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Message: <blockquote data-quote="enrious" data-source="post: 5768448" data-attributes="member: 2126">I wouldn't use all of the 3.x stuff (but that's because there was some bad 3.x stuff) but I wouldn't shy away from using something I liked in 3.x.There's nothing magical about the Pathfinder books - Ultimate Combat has elements that are as bad as anything in 3.5 and Ultimate Magic is only somewhat better, so just having the Pathfinder logo isn't a panacea against bad.Certainly no more than the 3.x logo was a sign of horrid.But as was said to you in your other thread, get used to Pathfinder before importing certain elements from 3.5 (although Monsters are something that you could likely start doing from the beginning, although the ones in the Bestiaries are well done they don't cover everything)Generally yes - to start with, unlike most 3.x classes, Pathfinder PCs get new abilities every level.   Note that the idea was that as 3.x kept going, released classes were suffering from power creep, so classes at the end of the cycle were more powerful than ones in the Player's Handbook.  Pathfinder wanted to bump up the core powers to put them on par with those latter classes. Not really a step up in power - in fact, the introduction of Archetypes arguably (especially with later books) introduces a step-down in power.As above, some steps down in power if anything.  Honestly if you're worried about getting used to a certain power level, then CRB + APG is what you need to worry with.</blockquote>

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