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My group is now using the Wounds/Vigor system, it's great. It's required some tweaks and house ruling, but we love it thus far.

Next on the agenda is trying out Armor as DR. I have a few questions, pretty simple ones, actually.

1) Has anyone tried both the Pathfinder version and 3.5 UA version? Which is preferred/makes the most sense?

2) My biggest beef with the Pathfinder Armor as DR is the 1-1 transfer of Natural Armor to DR. Easy example: Mature Adult Red Dragon.

AC drops from 32 to 8. Somewhat makes sense, it's a big creature, not extremely nimble. Pumps its DR from 10/magic to 34/addy. Is it balanced? Is it too much? Too easy to hit? It seems to make sense... you hit the dragon's scales, though the weapon failed to penetrate...
It's the only big thing I'm iffy on.

3) Has anyone else house-ruled the pathfinder version? If so, what type of rules? I'm thinking about ignoring the "attacker size to bypass" considering the attackers size/strength is typically factored into the base damage...

Thanks in advance.

4. The fact that Paul S. Kemp was supposed to write PF Novels, but nothing came out of it.

Did not know that... Now I'm slightly depressed. Kemp is one of my top 3 authors (a list that does not include Salvatore)

Mostly like the general updates to every class. Instead of a sorcerer being "you get a familiar... now have fun waiting for your spells," I get bloodline powers and whatnot. Same with fighter and other classes.

Archetypes are nice, keep you from having to take PrC's or multiclass. At the same time, Archetypes take the fun out of some old PrC's and multiclassing >.>

Scout, for example, was one of my favorite classes in 3.5. In my gaming group we allow old classes, any archetype, and any PrC (after conversion).

For example, if a monk wants to go Drunken Master archetype, no problem. If that same monk would rather go base monk and Drunken Master PrC from 3.5, also no problem.

Got into a discussion about this book with a friend the other day. Telling me that there shouldn't be so much "magic" in it. Ultimate Combat =/= ultimate martial >_>