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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6293278" data-attributes="member: 22424">There's no actual maximum level, though the PHB only supports up to level 20. Later supplements formally support even higher levels, but even that's not a hard cap.Up to level 9, a 1-to-1 comparison works fine. It should be noted that, starting at level 9, 2nd Ed characters hit 'name' level, after which non-spellcasters start to progress at a much reduced rate (spellcasters continue to acquire new spell levels). So, anything above 9th level will require additional conversion work - but then, I don't think there are many 2nd Ed adventures (outside of Dungeon magazine) for high levels anyway...The big thing you'll want to look at are the individual encounters, though - most 1st and 2nd Ed adventures had encounters set up based on what &quot;felt right&quot;, while Pathfinder is much more formal about such things. Additionally, some monsters (notably giants and dragons) very signficantly changed in power level in the meantime. So, time permitting, you might want to rebuild some, or all, of the encounters, both adjusting the number of opponents faced, and sometimes changing to an entirely different opponent (eg Ogres instead of Giants) to keep the flavour of the encounter without becoming over-powered (or, indeed, under-powered).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6293278, member: 22424"] There's no actual maximum level, though the PHB only supports up to level 20. Later supplements formally support even higher levels, but even that's not a hard cap. Up to level 9, a 1-to-1 comparison works fine. It should be noted that, starting at level 9, 2nd Ed characters hit 'name' level, after which non-spellcasters start to progress at a [i]much[/i] reduced rate (spellcasters continue to acquire new spell levels). So, anything above 9th level will require additional conversion work - but then, I don't think there are many 2nd Ed adventures (outside of Dungeon magazine) for high levels anyway... The big thing you'll want to look at are the individual encounters, though - most 1st and 2nd Ed adventures had encounters set up based on what "felt right", while Pathfinder is much more formal about such things. Additionally, some monsters (notably giants and dragons) very signficantly changed in power level in the meantime. So, time permitting, you might want to rebuild some, or all, of the encounters, both adjusting the number of opponents faced, and sometimes changing to an entirely different opponent (eg Ogres instead of Giants) to keep the flavour of the encounter without becoming over-powered (or, indeed, under-powered). [/QUOTE]

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