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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1334912" data-attributes="member: 1465">We may start gaming with me as DM and I was browsing throught my books for ideas on the setting and what to include as standard options for players (as always, this means classes, feats, spells...). I also borrowed a few FR books since the setting will probably be incorporating many themes together with the homebrew ideas.The point is that I want this time to be DMing with 3.5 rules, or at least with what is available through the SRD. At the same time I want to still use material from my old 3.0 books. I already have some problems.First thing I have started doing is to write down all the feats from those books (so far the 5 classbooks, FRCS, Magic of Faerun and Faith & Pantheons) into a single document to print out for the players, so that they have a broader choice. I am cutting out feats which have been rewritten (and I use the 3.5 version) or that do nothing within 3.5 rules, and that's ok since I have expected.But then there are also another type of feats which don't work well anymore: the ones which used to be scaled with core feats. Some examples:a) feats which used to give bonuses to skills - were balanced with Skill Focus +2, now +3b) feats which used to give bonuses to spell DC - were balanced with Spell Focus +2, now +1There are so many 3.0 feats of type a) that if used in 3.5 will be underpowered, and viceversa all the ones of type b) will be overpowered.I am especially having problems with the FR books, so much that I was tempted to simply ban the whole feats chapters altogether. FR is a powerful setting, but all the DC boost are ridiculous compared to 3.5. Would it be better to instead drop the 3.5 Spell Focus completely, since no one is going to take it compared with the old feats?</blockquote>

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