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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 6655531" data-attributes="member: 1210">Dude. Can we not start edition warring?I'll speak to the ease of conversion of 4e material- you have to be willing to go back to basics with it. You don't need to convert each power a monster had, just the monster's concept. Once in a while a special ability might convert over; that's cool, but too many ingredients spoil a dish, if you get my meaning. I've done several 4e powers and rituals, too; again, it's more work than the material from 1e, 2e or 3e and you have to basically do at least a partial rewrite, but it's pretty easy if you have a good sense of how powerful a spell of a given level ought to be. Look at the spells like hunger of Hadar that made it from 4e to 5e for examples of how to convert them. I've done probably a couple hundred magic items, too, and those are often problematic, too, requiring a near-total rewrite (since so many items gave powers or properties that were variants of each other, many were tied to 4e-specific mechanics, etc). But it's not that hard; just be creative, approach it from a &quot;what does this look like in the world, and how do I translate that into 5e?&quot; perspective and be willing to do a little work.As for adventures, the first published adventure I'm using in 5e is 4e's Thunderspire Labyrinth, which I'm changing a great deal but plan on using as many of the encounters as close to as-is as is practicable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 6655531, member: 1210"] Dude. Can we not start edition warring? I'll speak to the ease of conversion of 4e material- you have to be willing to go back to basics with it. You don't need to convert each power a monster had, just the monster's concept. Once in a while a special ability might convert over; that's cool, but too many ingredients spoil a dish, if you get my meaning. I've done several 4e powers and rituals, too; again, it's more work than the material from 1e, 2e or 3e and you have to basically do at least a partial rewrite, but it's pretty easy if you have a good sense of how powerful a spell of a given level ought to be. Look at the spells like [i]hunger of Hadar[/i] that made it from 4e to 5e for examples of how to convert them. I've done probably a couple hundred magic items, too, and those are often problematic, too, requiring a near-total rewrite (since so many items gave powers or properties that were variants of each other, many were tied to 4e-specific mechanics, etc). But it's not that hard; just be creative, approach it from a "what does this look like in the world, and how do I translate that into 5e?" perspective and be willing to do a little work. As for adventures, the first published adventure I'm using in 5e is 4e's [i]Thunderspire Labyrinth[/i], which I'm changing a great deal but plan on using as many of the encounters as close to as-is as is practicable. [/QUOTE]

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