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All my opinion...
1) How do we handle a melee combatant with Cleave? Do we treat it as the D&D 3.5 version, or the Pathfinder version?
Pathfinder version.
2) Do NPC clerics get their Channels (negative or positive energy)? Does this replace turn/rebuke undead, or do we just use the 3.5 versions of turn/rebuke undead?
v.3.5 version. I think...
3) On the chronicle, if a magic item listed does not exist in Pathfinder (such as an Amulet of Good Health), what do we do? Convert it to the Pathfinder version, cross it off, or what?
Convert it to the Pathfinder version. Gloves of dexterity should become a belt of incredible dexterity, for example.
4) If a monster in 3.5 was immune to criticals or precision damage, should we use the Pathfinder or 3.5 rules (undead, elementals, constructs)?
Pathfinder version.
The rule of thumb I've used is that if a statblock refers to a specific v.3.5 rule (e.g. rebuke undead, bardic knowledge) then use that. If it refers to something that spans editions (feats, spells, weapons, creature type/subtype) then use the Pathfinder version. YMMV...
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I wouldn't bother trying to use turn/rebuke undead with an NPC. Just don't bother trying to channel and you won't notice the difference.
Yeah, I thought about that.
However, in this case, the cleric I am talked about has tactics that he heals his undead. Granted, he can still use inflict wounds spells, but I thought that the "heal" version of his negative channel would do that quite well.
If it is forbidden to add in the channels that he would have gotten in Pathfinder, that's fine. I just want to make sure that this is the case.
Thanks everyone for the help.
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In the meantime, scenarios are to be run with minimal changes by GMs, limited to adding CMB/CMD scores to NPCs and monsters and using newly combined skills such as Stealth and Perception instead of Move Silently and Spot. If a creature appears in the scenario that also appears in the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2, or Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 and maintains the same CR between both rules sets, you may use the Pathfinder RPG stats in place of the 3.5 stats. This is the only substitution allowed in these scenarios
So, no channel energy for clerics in Season 0.
In the meantime, scenarios are to be run with minimal changes by GMs, limited to adding CMB/CMD scores to NPCs and monsters and using newly combined skills such as Stealth and Perception instead of Move Silently and Spot. If a creature appears in the scenario that also appears in the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2, or Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 and maintains the same CR between both rules sets, you may use the Pathfinder RPG stats in place of the 3.5 stats. This is the only substitution allowed in these scenariosSo, no channel energy for clerics in Season 0.
Whoah! Is that true? I've definitely messed that up a few times then.
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4) If a monster in 3.5 was immune to criticals or precision damage, should we use the Pathfinder or 3.5 rules (undead, elementals, constructs)?
Monsters with a Pathfinder equivalent of equal CR are to be replaced with the Pathfinder version. Others use their 3.5 statblocks.
HOWEVER, unless a monster's stat block explicitly states that it's immune to crits/sneak attack, then it becomes a matter of the rules surrounding those topics, not a matter of the creature's stat block. So an undead creature using 3.5 stats will still be susceptible to crits/sneak attack unless its statblock actually says otherwise. Changing that wouldn't be running the 3.5 statblock, it would be changing the game rules.
At least, that's the way I see it.
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We're expected to have the D&D 3.5 Monster Manual to run the creatures. But I'm not sure we also need the 3.5 Players' Handbook and DMG. Four years into the Pathfinder RPG, I'm not sure how much we should be running these adventures in an unfamiliar game system.
I would be surprised if GMs who have been introduced to the hobby through the Pathfinder RPG, who have never run D&D 3.5, would be asked to learn that game system to run Season 0 NPCs. That is, if sleep is a full-round spell for the PCs, I think that it ought to be a full-round spell for the NPCs as well. (As Paz says, Cleave ought to work the same for both of them, too. Since NPCs get CMB and CMD, their combat maneuvers should follow the Pathfinder rules.)
So, I guess I'm of the opinion that it's weird running an NPC cleric with a whip such that the whip uses Pathfinder rules and her clerical domains use D&D 3.5 rules, particularly around newer players who are still trying to learn Pathfinder rules.
Barring any options to re-release Season 0 adventures in an updated form, I would advocate a change of campaign policy, to run the NPCs as Pathfinder characters of the same level, in all respects.
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TetsujinOni, I'm not trying to be snide, but I'm concerned: would you run these adventures under the 3.5 ruleset?
(With undead being immune to critical hits, and 8th level PC clerics with the Magic domain being able to use arcane items as if they were 4th-level wizards? Would PC sorcerers lose all their bloodline abilities?)
I'm just concerned that players have some understanding about how their characters work and reasonable expectations about how their enemies work. If they expect that the gnoll who just demonstrated it has Cleave is going to get a free second strike every time it hits, or that the evil cleric is going to be able to channel negative energy, and they make decisions based on those errors, I don't think they're getting a fair shake.
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Jack, I think that TetsunjinOni is suggesting that keeping a D&D 3.5 character untouched, while allowing the PCs to use all the player-goodies in the Pathfinder rules-set, makes the adventures easier than the original authors had intended.
(The human sorcerers who first stepped foot onto the deck of the Hydra's Fang didn't have bloodline powers, had only d4 hit dice, and didn't have a floating +2 to add to their attributes.)