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It appears that in anticipation of D&D Next Wizards of the Coast has removed much of the Dungeons and Dragons, 3rd Edition Web content. I didn't perform a thorough search to determine if all the content is removed (e.g. I know the Three Dragon Ante Web enhancement "Luck of the Draw" and the Mind's Eye column about psionic tattoos "Getting Wired" are both gone--better not to ask why those are my go-to articles), but it all might be.

What's the best way--and by best I mean both legal and convenient--to continue to access this content?

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Much of the content is still on Wizards' website. Why they didn't create proper redirections I don't know.

Some of it is preserved by "simply" prefixing the word archive to the old URL. For example, the url wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/we can now be found under archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/we. In some cases more modifications have to be made, but I have not discovered a system.

For links that can not be reconstructed, I recommend the Wayback machine.

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Looks like URLs of the form http://dnd.wizards.com/go/whatever are just shortcuts for http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/whatever, so, for example, the "Getting Wired" article can now be found here and "Luck of the Draw" is now here. Alas, the download link for "Luck of the Draw" seems to be broken. :( – Ilmari Karonen Aug 1 '14 at 21:43
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The archive feature will generally get you the content you once had a link to. There's a couple of URL forms I recognise that'll work.

/dnd/Article links

For Article pages — ones that have /dnd/Article.aspx in the URL, like in the question — there's still a way to access them: replace the 'www' in the URL with 'archive'. So for the updates archive, you'll now need to visit this link:

If there is no 'www' and it's just in the form of http://wizards.com/dnd/example then add the 'archive' portion, to turn that domain into http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/example

/go/article links

For links of this form:

This seems to just be a shortcut or redirect to a proper article link (i.e. the format in the question). Take the bit at the end following the ?x=, which in this case is dnd/updates, and dump it on the end of the proper Article URL:

http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=

Producing, in this case, a link to the Errata & Rules Updates page:

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I believe a complete centralized copy of all the official 3.x wotc web content can be found in a personal archive over here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dbmkg8efcbn4eak/AABSjyTbZIEDdIWm0I_uVFkpa?dl=0

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