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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4928947" data-attributes="member: 15538">1. Class rebalancing- Fighters no longer have to scour two or three sourcebooks to get the best feats. Instead, they get Weapon Training ladled on every five levels to keep them competitive, and there are plenty of good tactical options in the core rulebook. The new skill system is also fighter friendly.- Sorcerer bloodlines. Nuff said.- Wizards. If you did nothing else, stealing the new rules for specialist wizards would be worth doing. The spell-like abilities they get also give them parity with sorcerers at lower levels in terms of staying power.- Rogues. None of this waiting till 10th level to rock business. - Paladins, rangers, and druids all closer to their archetype and simpler.- Bards and barbarians have more flexibility in using their abilities.2. SkillsThis is another thing worth stealing. In addition to a slimmer more game-friendly skill list, the new approach to class skills makes it less punishing for a character to dabble in an outside skill or two, and prerequisites for prestige classes are less torturous. 3. Combat ManeuversAgain, this is a sub system worth stealing on its own. Unified and simplied maneuvers system that does pretty much everything the 3.5 version does, but with less hassle in most cases. 4. It will pay divideds nowHonestly, I wasn't planning on converting my current high level 3.5 campaign but I am pretty much convinced I am going to now. It will save time every time skill ranks are spent, and every time a monster grapples. Monsters with difficult defenses won't put party members out of action. And it will save me a ton of time every time I calculate XP. I am really looking forward to ditching the CR/CL/XP table and never looking at it again. 5. The downsides are minimalI might have to update a PrC or two, and if I want to look closely at the spell lists, some things have changed. But I don't have to care.</blockquote>

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