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<blockquote data-quote="rabindranath72" data-source="post: 9187444" data-attributes="member: 34007"><p>Awesome thread! Good luck with your game, Yora!</p><p>Just for context, I share pretty much all your reservations regarding 3.0 vs. 3.5/PF. I agree the feel is definitely different; the things I like more: no pokemon warhorses for paladins; no spontaneous summoning spells for druids; no magical animal companions for druids and rangers; DR requiring +x weapons; plenty of dead levels; wizards with pre-determined opposition schools, d4HD kobolds, etc.</p><p></p><p>I just started a 3.0 campaign with my kids, and I decided to go with 3.0 core only (PHB, DMG, MM, MM2). I didn't use any house rules, but adopted the following options and variants in the DMG. I also used the revised XP tables and rules to transform CR into XP from Unearthed Arcana (it's just simpler to use than the CR system.)</p><p></p><p>1- Organic character creation</p><p>2- No prestige classes</p><p>3- Limited access to classes by race (possible choices per AD&D)</p><p>4- Multiclassing at 1st level only for demi-humans; possible later for everyone, but using training rules and in-campaign justification (i.e. you simply don't choose to multiclass willy-nilly as you gain a new level.)</p><p>5- Maximise skill ranks from 1st level</p><p>6- Gaining class abilities by training (1 week/2 levels; 1000 gp per week)</p><p>7- Spell research for wizards to gain new spells</p><p>8- Pacting with supernatural being for sorcerers to gain new spells</p><p>9- Research of songs for bards to gain new spells</p><p>10- Clobbered damage variant</p><p>11- Massive damage by size</p><p>12- Power components for magic item creation instead of XP, at the maximum cost (20xXP gp); most of these cannot be bought, though, but DO count towards the total acquired treasure. From past experience, this puts a big brake to PCs' manufacturing of items</p><p>13- Summoning of individual monsters</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rabindranath72, post: 9187444, member: 34007"] Awesome thread! Good luck with your game, Yora! Just for context, I share pretty much all your reservations regarding 3.0 vs. 3.5/PF. I agree the feel is definitely different; the things I like more: no pokemon warhorses for paladins; no spontaneous summoning spells for druids; no magical animal companions for druids and rangers; DR requiring +x weapons; plenty of dead levels; wizards with pre-determined opposition schools, d4HD kobolds, etc. I just started a 3.0 campaign with my kids, and I decided to go with 3.0 core only (PHB, DMG, MM, MM2). I didn't use any house rules, but adopted the following options and variants in the DMG. I also used the revised XP tables and rules to transform CR into XP from Unearthed Arcana (it's just simpler to use than the CR system.) 1- Organic character creation 2- No prestige classes 3- Limited access to classes by race (possible choices per AD&D) 4- Multiclassing at 1st level only for demi-humans; possible later for everyone, but using training rules and in-campaign justification (i.e. you simply don't choose to multiclass willy-nilly as you gain a new level.) 5- Maximise skill ranks from 1st level 6- Gaining class abilities by training (1 week/2 levels; 1000 gp per week) 7- Spell research for wizards to gain new spells 8- Pacting with supernatural being for sorcerers to gain new spells 9- Research of songs for bards to gain new spells 10- Clobbered damage variant 11- Massive damage by size 12- Power components for magic item creation instead of XP, at the maximum cost (20xXP gp); most of these cannot be bought, though, but DO count towards the total acquired treasure. From past experience, this puts a big brake to PCs' manufacturing of items 13- Summoning of individual monsters [/QUOTE]
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