ZEITGEIST Zeitgeist for PF2E (starting a conversion)

[mkb152]

My favorite gaming memory was playing in War of the Burning Sky. It's been 10 years since we finished, and it's still the most talked about campaign in my home group. Looking at Zeitgeist, and reading it, I get the same feeling. I think it'd be fun to run. But our current PF1E campaign (Ironfang Invasion) will likely be our last in that edition, and I think PF2E is a good fit for many of the things in the Zeitgeist campaign, especially skill challenges etc. So I think I'm going to convert it, and unless I missed it, I don't think anyone else has tried. I own the PDFs for PF1E so I am working off those. I have a quite a bit of time to get it done, since we're level 6 in our current campaign, so I probably have about a year until I run. Don't know if anyone would be willing to check and give feedback. Today I took a look at the theme feats from the Player's Guide. I converted them into backgrounds, and I tried to PF2E rules as much as possible.

All credit to the designers for the great theme feat ideas.

Zeitgeist to PF2E conversion (Theme Feats)

Updated 7/5/2021 Legend: *, ** = Awaiting releases / need to design rules for these. The more stars, the more work needed. Recommendation: Free archetype variant. Backgrounds: All Player characters start with one of the following backgrounds. Each gives access to a specialized archetype feat...

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Any feedback/ideas welcome.

 

[RangerWickett]

It's a busy holiday weekend for me, so I don't have time to dig in for detailed feedback, but I want to wish you luck.

 

[arkwright]

I would strongly suggest keeping the 4e version of Zeit on hand, as the 4e versions of monsters are a lot more interesting. Should be useful for inspiration. Scroll down to '4e vs PF' here.

 

[mkb152]

I would strongly suggest keeping the 4e version of Zeit on hand, as the 4e versions of monsters are a lot more interesting. Should be useful for inspiration. Scroll down to '4e vs PF' here.

Thank you for the tip; I saw that and will keep in mind. Luckily, designing monsters from scratch is pretty easy for PF2E, so I should be able to customize them and keep them interesting.
At the time, it seemed like monsters using the same rules in 3/3.5E/PF was great and seemless! Turns out it was tougher to make monsters interesting that way.

 

[mkb152]

It's a busy holiday weekend for me, so I don't have time to dig in for detailed feedback, but I want to wish you luck

Anytime and anything I get back, no matter how small, will be very much appreciated. As will the luck!

 

[grankless]

Join the A Series of Dice-Based Events Discord Server! Come join us at the 2e conversion discord - some (light) work has been done on Zeitgeist, and I'm looking to improve upon it - especially cuz what's there is pretty old and needs some real TLC! When you join, type !other in the newcomers channel and it'll give you access to the Zeitgeist channel.

 

[mkb152]

Thanks... I'll post my work there too and check it out.