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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4138709" data-attributes="member: 2205">Not to be the voice of dissent, but I thought the point was compatability with existing material?  Some basic SRD monsters would be great, so you can, if you want, use JUST the Pathfinder book (that fact that D&D still comes in 3 books instead of one is a personal pet peeve of mine and has been for years), but at some point you have to say, "look, if you change too much, then you've got a harder sell to convince people that this is still compatible."I think the bump up in character race power has officially crossed that threshold for me.  If I can't import shifters, changelings, warforged, all the FR subraces of elves, or whatever other variant race I want from 3.5 without it being underpowered relative to the Pathfinder basic races, then all my 3.5 material that includes variant races isn't compatable with Pathfinder anymore, in my view, which undermines the main draw of Pathfinder in the first place.  If fragility of low level PC's is a concern, a more elegant solution would be one that doesn't mess with the balance of Pathfinder races and classes and 3.5 races and classes.  A default chargen system that has a bit more oomph or something, regardless of the source of the race/class combo.  Like the hit point options tossed around in the Alpha document, although maybe broader in scope.Anyway, I've already said my piece in the other thread, but I don't know if Paizo is reading that or not.  I spend too much time online as it is to try and figure out how to navigate Paizo's website, so hopefully my feedback will be duly noted here.Other than that, I'm liking what I see quite a bit.</blockquote>

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