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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6605513" data-attributes="member: 6787650">You could use the DMG spell creation rules. They generally result, in spells that are much weaker than PHB spells.I dislike the idea of straight-up converting spells with no consequence. Fireball is ubiquitous perhaps BECAUSE it is tightly-written, tuned, and optimized for damage. If I were designing a 5E spell system I'd give it the same characteristics of my AD&D system: spell research can be fast, cheap, or efficient, choose one. Hence the existence of garbage spells like Drawmij's Instant Summons which were probably created in one afternoon.Anyway, if it were me I'd just go with nerfing the spells during conversion ("Ball Lightning" is 5d6 in a 10' radius) while holding out the hope of improving the spell algorithm with more research.</blockquote>