D&D 5E Ad&d 2nd magic.items to d&d 5th magic items

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rigthegear

First Post

• Feb 14, 2016

• #1

So I get some old ad&d 2nd edition of encyclopedia magic item vol. 1-4. Their any guide for fifth edition ? I seen that Wizard released their guide but if confusing and not step by step. Do anyone has any guide or website I can use?

 

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ccs

41st lv DM

• Feb 14, 2016

• #2

What kind of guide ate you looking for?

 

Sacrosanct

Legend

• Feb 14, 2016

• #3

Magic items in 5e are toned down compared to 2e, largely because of bounded accuracy. For example, you're not going to see +3 items in 5e until the high teens. In AD&D you probably saw them around level 10 or so. If I were going to use 1e or 2e magic items in 5e, I'd probably cut the power of them in half, or treat some of the better ones like legendary or artifacts.

 

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rigthegear

First Post

• Feb 14, 2016

• #4

ccs said:

What kind of guide ate you looking for?

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I look to convert ad&d 2nd magic items to d&d 5th

 

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rigthegear

First Post

• Feb 14, 2016

• #5

Sacrosanct said:

Magic items in 5e are toned down compared to 2e, largely because of bounded accuracy. For example, you're not going to see +3 items in 5e until the high teens. In AD&D you probably saw them around level 10 or so. If I were going to use 1e or 2e magic items in 5e, I'd probably cut the power of them in half, or treat some of the better ones like legendary or artifacts.

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I start to drop the + and damage down that but i want to had a referee guide.

 

DEFCON 1

Legend

Supporter

• Feb 14, 2016

• #6

I think someone has already gone through and made a massive document that updated the magic items from the magic item encyclopedia to 5E. I want to say it was like [MENTION=1210]the Jester[/MENTION] or [MENTION=37579]Jester Canuck[/MENTION]? I'm not at all sure it was either the two of them, but I know SOMEONE did, because I have a copy of it saved on my hard drive.

If you check EN World's downloads page and did a search., maybe it's found there? Can't truly remember. But someone's already did it, that I know.

 

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Morlock

Banned

Banned

• Feb 15, 2016

• #7

The (not really) Complete Encyclopedia Magica

The (not really) Complete Tome of Spells

 

ccs

41st lv DM

• Feb 15, 2016

• #8

rigthegear said:

I look to convert ad&d 2nd magic items to d&d 5th

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I would suggest just using your best judgment.
If you want an item to do xyz? Then that's what it does....

 

AaronOfBarbaria

Adventurer

• Feb 15, 2016

• #9

I second the suggestion given by [MENTION=6803664]ccs[/MENTION]

There is no universally correct method of determining how to convert items because there is no universally correct function of magic items in the 5th edition game. It is far better to assess each on your own case-by-case basis than to assume someone else's opinion of what items should be like will match yours well enough not to result in you having to tweak or ignore items because you don't find them appropriate.

 

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S'mon

Legend

• Feb 15, 2016

• #10

I've been running 10 sessions of a Pathfinder adventure in 5e and I've not had any need to change/convert the items yet; it makes for a high magic campaign by 5e standards but that's ok. For 2e I guess there is obvious stuff like Bracers of Defence in 5e always give +2 to unarmoured AC, whereas in 2e they give AC 8 to AC 2.

Some suggestions:

Weapon & armour Pluses - halve pluses, round down in low magic campaign, round up in high magic campaign. Or else +1 > +1, +2 & +3 > +2, +3, +4 & +5 > +3 is probably the best.

Damage bonuses - increase these by roughly 75% (anything from 50% to 100% works), eg a +2 to damage might be +1d6, a 5d6 fireball > 8d8.

Effects like invisibility & fly generally work as-is but you may want to require either Concentration or limited duration (many official 5e items don't though).