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<blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4003322" data-attributes="member: 36160">I don't see how anyone with a highly functioning imagination, enough free time to do the prep-work for third edition, and a mild amount of DM bribery (as necessary) could fail to carry over the narrative sense of the same character.Your gnome bard might suddenly have &quot;halfling wizard/warlord&quot; written on his character sheet, your elf fighter might become an elf rogue ('cause of all the two-weapon-fighting you did), and so on.Your necromancer or pacifist cleric might discover they have default access to abilities that they didn't before, and has lost access to some of their schticks as it was pushed up in level or not printed in the PHB: When it was pushed up in level, they may cry nerf, but 'twas a righteous nerf. When it wasn't published yet, there will almost certainly be something to give them access to similar abilities in the short term. Give them access to these abilities (this is the aforementioned bribery).Your fighter may discover he's not just attacking each round, but doing things.Your druid (now a wizard, or a warlock, or a cleric, at least in the short term: many things that a druid did were basically wizard-y anyway.) may miss his animal companion, or the wizard his famulus. That's actually the one that worries me most: I'll probably allow my wizard to just have a cat of sufficient intelligence as though it were a follower, and frankly losing my druid's menagerie will thrill me.If your druidic players like their familiars more than mine, just give them the frakking animal, and be aware of the extra screentime you're granting the player.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lackhand, post: 4003322, member: 36160"] I don't see how anyone with a highly functioning imagination, enough free time to do the prep-work for third edition, and a mild amount of DM bribery (as necessary) could [i]fail[/i] to carry over the narrative sense of the same character. Your gnome bard might suddenly have "halfling wizard/warlord" written on his character sheet, your elf fighter might become an elf rogue ('cause of all the two-weapon-fighting you did), and so on. Your necromancer or pacifist cleric might discover they have default access to abilities that they didn't before, and has lost access to some of their schticks as it was pushed up in level or not printed in the PHB: When it was pushed up in level, they may cry nerf, but 'twas a righteous nerf. When it wasn't published yet, there will almost certainly be something to give them access to similar abilities in the short term. Give them access to these abilities (this is the aforementioned bribery). Your fighter may discover he's not just attacking each round, but doing things. Your druid (now a wizard, or a warlock, or a cleric, at least in the short term: many things that a druid did were basically wizard-y anyway.) may miss his animal companion, or the wizard his [i]famulus[/i]. That's actually the one that worries me most: I'll probably allow my wizard to just have a cat of sufficient intelligence as though it were a follower, and frankly losing my druid's menagerie will [i]thrill[/i] me. If your druidic players like their familiars more than mine, just give them the frakking animal, and be aware of the extra screentime you're granting the player. [/QUOTE]

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