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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 4219952" data-attributes="member: 957">Well, I have good news.  Concerns about "a couple levels" are completely unfounded.  As Wulf stated, the extra HP at 1st level can be a big deal.  Get past that and the difference presented so far is more like an average character vs. a reasonably optimized character.  They announced it from the word go with the Pathfinder name on it.  Why in the world would they keep supporting a game called Dungeons and Dragons when that game is moving on to a new edition?  If I were with Paizo, one of my goals would be to have people think of Pathfinder and "playing Pathfinder", not "playing D&D 3.5 using Paizo's Pathfinder stuff".But that said, I have not seen a single thing yet that I couldn't run with my 3.5 stuff completely on the fly, zero prep time.  The differences change the feel in a few ways, while maintaining the overall old D&D feel that some people are concerned 4E isn't staying with.  If you want to take your WotC 3.5 stuff and just keep running along with that base rule set, then two years from now you will be able to pick up a Pathfinder product and use it with your game with a real minimal effort.  You seem to be making Mount Everest out of a molehill.</blockquote>