2nd ED to 4th Ed Conversion?

[Heir Raktus]

I recently uncovered my I, Tyrant campaign (Eye of Pain/Eye of Doom/Eye to Eye) from the old AD&D 2nd Edition Monstrous Arcana series. I was wondering if there already exists a 4th Ed conversion or if there is a simple method to do so?

 

[Primitive Screwhead]

I see nothing floating around in Google, however converting to a new edition can be readily done by rewriting the encounters and maybe tossing in a skill challenge where appropriate.

2e favored attrition through the day with easily defeated monsters, so you might have to consolidate some encounters to make a singel 4e encounter.

I am running the WoBS campaign and am ahead of the official conversions, so this is what I end up doing... and its worked quite well so far.

 

[the Jester]

Ahhh, I wish I had those. I only have one of the sahuagin modules, and it's not very satisfying since I don't have the rest of the series.

On the other hand, I do have I, Tyrant, the Illithiad, and the Sea Devils, and each one is awesome.

 

[ren1999]

I'm trying to convert 1st edition to 4th edition.
I have found that if I leave the minions as they are but change the stats of some of the more difficult soldiers and bosses, I get less grumbling from players and a more enjoyable game. My goal is not to kill the players but to create a somewhat challenging game. I do that by averaging all the player character stats one at a time. For example hit points. A party of 4 have 39hp + 55hp + 39hp + 33hp/4 = 41.5-->42hp for the monsters. Because there are 4 party members, reduce the number of difficult to kill monsters by 1 or 2 depending on how well the party does previously. Sometimes I reduce monster hit points only to half the average hit points of the party to save time.

What do you think? Do you have a better suggestion?

 

[the Jester]

When I've run 1e adventures in 4e, I have just converted everything on the fly. Even some monsters- oil beetles in B4 (I know, it's not 1e, but still), for instance.

My experience with winging it has been good, but if I were going to do a full-on conversion, I'd actually either sub in 4e monsters or stat up things with 4e stats. I really enjoy monster creation, though- it's one of my favorite parts of dming.

 

[ren1999]

I just found your Sundew conversion. I'm play testing it now. Any suggestions?

Works best with the latest Firefox. Extract the folder first, then extract the files in to the folder.
http://kira3696.tripod.com/CombatTracker.rar

I just made a few minor improvements.