Quote Originally Posted by navar100 View Post
From a financial standpoint, if you bought the whole 3E library "starting over" with Pathfinder might see like a waste. However, it's not like you need the whole Pathfinder library.

You can get by with just the Core Rulebook, which is a PHB and DMG in one. There are significant changes to 3E stuff so that it feels like an update to the 3E system. You also get a sense of what to do to convert your 3E material. True, Pathfinder now has Magus and Oracle to use instead of Duskblade and Favored Soul. If you want to buy Advanced Players' Guide and Ultimate Magic, great, but if you don't and would prefer to stick with Duskblade and Favored Soul so as not to spend more money, you can tell what to do to adapt. Duskblade probably just needs an updated spell list. Favored Soul could be modeled after Pathfinder Sorcerer and have "soul lines". So as not to do much work, you can tag on a bloodline from Unearthed Arcana onto Favored Soul as class abilities and be done. To mirror Pathfinder Sorcerer more just come up with lists of bonus spells known depending on the bloodline.

If money isn't an issue, then Pathfinder is a good buy. It is an update to the 3E system and has continuing support. It has its fans and detractors; I'm a fan. It will never satisfy those who are enraged by 3E magic, but then nothing short of ending magic will do that (4E). Others take issue with changes in some combat feats. If upon reading them they also bother you, no harm is done to continue using the 3E version for those particular feats.
Or, you know, you can get PF stuff except adventure paths and campaign setting books for free on the PFSRD and PRD. And the PFSRD has the campaign setting PrCs and feats.