Sources

The following table lists all Dungeons and Dragons® version 3.5 sources drawn upon for Archive Three-Five, sorted by date. Publications prior to July 2003, the publishing date for the Player’s Handbook (version 3.5), are considered to be version 3.0 works and are included only when a version 3.5 publication refers to them in a more than passing manner. Those that are included are marked by footnotes explaining this inclusion.

Title: The title of a particular volume.

Book Code: The official abbreviation for a particular volume. (See below).

Printed: The first publication date of a particular volume as printed in that volume.

Table: D&D® Publications
TitleBook
Code		Printed
Oriental Adventures1OA10/2001
Epic Level Handbook2ELH7/2002
Monster Manual II3MM29/2002
Miniatures Handbook4MH3/2003
Fiend Folio4FF4/2003
Player’s Handbook (v3.5)PH7/2003
Dungeon Master’s Guide (v3.5)DMG7/2003
Monster Manual (v3.5)MM7/2003
DraconomiconDr11/2003
Complete WarriorCW12/2003
Unearthed ArcanaUA2/2004
Complete DivineCD5/2004
Expanded Psionics HandbookXPH6/2004
Planar HandbookPlH7/2004
Monster Manual IIIMM38/2004
Races of StoneRoS9/1/2004
FrostburnFr9/2004
Libris Mortis5LM10/2004
Complete ArcaneCA11/2004
Races of DestinyRoDe12/1/2004
Complete AdventurerCAd1/2005
Races of the WildRoW2/1/2005
SandstormSa3/2005
Lords of MadnessLoM4/1/2005
Heroes of BattleHB5/2005
Dungeon Master’s Guide IIDMG26/2005
StormwrackSto8/2005
Heroes of HorrorHH10/2005
Spell CompendiumSC12/2005
Races of the DragonRoDr1/1/2006
Player’s Handbook IIPH25/2006
Monster Manual IVMM47/2006
Dragon MagicDrM69/1/2006
Complete MageCM10/2006
CityscapeCi11/2006
Complete ScoundrelCS1/2007
Magic Item CompendiumMIC3/2007
Complete ChampionCC5/2007
Monster Manual VMM57/2007
Rules CompendiumRC10/1/2007
  1. This version 3.0 publication was included because some version 3.5 publications, such as Races of the Dragon, make reference to it.
  2. While this version 3.0 book is included, most of its actual material in Archive Three-Five is drawn from the epic level material covered under the Open Game License v1.0a, which upgrades it for version 3.5.
  3. This version 3.0 publication was included to avoid leaving a numeric gap in the Monster Manual volumes. A later supplement was printed to bring some of its contents up to version 3.5 standards.
  4. This version 3.0 publication is referenced in later version 3.5 material and is included to the degree that material is mentioned. Content used here is brought up to 3.5 standards.
  5. This name doesn’t match its subtitle, “Book of the Undead”. Libris is plural of the Latin word liber, which means “book”; Mortis simply means “death”. So the main title actually translates as “Books of Death”. More proper Latin might render it as Liber Inmortui, but that doesn’t sound as good.
    And that was today’s…word nerd moment. 🤓
  6. Some lists give this abbreviation as “DM”. This confuses the book with the abbreviation for Dungeon Master. Also, “Dr” is used in many of these book codes to abbreviate “Dragon”. “DrM” it stays.

Book Codes: The book codes in the table above are used, often between braces, throughout Archive Three-Five to indicate the source of a particular feat, spell, creature, weapon, special crafting material, magical item, magical item property, and so forth. For example, encountering {CA} in the text means that the rule or item in question came from Complete Arcane. A book code in braces may be followed by a page number, so {CW 98} would refer to page 98 of Complete Warrior.

In most cases, where there is a conflict between the same rule published in two or more different sources, the latest version is considered to be the correct one and the incorrect version omitted or at least marked with a note with a red warning bar in the left margin. This is, of course, handled on a case-by-case basis.

Core Rulebooks: Occasionally, reference will be made to the “core rulebooks”. The core rulebooks are the version 3.5 printings of the Player’s Handbook, the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and the Monster Manual⁠—​the first three rulebooks of all editions of Dungeons and Dragons except the original version published in 1974 (and a few aberrant versions that never had wide acceptance). These three books were considered to be the minimum a Dungeon Master needs to run a D&D game; players typically only needed the Player’s Handbook.

This list of D&D version 3.0 and 3.5 publications is by no means complete; they are merely the ones that A35 includes⁠—​for now. It was decided to not include material in setting specific sources, although much of this material appeared in later sources that were not setting specific and are therefore included in A35.

For a complete list of all such publications, see the Publication List. Many of these are version 3.0 sources or setting specific sources or both. A35 may add books from that list to this list later if the need arises.