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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6250345" data-attributes="member: 17106">Insidious, maybe, but not important. Say you're porting over some 3.0 characters to 3.5 and you forget to switch around skills, and someone decides to roll an Innuendo check. No big deal. The underlying math means the same thing; it's just a skill that got folded up in 3.5. If you forget that your new 3.5 ranger has fewer hit points and more skills, it's not a big deal. If you don't understand the new weapon size rules, it doesn't matter, most of them work the same in practice. If the DM uses some monster stats from 3.0, no one's likely to notice that the number of feats is wrong.The big things: the meaning of DCs, the basic rates of numerical advancement, and most of the terminology are the same.The number of differences that really matter is pretty small. There's really nothing that would stop you from bringing a 3.0 character sheet to a 3.5 or even PF session. Whether one wants to call it a new edition or not is a matter of what definition one assigns to that word in this context, but I don't see that any of the 3.X games are really that different.Another thing, while we're on this. Now that there are all these versions of 3e out there, what percentage of groups ostensibly playing one of those games use significant rules from another? Every week we get a new thread about "can I use this 3.5 thing in Pathfinder?" There have been a few threads specifically on this topic, and as I recall people seem to mix 3e and PF pretty liberally. Which is certainly what the writers intended.</blockquote>

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