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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkKestral" data-source="post: 2884479" data-attributes="member: 40100">I see most fighter/barbarian ideas taken up in the unfettered, warmain, ritual warrior, and totem warrior classes, so I don't see those as too much of a problem, but I might convert over the barbarian to AE, just for the sake of ensuring compatability.Monks become Oathsworn or ritual warriors. Wizards and sorcerors become magisters (I'd be personally ok with making INT OR CHA the casting stat for magisters, it just seems reasonable, to allow for the charismatic sorceror type or studious wizard types equally. However, CHA doesn't sound like it would make too many friends compared to INT, just because of the skillpoints) Clerics and druids would probably become greenbonds, with simple restrictions on the templates that they could take (no corrupt templated spells if you want to keep class abilities, unless you're going darkbond or some appropriate PrC) based on deities and whatnot.Paladins become champions, as I personally believe champions are much better in flavor and in variety than normal D&D paladins, excepting perhaps UA paladins, which offer that needed variety.That essentially just leaves the rogue and bard classes, which SORTA are both partially equivalented in the Akashic class. I would probably rebuild them within AE, as I would with the barbarian, just to ensure compatability beyond that.Halflings become Faen Quicklings, I would probably bump Half-Elves and Half-Orcs up a bit in power, due to the presence of AE Dracha and Litorians as LA+1 races, as Litorians get stats that would make most Half-Orcs drool with envy and without the number of penalties for a basic +1 LA. (I'd take a Litorian's LA over a Half-orc's lack of LA anyday) Gnomes and dwarves might get bumped down a notch in overall power.After that, you've essentially gotten rid of the PHBI material, and much of the need for a lot of different types of Complete X material, and most of the PHBII isn't needed either. Psionics is gone, the spell system used in AE is so much more flexible that it serves as a nice replacement, (I'm also considering building a spellpoint system that replicates AE's system, so that slots are essentially completely removed for all but for things such as caster level checks) and there's the Mind Witch class and Psionic casting style if you want something similar to d20 psionics. Spells would still need some conversion, but the presence of the AE spell treasury eases that problem for most of the 'classic' spells, and offers some new ones.All in all, AED&D is an interesting exercise, but not one I particularly would want to do without unifying the ruleset, both to prevent broken combos and to prevent party disparities in power that seem like they will show up both at low and high levels. Due to the drastically altered powercurve in AE, I would hesitate to allow a mixture of rules within my games. I play in a game that IS a mix, but I am getting the feeling the D&D players will possibly soon see why certain combos in AE are perhaps stronger than their D&D counterparts.</blockquote>

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