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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jdvn1" data-source="post: 2918544" data-attributes="member: 26424">I recently found the Dragon Mountain boxset at my FLGS. Having a set that I've had longer, that I got used, I figured I'd bring mine in and compare the two--make sure I wasn't missing anything.Well, first glace everything seemed fine. I counted everything, and there was the same number of everything.A more in-depth look yielded a problem. Each had the same number of maps, but each set had one map different from the other set.Weird!Anyway, I picked up the second set at a discount (because it was obviously incomplete), and now I really want to run Dragon Mountain again. Except, a conversion is so darn hard to find. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So, I figured I'd run Dragon Mountain, doing most of the conversion on the fly. Thing is, I need a starting point.I decided that since 2nd ed has so many power disparities, that trying to keep the statistics of everything somewhat the same (ie a direction conversion) would be not only unfeasible, but contrary to design philosophies of 3e/3.5. So, I need to choose a starting level, and effectively rebuild every encounter to balance appropriately.Thing is, I started D&D with 3e. I know very, very little about 2nd ed. This isn't a problem for most of the adventure, since I'm not doing anything close to a direct conversion but a story conversion (as I call it), but I do need a starting point.So, what level should the adventure start at?I don't want to start too high because having to pull in too many epic things toward the end would be kind of a hassle. I dont' want to start too low, because then the feel of the early encounters would drastically change (I couldn't throw a thieve's guild against a level 1 party for example).I don't have the adventure with me right now, but I think it says a party of 6-8 level 10-12 characters. Should I start it at level 10? Any advice?Note that I'm not asking for a conversion. Baby steps, you see. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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