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How did you talk your players into switching to 3.5?
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<blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 1036359" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>You can take very different tactics on this. And to know which one really depends on how well you know your players</p><p></p><p>1) Emphasize all the things that are <em>better</em></p><p> (more smites for a paladin if you have a paladin in the group, additional ranger abilities if you have rangers, more spells, more feats, etc).</p><p></p><p>2) Emphasize all the things that are the <em>same</em></p><p> they are hesitant to change for the sake of change, well, emphaize that it really the same set of basic rules. They are simply incorporating some of the errata.</p><p></p><p>Again, which of those two tactics you take will depend on the people themselves... I can easily see how either of them would work in your general situation... it's the specific people that need convincing though.</p><p></p><p>If cost is a concern, I would highly recommend that you refer them back to the SRD or (if you are willing to go the extra mile) printout PDFs available from </p><p><a href="http://www.theothergamecompany.com/" target="_blank">http://www.theothergamecompany.com/</a></p><p>(under free stuff).</p><p>Thus, they can keep everything (the books and all) the printouts would just be the class, race, feat stuff.</p><p></p><p>The other aspect here is whether to do all at once or to go slowly... based on your past experiences, it seems that going slowly and incorporating a couple rules at a time has worked best for you... if you are taking the tactic of "it's really the same" then going slower would be the better way. If you are taking the tactic of "it's better" then making the changes quickly would be of benefit (to demonstrate what aspects are improved).</p><p></p><p>anyway, just my thoughts.</p><p></p><p>Hope things work out best for all involved <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fba827, post: 1036359, member: 807"] You can take very different tactics on this. And to know which one really depends on how well you know your players 1) Emphasize all the things that are [i]better[/i] (more smites for a paladin if you have a paladin in the group, additional ranger abilities if you have rangers, more spells, more feats, etc). 2) Emphasize all the things that are the [i]same[/i] they are hesitant to change for the sake of change, well, emphaize that it really the same set of basic rules. They are simply incorporating some of the errata. Again, which of those two tactics you take will depend on the people themselves... I can easily see how either of them would work in your general situation... it's the specific people that need convincing though. If cost is a concern, I would highly recommend that you refer them back to the SRD or (if you are willing to go the extra mile) printout PDFs available from [url]http://www.theothergamecompany.com/[/url] (under free stuff). Thus, they can keep everything (the books and all) the printouts would just be the class, race, feat stuff. The other aspect here is whether to do all at once or to go slowly... based on your past experiences, it seems that going slowly and incorporating a couple rules at a time has worked best for you... if you are taking the tactic of "it's really the same" then going slower would be the better way. If you are taking the tactic of "it's better" then making the changes quickly would be of benefit (to demonstrate what aspects are improved). anyway, just my thoughts. Hope things work out best for all involved :) [/QUOTE]
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