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fables 12-30-03, 04:25 PM	What a pain! I have the recomended conversion rules from WoC to go from ver2 to ver3. I don't like them though, neither do my players. Specifically for multi class characters. EX fighter/cleric/mage. they end up losing most of there spell casting abilities. we have been playing with these characters for over 10 years. they are all in the low teens and thats pretty powerful. but not when you convert them to 3.5 . any other suggestions out there.
satyrgrrrrl 12-30-03, 04:36 PM	My first suggestion is to start over with new characters. But, I could understand that you'd be atttached to them after 10 years. Maybe check out the Epic rules (they are featured in the 3.5 DMG, and in the Epic Level Handbook)? After 10 years of playing, I'd think there would be a case to say the characters are Epic, and then you could have a Fighter/Cleric/Wizard with appropriate spellcasting and combat abilities. Maybe. I'll admit I'm not the most familiar with 2nd ed. Hope that helps. :angel:
Leagle 12-30-03, 07:17 PM	My suggestion is also make new ones -my last group made the change before I show'd up, and had no idea who did what, as they all changed abilities.
Ottergame 12-30-03, 07:52 PM	I'd either stick with 2ed edition, or redo your characters for 3rd. There are some presitge classes that will give ya spell casting abilities and combat abilities, or arcane and divine spell casting growth at the same time, but they take some planning to get everything set. Look around enough, and you'll be able to recreate your characters to be about as powerful as your old ones. If you REALLY want to do 3rd edition right, you're best bet is to start over and work your way back to where you were.
Stuntman 12-31-03, 12:09 AM	Triple class characters like the Cleric/fighter/wizard and some double class characters lose a lot of power when converted to 3E from 2E. However, in 3.5, there are a number of prestige classes that aid in multi-classing. For your character, I would recommend you make a fighter 1/cleric 3/wizard 3/mystic theurge X. That's as close as you can get to a 2E cleric/fighter/wizard. Another alternative is to take mostly levels in one of those three classes and focus primarily in only one class. For example, you can focus primarily in your fighter class and splash one or a few levels of cleric and wizard. You can examine your character and see if he is more cleric, fighter or wizard and focus on that class and splash a few abilities from the other classes. I've had to convert my 2E fighter 4/mage 4 to a 3E fighter 4/wizard 1. I found that I was more fighter than wizard, so I decided to have more fighter levels and just a bit of wizard. I found that the new 3E character actually is closer to the way I play it than the 2E character. Yes, I do lose 3 levels of wizard and all of my 2nd level spells, but I liked my 3E character much more. The one thing I did gain was more hit points.
Edymnion 12-31-03, 12:12 AM	Like everybody else said, you're better off building a new character from scratch that matches the flavor of your old character, then using them as the port. Line by line transfers from 2e to 3e only really work for single classed characters because of the drastic change in how multiclassing works. Far, far better idea to port over the character and not the character sheet.