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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8238857" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya!</p><p></p><p>I honestly did some rules fiddling to see if I could do the same sort of "thing". My result: It's FAR easier to incorporate some of the 5e stuff into 1e than the other way around. For example, Advantage/Disadvantage and the entirety of the Skill/Ability stuff. The next possibility would be to convert AD&D AC's to 5e's AC "higher is better". Not a huge undertaking, could do most on the fly, but some cases became... "odd". Like the Willo-the-Wisp with an AD&D AC of -8 converting to a 5e AC 28. The reason for these 'outliers' is a creatures "toughness" was a combo of AC and HP...whereas 5e is more of straight HP with AC playing only a minor role except at the extreme ends (re: lower than 10 or higher than about 25). With 5e, they opted to often just keep the AC 'lowish', but up the HP's by a large amount (the "bags of HP's" mentality...for 'but hitting things is fun!' mindset).</p><p></p><p>Anyway. Yeah. It might be easier to go cannibalize what you like from 5e and then incorporate that into 1e than the other way around.</p><p></p><p>^_^</p><p></p><p>Paul L. Ming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 8238857, member: 45197"] Hiya! I honestly did some rules fiddling to see if I could do the same sort of "thing". My result: It's FAR easier to incorporate some of the 5e stuff into 1e than the other way around. For example, Advantage/Disadvantage and the entirety of the Skill/Ability stuff. The next possibility would be to convert AD&D AC's to 5e's AC "higher is better". Not a huge undertaking, could do most on the fly, but some cases became... "odd". Like the Willo-the-Wisp with an AD&D AC of -8 converting to a 5e AC 28. The reason for these 'outliers' is a creatures "toughness" was a combo of AC and HP...whereas 5e is more of straight HP with AC playing only a minor role except at the extreme ends (re: lower than 10 or higher than about 25). With 5e, they opted to often just keep the AC 'lowish', but up the HP's by a large amount (the "bags of HP's" mentality...for 'but hitting things is fun!' mindset). Anyway. Yeah. It might be easier to go cannibalize what you like from 5e and then incorporate that into 1e than the other way around. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]
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