malak wrote:
On the other hand, if you have a 3.5 monster, you straight up cannot use it with PF, or the other way around, without recomputing stats. 4EE will be able to use any 4E monster as-is.
And what about the fact that PF races get better ability bonuses, and extra health and skill points? E.g. Barbarians, Clerics and Rogues are different enough in PF that many PrC requirements would have to be rewritten or the PrCs itself adapted.
Yeah. While they've now officially stated that the stats in the Monster Manual I are basically
wrong, they are still the correct
kind of numbers to play in an Essentials game. They don't do nearly enough damage and they have too many hit points and no one
likes them. But despite the poor design, they do in fact have numbers in for all the defenses and attributes that an Essentials character would need to fight one.
A 3.5 Monster, whether it is a sample of good monster design or bad, simply does not have the correct labels on the numbers on its writeup to participate in a fight with a Pathfinder character. Ergo, Essentials is more compatible with 4e than Pathfailure is with 3.5.
-Username17