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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 8238509" data-attributes="member: 59057">I played that adventure sever times in 5e.(and 4e and 3e and as a player in ADnD)If you want to convert it to 5e, I have following guidelines:[ISPOILER]- have your characters start with race and background and 4 + con hp (or 6 + con) if you want to go easy on your PCs.Since stats are more important in 5e for your character choice than in ADnD, you should allow some stat modifications after (or during) the adventure.If you use standard array, you should use 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 instead of 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8. If you feel generous, you can allow to have 3 10s instead of a 9 and an 11.For point buy, a possible way is reducing point buy points and only allow stats up to 13 (not including racial modifiers). Since the 15 is reduced to 11 and the 14 is reduced to 9, that makes it 6 points less per stat, so 12 points less than 27 which is 15.- the pirate orcs and goblins should not use the goblin and orc stats. Those are way too powetful and don't represent those wretched creatures well.Use the commoner stat block instead and modify it with the "standard racial abilities" agressive for orcs, nimble escape for goblins.As stats, you can either just use 10s on all stats for orcs and goblins, or what I did was giving Goblins just 8 (or 10) Strength and Orcs 12. Since orcs in the module have more hp on average and are generally more wretched, you could also just give goblins 8 in all stats (including consitution) except dexterity. That makes Orcs more dangerous than goblins.[/ISPOILER]Actually I already bought the conversion and I remember using the ability score variant as suggested. The stats for orcs and goblins are a little bit off however.Except for elves with proficiency in swords and bows, everyone has a bad time hitting AC 12 or 11 respectively (I know in ADnD, the AC was 10 and hitting was even more difficult back then), but todays expectation is hitting a little more.What is more problematic are the static bonuses added to damage on each attack Str 16 and dex 14 means that every attack does 3 or 4 points of damage at least, with a high possibility to one shot PCs. With my proposed stats, a fight is actually possible, but still very dangerous.</blockquote>

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