Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
Hmmm. It might be easy for skills (just use the SAGA / 4E approach), but what is with BAB vs AC?Kamikaze Midget said:They can go farther.
"Compatibility" means, basically, the ability to drop in older stuff and have it work. As long as they don't invalidate the AC of monsters and the features of PrC's, it'll be compatible.
Something like FFZ is supposed to be "compatible" in this sense, even though it uses some pretty dramatically different rules in some places.
They can't go all the way to "4e but with different things!", but they can get closer to fixing some of the underlying problems with 3e.
Bab increases proportional, but faster then level. Monster AC takes this into account. If you change to a "fixed bonus at level 1" you run into multi-classing problems and monster AC at low levels being effectively too low and at higher levels to high.
But maybe it won't really matter. AC for 3E monsters is more an art then science, so maybe the effects will be barely noticeable.