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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 6310203" data-attributes="member: 1210">It's a lot harder than just making an item, actually.I know this is a response to a pretty early comment, but I just feel obliged to point out that in 1e, it was very expensive and time-consuming to make magic items, and in addition, you risked Constitution loss for permanent items. Not only that, not all high-level casters could enchant items; a magic-user needed the right spells (and back in those days, you got very few spells as you advanced, so it was by no means a sure thing that you'd have Enchant an Item and Permanency). EDIT: My 1e books are at my girlfriend's house or I'd look up time and cost, but I think it's days to weeks to craft an item, and generally pretty expensive to boot. Anyway, on another subject: Well, I'm not so sure, given either:A. A willingness to quickly swap in the 5e stat blocks of monsters; orB. A simply, easy-to-remember numeric formula for monsters-by-level like 4e had.The same argument seems to imply you can't just pick up a, for instance, Basic D&amp;D module and run it off the cuff for a later edition, but I've done just that with B4: The Lost City, in both 3e and 4e. Thanks to 4e's easy monster formula, I&nbsp; had no trouble winging appropriate stats for monsters not in the 4e books (oil beetles, freaky hallucinating cultists, etc). I ran several other modules the same way in 4e, including Box of Flumph (a 3e adventure) and little bits swiped from other modules. I would say that 4e 'changes the math' more than any other version of D&amp;D from Basic, so it's fair to compare and say, &quot;I could do it then; if 5e works well, it should be easy enough to do it in a couple of months.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 6310203, member: 1210"] It's a lot harder than just making an item, actually. I know this is a response to a pretty early comment, but I just feel obliged to point out that in 1e, it was very expensive and time-consuming to make magic items, and in addition, you risked Constitution loss for permanent items. Not only that, not all high-level casters could enchant items; a magic-user needed the right spells (and back in those days, you got very few spells as you advanced, so it was by no means a sure thing that you'd have [i]Enchant an Item[/i] and [i]Permanency[/i]). EDIT: My 1e books are at my girlfriend's house or I'd look up time and cost, but I think it's days to weeks to craft an item, and generally pretty expensive to boot. Anyway, on another subject: Well, I'm not so sure, given either: A. A willingness to quickly swap in the 5e stat blocks of monsters; or B. A simply, easy-to-remember numeric formula for monsters-by-level like 4e had. The same argument seems to imply you can't just pick up a, for instance, Basic D&D module and run it off the cuff for a later edition, but I've done just that with B4: The Lost City, in both 3e and 4e. Thanks to 4e's easy monster formula, I had no trouble winging appropriate stats for monsters not in the 4e books (oil beetles, freaky hallucinating cultists, etc). I ran several other modules the same way in 4e, including Box of Flumph (a 3e adventure) and little bits swiped from other modules. I would say that 4e 'changes the math' more than any other version of D&D from Basic, so it's fair to compare and say, "I could do it then; if 5e works well, it should be easy enough to do it in a couple of months." [/QUOTE]

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