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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6531321" data-attributes="member: 6685730"><p>The big changes that I noticed between 3.0 and 3.5 were the elimination of facing (adoption of "space"), spontaneous casting for clerics, and as I'm about to mention, uniformity of monster gen.</p><p></p><p>If 4.0 was 3.5, Book of Nine Swords, and the Warlock in a blender, then 3.5 was 3.0 and the Miniatures Handbook in a blender.</p><p></p><p>Yes, switch. Your epic characters don't need to be remade, unless they had levels in Bard.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Monsters received a lot of the conversion. Since I stuck with the 3.0 MM, it was pretty easy to see that the monster generation system was pretty chaotic in 3.0, and became more uniform in 3.5</p><p></p><p></p><p>That process inspired me to write a free RPG. Don't worry, the money you've spent on 3rd ed. books is not wasted so long as you reference those books and allow the endless good ideas to inspire your roleplaying, no matter what game it is. My 3rd books sit proudly where I can easily reach them, and sometimes just looking at their covers makes ideas happen. But I'm not about to start playing a 3.5 game; I don't want to inspect another prestige class to see how broken it is, look through three different core books to find a rule about summoned monsters, or argue about how much cover bonus I was supposed to get because I was 40 feet from low cover while my opponent was only 20 feet, but he moved during his turn and the shot could possibly have happened in the middle of his movement instead of at the end.</p><p></p><p>Thank goodness for 5e!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 6531321, member: 6685730"] The big changes that I noticed between 3.0 and 3.5 were the elimination of facing (adoption of "space"), spontaneous casting for clerics, and as I'm about to mention, uniformity of monster gen. If 4.0 was 3.5, Book of Nine Swords, and the Warlock in a blender, then 3.5 was 3.0 and the Miniatures Handbook in a blender. Yes, switch. Your epic characters don't need to be remade, unless they had levels in Bard. Monsters received a lot of the conversion. Since I stuck with the 3.0 MM, it was pretty easy to see that the monster generation system was pretty chaotic in 3.0, and became more uniform in 3.5 That process inspired me to write a free RPG. Don't worry, the money you've spent on 3rd ed. books is not wasted so long as you reference those books and allow the endless good ideas to inspire your roleplaying, no matter what game it is. My 3rd books sit proudly where I can easily reach them, and sometimes just looking at their covers makes ideas happen. But I'm not about to start playing a 3.5 game; I don't want to inspect another prestige class to see how broken it is, look through three different core books to find a rule about summoned monsters, or argue about how much cover bonus I was supposed to get because I was 40 feet from low cover while my opponent was only 20 feet, but he moved during his turn and the shot could possibly have happened in the middle of his movement instead of at the end. Thank goodness for 5e! [/QUOTE]
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