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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 5983731" data-attributes="member: 4789">My experiences have been positive, but they can be a lot work, depending on the level of merging included. The thing that is most important is to really understand the core system you are using, and what rules you are importing and what you intend to do with it. Grafting a mass combat system shouldn't be too bad for the overall game. You start adding classes, feats, spells and such you really have to watch what happens. Sometimes it cal be game breaking - sometimes it can be really cool*. You just have to understand the game you are playing and the rule you are adding well enough to get them to give you the result you want.As for my experience - I grafted Rolemaster magic onto Mythus to replace the Mythus magic system, and ran it for a couple of years. Pretty fun, but a lot of work.My current D&D game - we use pathfinder as a base, use most classes, races and spells from Monte's Arcana Undearthed, plus 3.5 stuff, and some elements from 1st edition, and ideas borrowed from 4th. Plus third party for all of the above (and introducing the 13th Age escalation die). But our game is a waahoo game where balance is not as important, and the players are fine with it.* The really cool - with bits of Pathfinder and D&D 3.x we have a warforged wizard - using pathfinder cantrip rules and the spell "launch bolt" (which allows the wizard to launch a crossbow bolt he is touching as if fired from the crossbow) allows the wizard to carry a buch of bolts and lauch them at will. Then the warforged had an "ammunition box" as a piece of built in equipment on his shoulder - which the GM rules as part of the character so it was "touching". The player put 50 bolts in it, and now the warforged can look like a mecha launching missles from a shoulder mounted launcher.</blockquote>

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