Cleric Domain conversion and creation

[Dark Sun Gnome]

Hi everyone. I'm currently converting several cleric domains from 3.5 to 5e, and I need some advice on how to go about this and end up with nice, bounded domains. Is there something to make sure everything is nicely bounded? If not, anybody have any useful advice?

 

[Vileo Sufora]

There's actually some relevant Unearthed Arcana for this. It's got a lot of good tips you can take from it, and a PDF download at the bottom with examples. Hope this helps you out a bit.

 

[Dark Sun Gnome]

What I was hoping for was more along the lines of this monster converter, the class creation outlines and this race converter/creation guide. Like everything is point graded. I converted a large number of races and subraces using this, just wondering if there is something similar for cleric domains (and feats too) as it would be much easier.

I've seen the Unearthed Arcana article, its not that helpful in my eyes.

 

[Vileo Sufora]

Ah, I understand. I haven't come across anything like that for classes yet, though I have seen the one for races before. Honestly, if something like that doesn't exist yet, the best option might just be to "playtest" some scenarios. What I mean by that is just set up a little quick encounter and roll the dice yourself to see how balanced it is. Granted, that's very time consuming for large numbers of domains, but still. I hope someone else can be a little more helpful to you. c:

 

[Dark Sun Gnome]

Thanks. I think the guy that did the stuff for races was going to do something for everything else. Its part of my Dark Sun conversion, and the domains that were in the DS3, which had highly evocative names, and some really nasty and brutal spells.

Ive done conversion of the spells in the PHB and EE to suit Dark Sun (The Gray and The Black instead of the Astral, spell components, school switches), this is a logical continuation of that.