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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AncientSpirits" data-source="post: 4160481" data-attributes="member: 55778">Great question. I've followed the 4th edition rules-lite and so forth. The binder never fit the magic system in 3.5 and the easiest path seems to continue along those lines. I was finishing the book when 4th Edition was announced, and incorporated some 4th edition concepts. For example, the 4 roles (leader, striker, defender, controller) are covered by the 8 classes. The Occult Priest and Warbinder are leaders, for example. Both have some healing, buffing of allies, ability to aid or motivate others, etc.The 4th edition binder will get 4-6 powers from a vestige (spirit). Some are per encounter, some are per day, and some are at will. Any of the current abilities that requires the binder to wait 5 rounds to use again will likely become per-encounter abilities. Some magic from 3.5 like fly and invisibility appear to have been nurfed or moved to higher levels. Rather than alter the powers currently mentioned for each spirit, I'll nurf them some of them or make them less accessible (flight moved from 1/5 rounds to daily power, etc).We have little (no?) idea yet how multi-classing will work, so I'm not sure the 8 classes in Secrets of Pact Magic will be ported over to the 4th edition. I suspect a few of them will, but not all, and we'll allow Wizard Training or other feats to handle the rest. Obviously the prestige classes are gone. But that's OK, because many of the their abilities can be options for the base classes instead. I've already made a list of how that will work. Only a few that are obviously high-powered like the Esoteric Traveler will become a Paragon Path instead.Yes, it'll be a fair amount of work. The amount of work to convert from one edition to another is an interesting way to measure how different two editions are. But I've got a plan and I'm a teacher, so when I have time, I have time.All this assumes there will in fact be a new license to allow 3rd parties to participate in 4th Edition. Ultimately, the bars that is raised might be too restrictive or expensive to overcome. Let's hope for the best!</blockquote>

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