Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Dungeons & Dragons 3.5
TTRPG
High-Fantasy
Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons & Dragons v.3.5 is a 2003 revision of D&D 3rd Edition, the ruleset Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams designed for Wizards of the Coast in 2000 as the first all-new D&D edition since the company acquired the property from TSR. Rather than a new edition in its own right, 3.5 arrived as a focused patch just three years later - smoothing out rules ambiguities, rebalancing spells and monsters, and expanding the core books.
Though the revision was controversial at the time, with even 3.0 co-designer Monte Cook publicly criticizing its pace and motives. It runs on the d20 System, the Open Game License-based engine 3rd Edition introduced that let third-party publishers legally produce D&D-compatible material for the first time, kicking off the d20 boom of the early 2000s and, eventually, Paizo's Pathfinder.