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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 309526" data-attributes="member: 545">The original purpose of those rules was to offer a taste of 3e that preserved the &quot;feel&quot; of the 2e characters even if it caused complete havoc with play balance.For example, multiclassed PCs gained a huge boost in the original conversion notes -- potentially far outstripping a higher level single classed character.The conversion notes are a marketting tool for 3e, and were never written as a serious piece of game design.&nbsp; They just wanted people to give 3e a try before being dissuaded by whining pimple-faced kids who didn't like what happened to their Elven Ranger/Cavalier/Wizard with 18/00.&nbsp; So they threw a few bones to the munchkins and expected 2e would be quickly forgotten; soon pure 3e campaigns would dominate the day and the portability problems would disappear on their own.In my experience, 2e characters converted to 3e are exceedingly strong in terms of stats and wealth.&nbsp; So much so that we gave up and created 3e characters using point buy and standard wealth levels while keeping our character backstories.&nbsp; Some people just made new characters.&nbsp; We decided the conversion notes had some useful pointers but were worthless in terms of detail.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 309526, member: 545"] The original purpose of those rules was to offer a taste of 3e that preserved the "feel" of the 2e characters even if it caused complete havoc with play balance. For example, multiclassed PCs gained a huge boost in the original conversion notes -- potentially [i]far[/i] outstripping a higher level single classed character. The conversion notes are a marketting tool for 3e, and were never written as a serious piece of game design. They just wanted people to give 3e a try before being dissuaded by whining pimple-faced kids who didn't like what happened to their Elven Ranger/Cavalier/Wizard with 18/00. So they threw a few bones to the munchkins and expected 2e would be quickly forgotten; soon pure 3e campaigns would dominate the day and the portability problems would disappear on their own. In my experience, 2e characters converted to 3e are exceedingly strong in terms of stats and wealth. So much so that we gave up and created 3e characters using point buy and standard wealth levels while keeping our character backstories. Some people just made new characters. We decided the conversion notes had some useful pointers but were worthless in terms of detail. [/QUOTE]

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