Steel_Wind
Legend
I think there are two schools of thought on this – and as they are radically different approaches to Pathfinder, it is not surprising that you will get radically different answers:
School #1: D&D 3.5 Was Broken by Way Too Many Splat Books: This group of 3.5 adherents may have been once enchanted by 3.5, but as the game wore on and WotC printed more and more accessory books on a monthly basis, members of this school became less and less happy with 3.5. They see Pathfinder as a way to jump to the next iteration of the game while avoiding the power creep inherent in the 3.5 splat era.
Members of this School tend to be against importing the same material into Pathfinder that they are trying to escape from in the first place.
School #2: I have $3,500.00 Worth of 3.5 material and I Still Want to Use It: Members of this School tend to have shelves and shelves full of 3.xx material and unlike the members of School #1, they still want to use some of it when playing Pathfinder. As they want to justify still using this material, they tend to be more upbeat and supportive of attempts to use 3.xx material with Pathfinder.
Disclosure: I’m a member of School #1.
My Take: While I’d like to leave as much of 3.5 splat behind in the rear-view mirror, the fact is, there isn’t much to converting material from 3.5 to Pathfinder. Most of it, frankly, you can use straight out of the book without any modification whatsoever.
If you want to use BoVD? Do it. You can use it straight up. If you want to convert some of the PrCs – you can, but using them straight out of the book is not going to break anything if they are essentially for NPC purposes.
Whether you should do such a thing is a different question. But my answer to “should” is going to be very different than somebody else’s – let alone yours.
You “should” do whatever it is at your game table that you and your players enjoy. If that’s using 3.5 material in Pathfinder – more power to you. Pathfinder was created to facilitate that capability with minimal fuss.
School #1: D&D 3.5 Was Broken by Way Too Many Splat Books: This group of 3.5 adherents may have been once enchanted by 3.5, but as the game wore on and WotC printed more and more accessory books on a monthly basis, members of this school became less and less happy with 3.5. They see Pathfinder as a way to jump to the next iteration of the game while avoiding the power creep inherent in the 3.5 splat era.
Members of this School tend to be against importing the same material into Pathfinder that they are trying to escape from in the first place.
School #2: I have $3,500.00 Worth of 3.5 material and I Still Want to Use It: Members of this School tend to have shelves and shelves full of 3.xx material and unlike the members of School #1, they still want to use some of it when playing Pathfinder. As they want to justify still using this material, they tend to be more upbeat and supportive of attempts to use 3.xx material with Pathfinder.
Disclosure: I’m a member of School #1.
My Take: While I’d like to leave as much of 3.5 splat behind in the rear-view mirror, the fact is, there isn’t much to converting material from 3.5 to Pathfinder. Most of it, frankly, you can use straight out of the book without any modification whatsoever.
If you want to use BoVD? Do it. You can use it straight up. If you want to convert some of the PrCs – you can, but using them straight out of the book is not going to break anything if they are essentially for NPC purposes.
Whether you should do such a thing is a different question. But my answer to “should” is going to be very different than somebody else’s – let alone yours.
You “should” do whatever it is at your game table that you and your players enjoy. If that’s using 3.5 material in Pathfinder – more power to you. Pathfinder was created to facilitate that capability with minimal fuss.
