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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1572456" data-attributes="member: 172">I find the single biggest rules related problem is change in character abilities and creature potency. This causes assumed level of encounters to be wrong, and may make assumed challenges and obsticles trivial. For example, I recently ran Isle of dread. Dire wolves are significantly more challenging for the given level in 3e, and using allosauruses would doom the party. Assuming that non-thieves can't climb is another mismatch between editions that afforded my group an alternate route past some challenges.More significant to me, however, is not this, but other less rulesy things that you can typically find in modern modules that you wouldn't back then. NPC motives were often sparse or entirely absent, for example.I certainly don't think it was a good way to go about it. If you want PCs to look on helplessly, put them in a situation where they have to look on helplessly -- like scrying. Putting them in a situation where they could reasonably act but then stacking the deck is asking for either derailment of the plot or sour feelings on the players' part.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 1572456, member: 172"] I find the single biggest rules related problem is change in character abilities and creature potency. This causes assumed level of encounters to be wrong, and may make assumed challenges and obsticles trivial. For example, I recently ran Isle of dread. Dire wolves are significantly more challenging for the given level in 3e, and using allosauruses would doom the party. Assuming that non-thieves can't climb is another mismatch between editions that afforded my group an alternate route past some challenges. More significant to me, however, is not this, but other less rulesy things that you can typically find in modern modules that you wouldn't back then. NPC motives were often sparse or entirely absent, for example. I certainly don't think it was a good way to go about it. If you want PCs to look on helplessly, put them in a situation where they have to look on helplessly -- like scrying. Putting them in a situation where they could reasonably act but then stacking the deck is asking for either derailment of the plot or sour feelings on the players' part. [/QUOTE]

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