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This is my ultra-quick (little work as possible), while running the 4E monsters almost exactly as they are written, and not changing the way 4E works too much, attempt at an on-the-fly conversion to D&D Next. You're going to be mixing 4E effects with D&D Next effects. i.e. Your players could...

Problem with this, is they seemed to drastically change the XP in the very last packet, and a lot of the bestiaries for the older adventures weren't updated.

My conjecture, is they made the "Average" encounter equal to 50% of the power of the players. They made a "Tough" encounter equal to 100% of the power of the players. So if you look at the XP chart in the "DM Guidelines", a Level 3 Tough Encounter for 1 player is 120. So a level 3 NPC caster...

I read it and am running it for just two players, controlling 4 PCs. It is indeed a very excellent adventure. Someone said what makes the Forgotten Realms great is the unabashed love of detail. The amount of detail in this story is incredible. From why Daggerford is named Dagger Ford, to how...

Yeah I have tested this a bunch. It works great, but... What I noticed is that how much in D&D Next; Hit Points and Damage Output are the two biggest defining characteristics of difficulty. Long Story Short, if you wanted something to be a threat in Pathfinder(3.5) you could choose something 2...

All this debate, makes we change my #1 hope for D&D Next and what I think will be the most important thing that will determine D&D Next's success, is if D&D Next allows 3rd party publishers of adventure material. And very open flexible terms of doing so. There are many different desires for...

Shawn, I loved that Halls of Undermountain adventure. It was in my mind, one pinnacle of the 4E era. It got some bad reviews on Amazon, simply because monster stats were not included! that's a lame reason. I guess people were looking for the Delve format. I loved the adventure! I wrote one of...

Don't bother saving the MM1, Use the "Monster Vault" which replaced 80% of it. The monsters that weren't replaced, are either rarely used monsters, or they were updated in the DDI online compendium. For a Dungeon Crawl, I highly recommend "The Halls of Undermountain" boxed set. To address...

A big warning!! A Solo Lurker that Weakens and drops a Globe of Darkness causing everyone to take -5 to attacks is going to frustrate the HELL out of your players! That's one big reason they got rid of the Globe of Darkness for the Black Dragon in the Monster Vault. I'd start with the Black...

I am trying to offer something that can be used on the fly. Those corner cases of debating with Sphinx's and arm wrestling, would be sort of rare. It seems like a DM could make up the DC's for those on the spot. If you use half the Saving Throw bonuses, you get very close to the majority of what...

Flanking rules Attacks of Opportunity Shifting Facing, (for those ultra-rare people who want this) Called Shots, go for the eyes Boo! I bet they'll implement it in a crappy way. They'll have things a Fighter can do with the expertise dice, that can only be done in the Tactical Module, and then...

I suggest giving them "all" the possible quest hooks and let the players decide what they want to do. Tell them several wealthy sponsors/wizards/nobles from their hometown sent them on this voyage. That also covers the cost of their ship. While the shipwreck thing, is an absolute classic trope...

I am going to try this out very soon. I will let people know how it goes. Any comments, or improvements would be helpful.

This whole post looks better as a Word document, download this entire post here: WordDoc Converting Pathfinder or 3.5 Monsters to D&D Next on the fly. Contents Introduction. 1 Step 1: Subtract CR from AC. 1 Step 2: Attack bonus for all attacks is CR/2+2. 1 Step 3: Leave Damage as is. Leave...

The Poison comes from the "Bite". If someone is bitten, they must make a DC12 Fort save or suffer the "effect" of the poison. The effect of the poison is that: the damage becomes hard to cure. When a caster casts Cure Light Wounds on that victim, they must make a DC20 "Caster Level Check" or...

The paralyzation is not broken. The whole point of the shriek is to set up a poor victim for a nice little unobstructed kiss. The Vargouille, taking the kiss action, triggers an opportunity attack from any non-paralyzed hostile creature whose "threatened area" the vargoille is in. If...

If you roll 43 times on the Magic Items table, to see what you'd get for a 5th level party. (Assuming the party only encountered "Average" encounters.) Uncommon items uncommon such as (100-500gp) weapon+1, wand of magic missile 1% 1.5 2% 3% 1.5 5% 6% 1.5 9% 20%...

My list of "Favs" of 4E Best 4E Adventures (any source) TitleLevelSourceLength1Tomb of Horrors DM Reward9DM Reward42Undermountain Boxed Set1print123Face of the Moon17Dungeon Mag54Blood Money8Dungeon Mag1-25Entire "Dungeon Delve" bookallprint16Encounters Season #7 Beyond Crystal Cave1Dungeon...

"Revenge of the Giants" the hardcover book sucks! It is not a dungeon crawl either. On the other hand, the conversions in Dungeon Magazine of the "Steading of the Hill Giant Chieftain", "Glacial Rift of the Frost Giants", "Hall of the Fire Giant King" by Chir Perkins are absolutely great! They...

A while ago, on ENWorld here, there was a whole long thread and a team of people here converted Red Hand of Doom to 4th edition. I thought they did a very good job. They kept the main NPC's and their powers very close to the 3.5 spells or abilities. This did cause a lot of NPC's to have a lot of...