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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7353014" data-attributes="member: 1465">This topic has been popular since the start of 5e... IMO you need to tell us what is the purpose of your conversion: would you like to convert rules, character material, monsters or adventures? Would you like to convert for publishing your conversion or for using it in your own games? To me the latter question makes all the difference!I have myself converted some 3e material into 5e, mainly from the Rokugan campaign setting books. But I have also converted adventures from BECMI/AD&amp;D/3e to 5e for my own use, and this kind of conversions I always do on the fly. That's because they are just for us to play, and I don't need spend time thinking about a &quot;perfect&quot; conversion... all I need to is mostly to use the 5e version of monsters, use the most similar 5e magic items OR use the adventure's version with small mechanical adjustments (mostly dump/compress +s for bounded accuracy), and improvise reasonable DCs. Very little else is ever needed. But obviously converting an AD&amp;D kit or 3e prestige class is entirely another matter, since once a player takes that into use, it's permanent for the rest of the campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7353014, member: 1465"] This topic has been popular since the start of 5e... IMO you need to tell us what is the purpose of your conversion: would you like to convert [B]rules[/B], [B]character material[/B], [B]monsters[/B] or [B]adventures[/B]? Would you like to convert for [I]publishing[/I] your conversion or for [I]using[/I] it in your own games? To me the latter question makes all the difference! I have myself converted some 3e material into 5e, mainly from the Rokugan campaign setting books. But I have also converted adventures from BECMI/AD&D/3e to 5e for my own use, and this kind of conversions I always do [I]on the fly[/I]. That's because they are just for us to play, and I don't need spend time thinking about a "perfect" conversion... all I need to is mostly to use the 5e version of monsters, use the most similar 5e magic items OR use the adventure's version with small mechanical adjustments (mostly dump/compress +s for bounded accuracy), and improvise reasonable DCs. Very little else is ever needed. But obviously converting an AD&D kit or 3e prestige class is entirely another matter, since once a player takes that into use, it's permanent for the rest of the campaign. [/QUOTE]

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