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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1335169" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I am fine with the changes from 3.0 to 3.5. I am not fine with the fact that I cannot use my 3.0 books with 3.5 core rules without a lot of work.</p><p></p><p>But anyway it shouldn't be that much trouble with everything... at least I think that the 3.0 spells, monsters and prestige classes from non-core books still work quite well in 3.5.</p><p></p><p>- Spells are probably 99% compatible.</p><p></p><p>- Monsters just need to update DR, but it doesn't matter if the 3.0 creatures don't follow the precise rules on monster creation/advancement, at most they'll have a couple of less/more skills and feat but there's no need to update them really. I can use a monster from a 3.0 book at no change if I want.</p><p></p><p>- Prestige Classes are more trouble but mostly only on requirements that should be rewritten to fit 3.5. Some skills don't exist anymore or are easier to get, etc... Basically I will need to check if the minimum level to qualify is the same and if more or less the "cost" to qualify match. Fortunately, I won't probably really need to update a PrCl until a player tells me that he wants to take it; it will be enough for me to spend a few seconds on each PrCl before producing the "approved" list to the group.</p><p></p><p>Feats seem to me the most troublesome at the moment, also because it really helps the players to know beforehand which feats they can take. The trend seems to be that the feats which are not updated in 3.5 should simply be thrown in the garbage. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> </p><p></p><p>BTW: the whole thing doesn't matter with buying the 3.5 corebooks! My point is about using the 3.0 non-core material without having to buy the whole thing again. Rather than doing that, I'd just keep playing 3.0 until July 2005...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1335169, member: 1465"] I am fine with the changes from 3.0 to 3.5. I am not fine with the fact that I cannot use my 3.0 books with 3.5 core rules without a lot of work. But anyway it shouldn't be that much trouble with everything... at least I think that the 3.0 spells, monsters and prestige classes from non-core books still work quite well in 3.5. - Spells are probably 99% compatible. - Monsters just need to update DR, but it doesn't matter if the 3.0 creatures don't follow the precise rules on monster creation/advancement, at most they'll have a couple of less/more skills and feat but there's no need to update them really. I can use a monster from a 3.0 book at no change if I want. - Prestige Classes are more trouble but mostly only on requirements that should be rewritten to fit 3.5. Some skills don't exist anymore or are easier to get, etc... Basically I will need to check if the minimum level to qualify is the same and if more or less the "cost" to qualify match. Fortunately, I won't probably really need to update a PrCl until a player tells me that he wants to take it; it will be enough for me to spend a few seconds on each PrCl before producing the "approved" list to the group. Feats seem to me the most troublesome at the moment, also because it really helps the players to know beforehand which feats they can take. The trend seems to be that the feats which are not updated in 3.5 should simply be thrown in the garbage. :( BTW: the whole thing doesn't matter with buying the 3.5 corebooks! My point is about using the 3.0 non-core material without having to buy the whole thing again. Rather than doing that, I'd just keep playing 3.0 until July 2005... [/QUOTE]
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