Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Silveras" data-source="post: 1244452" data-attributes="member: 6271">I fear you have no choice but to go case-by-case. Some things are kind of obvious, and covered in the 3.5 Update Guide (like changing DR for monsters). Other things are not so obvious, and require the DM to read, evaluate, and decide. The WotC designers did say that most 3.0 materials would be usable with 3.5 &quot;as is&quot;. Anything that did not get pulled into the PH, DMG, or MM for 3.5 was not so broken that they felt they had to fix it. That's also why they said they were not planning on doing &quot;Sword &amp; Fist revised&quot;, &quot;Defenders of the Faith revised&quot;, and so on. That being said, it is quite true that many PrCs and Feats in the Complete Warrior are re-writes of ones that were in Sword &amp; Fist or other &quot;splat&quot; books. That may at first seem a contradiction, but Complete Warrior remains purely optional, just as the &quot;splat&quot; books are. If you have S&amp;F and the other &quot;splat&quot; books, you have access to some material that is not in CW; if you have CW, you have access to some material that is not in the &quot;splats&quot; (yes, there is a good chunk of new material). The advantage to re-writing some material is that it allowed them to fix some errors in the &quot;splats&quot; (S&amp;F has a LOOOONG errata file) and update some things some DMs might have found challenging. Yes, each Feat, PrC, magic item, and so on in the &quot;splats&quot; needs to be looked at individually by the DM, and judged on how well it will work in his/her game; and changed if it needs to be. That was true before 3.5, as well, so I don't think there is any escape from that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silveras, post: 1244452, member: 6271"] I fear you have no choice but to go case-by-case. Some things are kind of obvious, and covered in the 3.5 Update Guide (like changing DR for monsters). Other things are not so obvious, and require the DM to read, evaluate, and decide. The WotC designers did say that most 3.0 materials would be usable with 3.5 "as is". Anything that did not get pulled into the PH, DMG, or MM for 3.5 was not so broken that they felt they had to fix it. That's also why they said they were not planning on doing "Sword & Fist revised", "Defenders of the Faith revised", and so on. That being said, it is quite true that many PrCs and Feats in the Complete Warrior are re-writes of ones that were in Sword & Fist or other "splat" books. That may at first seem a contradiction, but Complete Warrior remains purely optional, just as the "splat" books are. If you have S&F and the other "splat" books, you have access to some material that is not in CW; if you have CW, you have access to some material that is not in the "splats" (yes, there is a good chunk of new material). The advantage to re-writing some material is that it allowed them to fix some errors in the "splats" (S&F has a LOOOONG errata file) and update some things some DMs might have found challenging. Yes, each Feat, PrC, magic item, and so on in the "splats" needs to be looked at individually by the DM, and judged on how well it will work in his/her game; and changed if it needs to be. That was true before 3.5, as well, so I don't think there is any escape from that. [/QUOTE]

Verification