Old Main book vs Ulitmate

Mithrindir · Unread post by **Mithrindir** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:25 am

Is there anywhere I can find the changes and/or additions to the main book that is in the Ultimate edition? Or should I just basically have the two book open and go page by page and see what is different. See We are 2 sessions in to a campaign from old mainbook but may like to switch to Ultimate. We would like to quickly see what is different in our characters, stats, game play what ever.. the rest of it we will just get as we play.

Dustin Fireblade · Thu May 17, 2007 10:29 am

Many of the OCC's are tweaked.

Ranged combat is different (still recognizable though)

Several skills are added, some skills expanded.

Low attribute scores have penalties.

If you have time, I'd just go ahead and fully update the character's.

Greyaxe · Unread post by **Greyaxe** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:43 am

The biggest thing in my opinion is the changes to the secondary skills selections. Instead of having the same selections as OCC related everybody gets to select from a pool of secondayr skills listed on page 300 of RUE. all your characters will need to be edited somewhat.

Ridley · Unread post by **Ridley** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:50 pm

I tend to think of the Ultimate edition as a players handbook. It has enough fluff text init for the new guy to understand, and has very little that the GM can use besides the campaign setting info.

As for the Old Edition, i tend to think of it as a GMs book, it assumes that you know the rules, and gives you a section that you cna ise to makes a game.

Carl Gleba · Unread post by **Carl Gleba** » Thu May 17, 2007 6:53 pm

Sorry Mithrindir. There were a lot of changes and updates. I think all of the O.C.C.'s were changed in someway. There is no official listing of the changes that I'm aware of.

Welcome to the boards. :ok:

Carl

Mack · Unread post by **Mack** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:17 pm

Mithrindir wrote:Is there anywhere I can find the changes and/or additions to the main book that is in the Ultimate edition? Or should I just basically have the two book open and go page by page and see what is different. See We are 2 sessions in to a campaign from old mainbook but may like to switch to Ultimate. We would like to quickly see what is different in our characters, stats, game play what ever.. the rest of it we will just get as we play.

I suggest either completely updating all the characters per R:UE (practically a re-roll) or simply ignoring R:UE and sticking with the orginal book.

Chuck McDaniel · Sat May 19, 2007 9:40 pm

Mack wrote:
Mithrindir wrote:Is there anywhere I can find the changes and/or additions to the main book that is in the Ultimate edition? Or should I just basically have the two book open and go page by page and see what is different. See We are 2 sessions in to a campaign from old mainbook but may like to switch to Ultimate. We would like to quickly see what is different in our characters, stats, game play what ever.. the rest of it we will just get as we play.

I suggest either completely updating all the characters per R:UE (practically a re-roll) or simply ignoring R:UE and sticking with the orginal book.

Umm....I say get R:UE, then kill off the characters and have the players make new ones. Telling them to just reroll them would probably tick them off pretty good.

J/K :lol:

. I think it's a great buy and clears some stuff up in the original rules.

Chuck

DocS · Unread post by **DocS** » Sun May 20, 2007 5:50 pm

Lemme put it this way,

I played the old edition for over a decade. I then entered a new game which used RUE.

I barely noticed any difference. Well, except for that totally unplayable rule about mages and armor (Sheesh!).

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