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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 4726822" data-attributes="member: 59096">The amount of compatibility is highly subjective, depending mostly upon how much respect your game has for RAW. I've seen a lot of games that were very loose in terms of RAW, and didn't sweat the small details. Players didn't powergame, and there were lots of houserules and/or 3rd party books used with little regard for how everything tied together. I've seen other games based more on a system mastery/CharOp vibe, where the little math and synergies really matter, or a heavily houseruled game that still respects RAW and cares how the math behind the system works. Its all a question of how easily you want Pathfinder to fit together with 3.5E. If you don't care so much about a clean fit, its great. If you want the numbers to add up and for everything to work seamlessly, it isn't. Let us not forget the 3.0-3.5 conversion. While some people still used their 3.0E splats, for the vast majority of D&D players, 3.5E largely invalidated people's 3.0E collections. If Pathfinder is being compared to upgrading to 3.5E from 3.0E, I don't expect a seamless transition.</blockquote>