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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 6114808" data-attributes="member: 1613">I've done forward and backward conversions, and IME going backward is much simpler.  Orius covered several important items already, but here are a few additional thoughts:- you can mitigate level limits with wishes or divine/infernal/etc. intervention, so I wouldn't worry too much about those; another option would be to make the PC into a minor godling---a hero, quasi-deity, or even demigod (and if that sounds attractive, you may want to consider buying a copy of _The Primal Order_)- magic items that are non-standard are very much a part of 1e as well, they're just not as codified as in 3.x; adding various abilities to the weapons/armor/etc. shouldn't be a huge problem- 1e does use schools of magic, but they're really just descriptors for the spells vs. providing any particular benefit by specializing in one or more; those kinds of rules can easily be imported from 2e or added for flavor via your PC's years of training/specialization/whatever- stats to 19 are available in PHB (Dex and Con, IIRC), but stats higher than 18 are defined in D&DG or the MM2; it's never been a problem for PCs to have stats higher than 18 IMCsGood luck <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>