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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 5508915" data-attributes="member: 5834">I think it would be a fairly large pain to convert 3.x to Pathfinder. The classes are very different now as are many of the powers and the little perks. Not impossible. But the material isn't fully interchangeable without work.Every single class is very different from the old classes including many of the Prcs. And the disadvantages of multi-classing are substantial and not made up for with the perks in a PrC. There is a decided bias against Prcs in Pathfinder, very substantial if you use the Advanced Player's Guide.No synergy bonuses any longer.Skills are level by level. Flat amount. All skills are 1 point for one point. Only advantage class skills is +3 bonus.That's what a druid does.Wild shaping is simpler now. It goes off your base stats. Everything is clearly defined and easy to adjudicated. You no longer need to look in the monster book to see what happens with your stats or define your powers except to see what the specific elemental power (like burn, vortex) gets.I think it would be difficult to build a druid that does everything. But if you wanted to focus on wild shaping, you could make a pretty cool druid melee with more feats and a simpler understanding of how wild shaping works.I hope you're ready for all the stuff that comes with 3E unless you plan to do 15 point standard point buy. The prep time is still insane if you want to challenge a party that is built on rolled stats or anything other than 15 point point buy, near exact gold for gear distribution and the like.And the melee are worse monsters than they used to be. It will be  hard for even an optimized melee druid to hold the jockstrap of an optimized fighter, barbarian, or paladin. They are sickeningly strong in terms of damage dealing if they wield two-handed weapons and incredibly hard to kill.They gave physical damage classes a lot of power in Pathfinder. They are unbelievably beefy and dangerous. Certain choices are outstanding, the most notable being the following:1. Invulnerable rager barbarian with beast totem, come and get me, and superstition.2. Two-hander fighter. Nothing can withstand them for more than a few rounds if they hit.3. The archer is now probably the king of killing. The average high level archter will end up with 6 attacks a round without haste. They now have the equivalent of power attack called Deadly Aim. And if you make a dedicated fighter archer, you will do damage at range like no other class. You'll be the elf archer in Hawk the Slayer.4. The Inquisitor: This class gets too dang much.Be ready for a 3.x like game. A lot of stuff going on at high level. It's epic fantasy of the most extreme kind. High level Pathfinder characters are more like super heroes, even the melees.The wizard and priests could always do pretty epic stuff with magic at high level in D&D. But now the melees are beastly and can do as many things to mess up your encounters besides just damage.For example, I have a two-handed fighter with whirlwind attack and 10 foot reach that has this feat called stunning assault which allows him to hit for 40 plus damage everything within 10 feet of him stunning it. There are quite a few vicious feat combinations like that.So go into the change with eyes wide open. At high level, Pathfinder is as hard, if not more difficult, to run than 3.x was. You have to amp up the enemies to compete with the players insane capabilties.Mind you, I still like Pathfinder. It's a fun game. The Paizo APs are the best adventures I've ever read, even better than old school D&D modules. But it's 3.x with amped up melee characters and not a great deal of reduced power for arcane and divine casters (though no Spell Compendium which helps a great deal...at least not yet). If you liked the narrative style and spell strategy of 3.x, then you'll enjoy Pathfinder.</blockquote>

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