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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 826386" data-attributes="member: 7394">Of course it is entirely your decision whether or nor to buy the new books. Having been a poor college kid myself once, I know what its like to scrape together your last few pennies every month for some luxury items after bills have been paid and something passing for food is in your cupboards. Nevertheless, many of your arguments are based on assumption.Its been said before and will be said long after this - your 3E books are still completely usable after the revision. You might just have to go on faith here, but the changes are not so huge that prestige classes, spells, feats, and magic items from the expansion books will stop working the way they did before. Most of the changes will simply be correcting things that were broke before, including erratta, and clarifying confusing portions - and there are many, many unclear and confusing portions of 3E right now.I deal with the broken stuff in 3E on a daily basis. While 3E is a much nicer, sleeker, easier to understand system than 2E, it still has MANY elements that are VERY BROKEN. Harm is just the tip of the iceberg. Many of the fixes are already available in erratta, but there are numerous other issues such as game mechanics that just don't see each other, spells that don't take other spells into account despite their effects potentially influencing one another... I'm not even going to go into the problems that arise because of certain feat combinations and other power gamer abuses that occure on a regular basis.Like I said before, I respect your decision to not buy the new books due to financial reasons, but at the very least you should really get ahold of the SRD once its available just for the clarifications. If you need to find a new group to game with you may need the books so that you're playing by the same rules as them, and if nothing else, most people end up having to replace their core books after using them for a few years. When replacements become necessary, the revision will still be there.Just out of curiosity, why would you want to pick up the one book that will most likely contain the least number of changes?</blockquote>

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