Has anyone converted the 3.5 AP PGs to PF? Is it a fairly straightforward conversion, just line up the new skills, or does it take a little more work than that for balance?
Has anyone converted the 3.5 AP PGs to PF? Is it a fairly straightforward conversion, just line up the new skills, or does it take a little more work than that for balance?
Generally, this is one of those "put as much work into it as you want to" things. I'm running Rise of the Runelords in Pathfinder, just mentally calculating CMB and CMD when appropriate, taking the average of Spot and Listen and turning into Perception, adding a feat or two, and adjusting NPC/enemy character class abilities as appropriate. I'd take the time to rebuild major bosses, but that would be about it.
Paizo released a 3.5 to Pathfinder Conversion Guide as a freebie that's handy to keep around for things that come up, such as negative levels, altered spells, poison, and so forth. But overall, I generally do such things on the fly.
Has anyone converted the 3.5 AP PGs to PF? Is it a fairly straightforward conversion, just line up the new skills, or does it take a little more work than that for balance?
I have been running RotRL for the last two years and it has run smoothly by doing the following: CMB/CMD, and skill equivalencies on the fly, and giving monsters max HP. On occasion for a big fight I may add a couple extra cronies, but nothing too major.
You can also find some conversions on d20pfsrd.
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Has anyone converted the 3.5 AP PGs to PF? Is it a fairly straightforward conversion, just line up the new skills, or does it take a little more work than that for balance?
Which elements of the Player's Guides are you referring to? The equipment? The campaign traits? The feats? The prestige class? Some or all of the above?
I'm about to start running Second Darkness with Pathfinder rules.
Re: NPC class levels and CR: In 3.5 CR equalled class level, while in PF CR equals class level -1. For encounters with NPCs, do y'all recommend I keep their level where it is and drop CR, or keep CR the same and raise their level?
At lower levels it is easy. At higher levels it takes considerably more time.
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Has anyone converted the 3.5 AP PGs to PF? Is it a fairly straightforward conversion, just line up the new skills, or does it take a little more work than that for balance?Which elements of the Player's Guides are you referring to? The equipment? The campaign traits? The feats? The prestige class? Some or all of the above?
This. Many of the items have already been updated to PFRPG, I'm pretty sure a good number of the feats were as well.