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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 6280249" data-attributes="member: 20307">Well, my experiences were quite the other way round. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To-3e conversions were quite easy as long as I could find a replacement monster in 3e. When a special monster was used in the old material for which no 3e version existed and thus had to be built from scratch... I guess we all know this can feel with 3e rules. To-4e conversions, on the other hand, were easier for me. I decided on a CR according to the encounter's description and built a fitting replacement encounter which, with the Adventure Tools and easy re-skinning, came easy to me.The room layout was the hardest part that is, the conversion of a whole dungeon level to rooms large enough to host an interesting 4e encounter without changing the whole thing into something completely different. What's more, a good 4e encounter has more dimensions than the room size: waves of monsters and their timing play a big role. Sometimes I tried to cut an older dungeon level in "encounter areas" consisting of several rooms. Once triggered, this encounter area became "acitve" s a whole.As far as the encounter design of 5e is concerned, especially offering different encounters for different versions, I don't hold my breath. While it's somwhere between easy and manageable for a single encounter, I seriously doubt that WotC will invest in such an endeavour. They would not only have to take care of 1/2e, 3e, 4e, and 5e (what about BECMI and 0e, by the way), but also for the different modules for 5e.They had started something similar in 2008 with Dungeon articles converting Keep on the Shadowfell to the Forgotten Realms and Eberron in issue #155. Dungeon #156 saw another article adapting Thunderspire Labyrinth to the Realms, but that was the end of the story.</blockquote>

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