Upper_Krust said:
Poignant though, because I am trying to gauge if there is enough desire to warrant the effort (its not exactly as if time has ever been on my side).
Fair enough, but I'm not sure if this forum is the right place to gauge overall interest. Something on the Paizo forums, for example, would probably get more responses from potential buyers.
Upper_Krust said:
The more I think about it, the more I see myself having to do the bulk of the groundwork on this anyway.
Well, you've always got me.
Upper_Krust said:
I'm not totally sure what the difference is, but I could look through the Pathfinder Bestiary 2 and make stats comparable I imagine.
The differences are a great number of small tweaks; virtually everything is different in some small way. The place to get started is probably the
Pathfinder Conversion Guide, though it's aimed at PCs more than monsters.
Upper_Krust said:
That's true. but if the fans knew everything about cannibals then they wouldn't need me to make a book about em'.
True, but then if you knew everything about Pathfinder, you wouldn't need advice regarding the conversion.
Upper_Krust said:
*Groans* You are probably right. But it does nothing to endear me to the project.
What if the cannibals were a sub-human species like Neanderthals?
That would most likely work. There'd need to be a tiny bit of mechanical finagling - probably a new subtype just for them, with a few tweaks - but it could be made to work.
Upper_Krust said:
That shows how far 3E is from my mind. Yes I should have converted them to ECL then dropped them 2/3rds to CR.
The Dire Crocodile ECL 13 becomes CR 8
Given that a standard
dire crocodile in Pathfinder is CR 9, that seems close enough (particularly since Pathfinder does seem to have upped the power-level slightly across the board).
Upper_Krust said:
Probably because that system doesn't differentiate between minions, standard monsters, elites and solos. A solo 4 is meant to be a greater threat than a minion 4.
I'm familiar with the rationale, and it probably does work best your way. Having said that, Challenge Ratings are more of a scientific art than an artistic science - it was your original breakdown that showed us that.
Deinos said:
It'd be kind of nice if Eternity Publishing products could actually be used with each other in the same campaign. PF isn't for everyone.
With the advent of its first 4E book, I think that ship has sailed.
Slightly more seriously though, most 3.X players have moved on to Pathfinder. I'm concerned that if a Pathfinder book is made, a separate 3.X book simply isn't worth the effort it'd take to give the few 3.X holdouts their own version.
Deinos said:
Are there really people who are going to get cranky over groups of really weird humans where the lowest hit die count is 3?
A book like this is going to be a niche product. The people who hear about, a buy, PDF products (with POD options) are the hardcore fans who go to forums and websites where such things are announced.
These same fans are the ones who know the game so well that they're familiar with its intricacies; hence, they'll spot a deviation from the normal course of the rules and, barring some sort of explanation, assume it's an error. Even with an explanation, they may not necessarily agree with a change was made if its radical enough.
Even if this isn't true for some hardcore fans, it's likely to be for the reviewers, who'll characterize the change as above, and who'll help to shape the potential buyers' opinions. If a name you trust is saying that the book makes some basic mistakes with things like Hit Dice, it can impact people's purchase intent.
So in other words...yeah.