Why isn't there an Alchemist Conversion (pathfinder to 5e?)

[Ancalagon]

Hello

A few years back I played a 3.5/pathfinder sort of hybrid and I made an alchemist. I had a lot of fun with it, and found the class to be a "jack of most trade, and pretty good at many of them". Amusingly, I had the highest AC and second highest HP. I was left with the impression that this was a very fun class to play and that while clearly not for everyone, a portion of players would want to keep playing it.

So I started poking around this forum, and to my dismay, I didn't find any conversions to 5e! Am I missing something? Did I completely fail my "search forum check"? Am I deluded into thinking the class is fun (ie no one else wants to bother)? Are angry Pathfinder lawyers waiting to sue anyone who dares convert their material to 5e? Are there unique challenges to converting an alchemist into 5e that make the task avoided by everyone? etc etc

 

[delericho]

Maybe all of the people who enjoyed the alchemist are still playing pathfinder.

It's probably this.

Plus, one other thing...

Are angry Pathfinder lawyers waiting to sue anyone who dares convert their material to 5e?

Nope. In fact, the Alchemist is open under the OGL, which means that a conversion is legally quite easy - all the bits you need are open.

Except...

Most of the small third-party projects for 5e seem to be done under the DMguild... and the DMguild is incompatible with the OGL. That possibly lessens the motivation for someone to do that conversion.

 

[Vicaring]

You could always check out Matt Mercer's Witch Hunter class. One of its subclasses uses Mutagens.

 

[Ancalagon]

Well one challenge would be the notion of the "2/3 caster", a-la 3.x/pathfinder bard... they would have to either be made into full casters (a mistake I think) or have a new chart made up. I also don't know how well the spell list would convert.

I'm not familiar at all with the DMguild, I will have to look that up.

 

[Inchoroi]

This is my favorite, and one, if I were not ForeverDM, I would play in half a heartbeat.

 

[Newti]

You might wanna take a look at this.

Its an adapted version of Inchoroi's posted class after the original author abandoned it!

 

[Bupp]

Here's a version I like:

http://tribality.com/2015/01/07/5th-edition-class-builds-the-alchemist-artificer-metamorph-poisoner/