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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6872607" data-attributes="member: 82106">Maybe we've all beaten this horse enough here... Suffice it to say that the very different sorts of agenda between 4e and 5e makes conversions difficult (just like converting classic D&D modules, 1e, 2e, whatever was also often difficult). No doubt SOME adventures will convert. I SUSPECT its not so hard to convert 4e->5e, but going the other way will be pretty tough. The only official 5e module I've experienced much of is Phandelver. Some of it is probably pretty straightforward, but I'd expect on the DM side of the screen there are a few issues. There's also some stylistic things, like it would probably make most sense to just abstract the regional map into an SC framework of some sort in a 4e version of the adventure. That might be something like the PCs set a goal for overland travel, and maybe they get where they're headed, and maybe they get to somewhere else, depending on which information they uncover. That is I'd think that various locations would be "enabled" depending on what the characters have learned. Actually getting to them without running into OTHER locations that you maybe didn't want to find, that could be an SC, with location discovery being a sort of uber-SC, something like that. This would remove the wilderness hexcrawl aspect and turn it into a series of transition scenes and vignettes. The Mine is a bit sprawling and yet fairly sparsely populated. I seem to recall that some of the situations were a bit simple, but maybe with careful choices of opponents they could all work as 4e encounters. Certainly some of them were fairly decent, and none were outright BAD. Still, probably not mostly a verbatim conversion.Think about the other way though, KotS would be a perfectly feasible, if dull, 5e adventure. The combats would still be a little much, but they'd probably go faster. Otherwise nothing would really change.</blockquote>

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