3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons
Third Edition Dungeons & Dragons clarified and streamlined the rules, and for the first time clearly labeled the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual as the three core rulebooks. The designers made a deliberate attempt to make the rules more internally consistent. For example, these editions provided constant and consistent rules for, effects such as invisibility and fatigue that were applied to all players and monsters. Prior to third edition, different game mechanics to describe the same idea were used in different sources. A second example is that in 3rd edition, rolling high on a d20 test is always the desired outcome, while in prior editions it was desirable to roll high on some d20 tests such as attack rolls, but it was desirable to roll low on others such as saving throws. More significant was the release of most of these rules as open source, in the form of a System Reference Document that could be used by third party game companies to create their own products compatible with Dungeons & Dragons.
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