techinique:

Ursuma Pepper Powder: This powder is ground from very hot peppers imported from Chondath and mixed with a secret alchemical substance. When put in a person's mouth, the user takes 1 point of subdual damage. One round later, the pepper powder can be spat into a foe's eyes. If the spitter hits with a ranged touch attack (10-foot range increment), the recipient must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 13) or take 1d6 points of subdual damage and be blinded for 1d6 rounds. "Spitting" is considered an exotic weapon. Unless proficient, spitters suffer the standard -4 penalty to spit attacks with Ursuma pepper powder. Ursuma pepper powder is not sold, and therefore has no price. Its weight is negligible.

or these saurials! or the master harper

Plus there are all of the art pages. I'll finish up getting the rest of the generic setting materials put up, then we can make a master list to the gaming materials a la the archive of obscure 1st party sources so a person knows where to look for stuff.

[Troacctid]

I did some digging, and I actually managed to find some of the old RPGA adventures archived on the old Wizards Community site, so I was curious to see what that Xen'drik Expeditions and Mark of Heroes stuff was about. Turns out they're not included, though. It's pretty much all 4e stuff AFAICT.