3.5 vs Pathfinder

[Soulkeeper]

While reading this adventure path, which my players picked as their first in Pathfinder, I see it says this was the last 3.5 AP, before moving to Pathfinder rules.

New to Pathfinder, I'm not 100% sure what this means for me as the DM. Is there anything specific that is going to throw me trouble running this?

I have 5 new players to Pathfinder, and I'm a new (Pathfinder) DM. We are coming from 4E, but long long ago we were heavy in 3.5E Eberron.

This Wednesday were doing character finalization and I hope to start us off on the into caravan fire scene, maybe into the Pugwampi Hunt

Half-Orc Monk
Halfling Rogue
Half-Elf Cleric
Elf Bard/Ranger
Elf Ranger/Fighter

[ShadowcatX]

You're not going to have the Pathfinder adjustments, like CMB and CMD figured for you, and pathfinder races and classes are slightly stronger than 3.5 equivalents (as a general rule, there are exceptions), but nothing to be too concerned about. Probably increase one or two monsters here and there and I suspect everything will be fine.

[Icyshadow]

Got ninja'd by Shadowcat it seems.

Also, nice thread name. Thought you were gonna try and start an edition war thread :D

[DJEternalDarkness]

Also, if you have questions about conversions, check out the d20pfsrd.org site, odds are they may have done the conversions for you.

[Cameronvk]

DJEternalDarkness wrote:

Also, if you have questions about conversions, check out the d20pfsrd.org site, odds are they may have done the conversions for you.

There is also another thread on this board that has done a great job of converting most of the monsters and NPC's over to pathfinder.

[Soulkeeper]

Ah OK, I'll look for the conversions and see what I find.

I found a tool called Combat Manager, that "seems" to have all the Pathfinder monsters, I'll have to look and see what it really has, if that's the case, I could pull them in for each battle and try it, although I'd prefer to keep just paper and dice at the table.

Thanks!

[DigMarx]

I just started using combat manager to keep track of fights and it seems to work fine. Adding the custom monsters from LoF is pretty easy too.

One thing to note about Legacy of Fire under PFRPG rules is that it uses the fast XP progression rather than medium, at least for the first book-and-a-half. I've just switched back to medium XP progression in House of the Beast because I realized the party will be level 9 (or higher) by the time they finish, when they're meant to be level 8. It's important to keep the PCs on fast through the first book because that last boss is pretty rough.

Zo

[Githzilla]

For conversion stats on most of the content in LoF a good place to check out is The Archives of Nethys website. Under the Conversion tab are stat conversions for creatures/NPCs for the first 5 books of the AP.

[Soulkeeper]

Thanks for the FYI DigMarx. I normally play without exp for most campaigns and adventure paths and just advance the characters per the adventure needs.