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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 1054450" data-attributes="member: 203">While I won't be switching whole hog to 3.5 there are a few rule changes I do like.&nbsp; Namely the new Bard, Ranger and Druid and Damage Reduction.&nbsp; These are all great IMO.&nbsp; Someone mentioned that many spell-like powers were removed from the Demon &amp; Devils.&nbsp; I hadn't noticed that and was planning on buy the MM because I like the new formatting.&nbsp; I only saw one split (ie you have to flip the page to see the rest of it) stat block and that is a great improvment,&nbsp; Some of the artwork in the MM is also improved (altough they kept that crappy picture of the Vampire from the 3.0 edition) and I love the inclusion of the Inevitables, Githyanki and Githzari.&nbsp; I also liked how 'classed' creatures were included with some critters (see the Ogre and Mind Flayer - good job).&nbsp; I guess I still will get the MM 3.5 - I have 2 copies fo every other MM for all the other editons, why not this one too? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Now the thing that droves me nuts about this new edition (aside from the fact that the game I play in is forcing me to change over to it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />&nbsp; ) are all the little changes to the spell lists and descriptions.&nbsp; These are incredibly annoying as they seem , to me, to be change for the sake of change.&nbsp; Shocking Grasp used to be a useful quick damage spell even up to high levels (good average damage potential for a 1st level spell).&nbsp; Now you betterbe lucky to get anything out of it.&nbsp; Command now limited to a set number of possiblities?&nbsp; Feh!&nbsp; Thanks for taking out any chance of originality.&nbsp; I won't even go into the dismantling of Haste and the Buff spells but I will ask if anyone's campaign was unbalanced becasue the Fighter could get a +2-4 on his attack and damage rolls?Overall Monster Manual = goodPHB &amp; DMG (did I mention the now useless NPC tables?) = teh suck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 1054450, member: 203"] While I won't be switching whole hog to 3.5 there are a few rule changes I do like. Namely the new Bard, Ranger and Druid and Damage Reduction. These are all great IMO. Someone mentioned that many spell-like powers were removed from the Demon & Devils. I hadn't noticed that and was planning on buy the MM because I like the new formatting. I only saw one split (ie you have to flip the page to see the rest of it) stat block and that is a great improvment, Some of the artwork in the MM is also improved (altough they kept that crappy picture of the Vampire from the 3.0 edition) and I love the inclusion of the Inevitables, Githyanki and Githzari. I also liked how 'classed' creatures were included with some critters (see the Ogre and Mind Flayer - good job). I guess I still will get the MM 3.5 - I have 2 copies fo every other MM for all the other editons, why not this one too? :D Now the thing that droves me nuts about this new edition (aside from the fact that the game I play in is forcing me to change over to it :mad: ) are all the little changes to the spell lists and descriptions. These are incredibly annoying as they seem , to me, to be change for the sake of change. Shocking Grasp used to be a useful quick damage spell even up to high levels (good average damage potential for a 1st level spell). Now you betterbe lucky to get anything out of it. Command now limited to a set number of possiblities? Feh! Thanks for taking out any chance of originality. I won't even go into the dismantling of Haste and the Buff spells but I will ask if anyone's campaign was unbalanced becasue the Fighter could get a +2-4 on his attack and damage rolls? Overall Monster Manual = good PHB & DMG (did I mention the now useless NPC tables?) = teh suck. [/QUOTE]

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