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<blockquote data-quote="w_earle_wheeler" data-source="post: 3651970" data-attributes="member: 35955"><p>If you do 1st ed with 3e mechanics, go with OSRIC and the 1e Feats book mentioned below. Also, don't forget the Role-Aids and Judges Guild books!</p><p></p><p>Now, if you decide to do it the other way around (which you've already done or thought about doing)</p><p></p><p>You can choose to use only the monsters that appeared in first edition books (Monster Manual, Dragon Magazine, Fiend Folio). When running a 1e-flavor 3.5e game, you really only need the core three 3.5e books and maybe the DMG 2.</p><p></p><p>You can house-rule certain classes to be off-limits to demi-humans.</p><p></p><p>There used to be several 1e to 3e conversions of modules on enworld. I don't know if those files are still around, but if they are, you can convert them to 3.5.</p><p></p><p>Several of the Dungeon Crawl Classic modules are very close in theme and style to 1e modules. Also, there are a few updates to 1e materials, such as Wilderlands of High Fantasy and Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (3e).</p><p></p><p>The WotC website two 1e adventures converted to 3.5e: White Plume Mountain and Tomb of Horrors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="w_earle_wheeler, post: 3651970, member: 35955"] If you do 1st ed with 3e mechanics, go with OSRIC and the 1e Feats book mentioned below. Also, don't forget the Role-Aids and Judges Guild books! Now, if you decide to do it the other way around (which you've already done or thought about doing) You can choose to use only the monsters that appeared in first edition books (Monster Manual, Dragon Magazine, Fiend Folio). When running a 1e-flavor 3.5e game, you really only need the core three 3.5e books and maybe the DMG 2. You can house-rule certain classes to be off-limits to demi-humans. There used to be several 1e to 3e conversions of modules on enworld. I don't know if those files are still around, but if they are, you can convert them to 3.5. Several of the Dungeon Crawl Classic modules are very close in theme and style to 1e modules. Also, there are a few updates to 1e materials, such as Wilderlands of High Fantasy and Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (3e). The WotC website two 1e adventures converted to 3.5e: White Plume Mountain and Tomb of Horrors. [/QUOTE]
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