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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5267366" data-attributes="member: 50895">I think what is &quot;backwards compatible&quot; is being able to use a 3e adventure with almost no change whatsoever - I do tweak the BBEG and major NPCs to be more PF flavored, but most of the monsters I leave alone and the difference is hardly in existence.Regarding the classes there's a four page conversion rules that shows you how to tweak a 3.5 anything to better fit Pathfinder, and some of the socalled over-powered classes in the 3e splats are now fitting just right in PF. The conversion between old characters to new is slight at best. So I think Starman's point was right on. Its one thing to look at the rules and say its a different game. Play one session and you'll see its the same game.GPPS: to me the reasoning Paizo created PF is not to remake 3.5, but to have a system on the FLGS shelves that supports their APs, when WotC removed the 3e books from the distribution channels, their APs were doomed. You can't sell or even distribute products to an FLGS without a current system, so they had to make 3.5 current again, which is what they did. But since they had to reprint it anyway (and spend money doing it), might as well do some tweaks for improvement. I don't think they did it to change the game so much as keeping their business a viable one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 5267366, member: 50895"] I think what is "backwards compatible" is being able to use a 3e adventure with almost no change whatsoever - I do tweak the BBEG and major NPCs to be more PF flavored, but most of the monsters I leave alone and the difference is hardly in existence. Regarding the classes there's a four page conversion rules that shows you how to tweak a 3.5 anything to better fit Pathfinder, and some of the socalled over-powered classes in the 3e splats are now fitting just right in PF. The conversion between old characters to new is slight at best. So I think Starman's point was right on. Its one thing to look at the rules and say its a different game. Play one session and you'll see its the same game. GP PS: to me the reasoning Paizo created PF is not to remake 3.5, but to have a system on the FLGS shelves that supports their APs, when WotC removed the 3e books from the distribution channels, their APs were doomed. You can't sell or even distribute products to an FLGS without a current system, so they had to make 3.5 current again, which is what they did. But since they had to reprint it anyway (and spend money doing it), might as well do some tweaks for improvement. I don't think they did it to change the game so much as keeping their business a viable one. [/QUOTE]

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