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Sintanan
2009-08-25, 10:50 PM
Is there any list of what changes need to be done to the classes, skills, feats, and spells in the OA to update it to 3.5? I remember seeing an update to 3.5 in a Dragon mag, but I'm currently away from my collection, so I can't just pull it off the shelf.

Sorry if this has came up before, but my forum-fu isn't quite mastered.

Sstoopidtallkid
2009-08-25, 10:53 PM
Dragon 318, IIRC, is where its found.

Sintanan
2009-08-25, 11:05 PM
But the main question is the article available for free as an web enhancement, or it is only in full legality as an article in an out-of-print mag?

TheThan
2009-08-25, 11:17 PM
Most of the classes in oriental adventures can be found in the complete series.

Complete warrior has the samurai (I know it sucks, bear with me here)
Complete arcane has the Wu Jen
Complete divine has the Shugenja and spirit shaman (which can work for an Asian shaman)
Complete adventurer has the ninja

There’s also a plethora of Asian themed prestige classes and whatnot scattered throughout the books.

Umael
2009-08-26, 12:35 AM
Do not use the CW Samurai.

Use the 3.0 Oriental Adventurers Samurai. It will work just fine.

TheThan
2009-08-26, 01:00 AM
Do not use the CW Samurai.

Use the 3.0 Oriental Adventurers Samurai. It will work just fine.

yeah, I used a bad example. use either the 3.0 Oriental adventures samurai or find another one. the complete warrior samurai is just a joke.

PId6
2009-08-26, 01:08 AM
Better yet, play a fighter and call it "samurai". Even better, play a warblade and call it "samurai". Fluff is quite interchangeable for most classes. A wizard that specializes in elemental spells is not much different from wu jen (besides sucking less). A cleric with the right domains and spell selection can call itself a shugenja (while again, sucking less). There's no real reason why an oriental campaign can't be done with the regular classes.

Sintanan
2009-08-26, 02:20 AM
Okay, so here's what I have going:

Barbarian (PHB)
Fighter (PHB)
Monk (PHB) [Freely multiclasses now]
Ninja (CAdv)
Rogue (PHB)
Samurai [Ancestral Daisho are considered honorable at 4th for DR purposes]
Scout (CAdv)
Shaman (OA, with 3.5 update)
Shugenja (CDiv)
Sohei (OA, with 3.5 update)
Socerer (PHB)
Wu Jen (CArc)


Thank you all for your help with this.