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<blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1145004" data-attributes="member: 11581">Rebuilding is basically how one would convert a previous-edition character to 3/3.5E, yes.The entire 18/XX strength category would basically implode down into 18 strength +1 per 4 levels, so that fighter you converted was L16-20, then yes, 22-23 is about right. The fact that your fighter, as a result, did &quot;insane damage&quot;, is roughly par-for-the-course. Fighters do tend to do that....and need to, since hitpoints are that much more generous: Now even 12 con gets a bonus, whereas before, nothing short of 14 made a difference, and non-warriors had no business being above 16.Statwise, you'd basically just take your 2E rolled stats, remove old 2E racial mods, slap on 3E racial mods, and put in your adjusts for level. Not that much has really changed: Yes, your bonusses are now different, but so's the game.As far as classes and class abilities, that's basically totally incompatible, and you may as well just rebuild that from scratch up to your level. NWPs from 2E are basically untranslatable to 3E, which simply lacks any such equivalence. You could try using Craft/Profession skills, but this doesn't even fit in with all classes anymore, under core, non-house, rules, as craft/profession aren't even valid class skills for some classes that, in 1/2E, had NWPs....and in 1/2E, basically everyone had NWPs. Characters really had a good deal more character in that respect back then. NWPs were really goodies you had because you thought they were nifty, for the most part: Only a few really had the same effect that skills do for your characters today, and none of them involved shooting yourself in the foot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Norfleet, post: 1145004, member: 11581"] Rebuilding is basically how one would convert a previous-edition character to 3/3.5E, yes. The entire 18/XX strength category would basically implode down into 18 strength +1 per 4 levels, so that fighter you converted was L16-20, then yes, 22-23 is about right. The fact that your fighter, as a result, did "insane damage", is roughly par-for-the-course. Fighters do tend to do that....and need to, since hitpoints are that much more generous: Now even 12 con gets a bonus, whereas before, nothing short of 14 made a difference, and non-warriors had no business being above 16. Statwise, you'd basically just take your 2E rolled stats, remove old 2E racial mods, slap on 3E racial mods, and put in your adjusts for level. Not that much has really changed: Yes, your bonusses are now different, but so's the game. As far as classes and class abilities, that's basically totally incompatible, and you may as well just rebuild that from scratch up to your level. NWPs from 2E are basically untranslatable to 3E, which simply lacks any such equivalence. You could try using Craft/Profession skills, but this doesn't even fit in with all classes anymore, under core, non-house, rules, as craft/profession aren't even valid class skills for some classes that, in 1/2E, had NWPs....and in 1/2E, basically everyone had NWPs. Characters really had a good deal more character in that respect back then. NWPs were really goodies you had because you thought they were nifty, for the most part: Only a few really had the same effect that skills do for your characters today, and none of them involved shooting yourself in the foot. [/QUOTE]

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