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.

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:

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

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:

• http://dnd.wizards.com/go/article.aspx?x=dnd/updates

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:

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

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

When D&D 3.5e's web articles went dead, WotC copied them to an archive site at archive.wizards.com, and you could access those links by visiting the archive instead.

However, the archive site is now dead, so we have to fall back to the next available option: the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This service periodically scans notable pages it finds across the internet and saves a copy of them for historic reference, like what we're doing now.

This means we essentially do one of two things:

• Visit the original material via the Wayback Machine.
• If the original material wasn't archived somehow, visit WotC's internal archive of that material via the Wayback Machine.

Loading the original material via the Wayback Machine

For any given web address, you can prefix it with the following to explore the Wayback Machine's archived versions of the page:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/

So, for example, to get the D&D Updates Archive, formerly stored here:

https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/updatesarchive

You just stick that first address on the front like so:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/updatesarchive

This will look up the Wayback Machine's samples of this URL and offer you options.

You can also just visit the Wayback Machine's front page and enter the URl into the input at the top.

Loading WotC's archive site via the Wayback Machine

Maybe somehow the original material wasn't archived on the Wayback Machine. However, maybe the Wayback Machine has archived Wizard's archive copy of that page. (This is too many uses of the word “archive” in a paragraph.)

Article pages have /dnd/Article.aspx in the URL, like in the questio. To access these, replace the 'www' in the URL with 'archive'. So for the updates archive, this:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/updatesarchive
       ^^^

becomes this:

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

If there's no www. in the original, and it's just http://wizards.com/..., then add the archive. subdomain: http://archive.wizards.com/...

and then we access it on the Wayback Machine as above:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/updatesarchive

/go/article links

That's for links of this form:

http://dnd.wizards.com/go/article.aspx?x=dnd/updates

These were just forwarders to the proper article link. Since the 'go' behaviour is now dead, we want to get the proper article link itself. 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:

to get this:

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

which we can then access via the Wayback Machine as above.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/updates

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:

• Linkarchive

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:

• http://dnd.wizards.com/go/article.aspx?x=dnd/updates

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:

• Link

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:

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

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:

• http://dnd.wizards.com/go/article.aspx?x=dnd/updates

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:

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

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:

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

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:

• http://dnd.wizards.com/go/article.aspx?x=dnd/updates

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:

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

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:

• Linkarchive

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:

• http://dnd.wizards.com/go/article.aspx?x=dnd/updates

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:

• Link