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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pseudopsyche" data-source="post: 4839306" data-attributes="member: 54600">If you try to translate 3e adventures too literally, you might have a frustrating time.  As others have said, you need to be somewhat fluid in your conversion.For example, one of my 3e Dungeon Crawl Classics begins a 1st-level adventure with a fight against a single ogre.  For a party of four 1st-level PCs in 4e, you might think that a single ogre brute (level 8, 350 XP) is a decent first encounter for a first adventure, but chances are you'd want to substitute a lower-level monster or monsters, or rebuild the ogre as a level 1 solo (and make sure the terrain is interesting).Interestingly, the problem with the ogre is just that 4E assumes you'll fight ogres as an 8th-level party, one ogre per PC.  Similarly, in 3E, four ogres is theoretically a EL 7 encounter, appropriate for a 7th-level party.  But by making a single ogre CR 3, 3E opened the door for a low-level party to fight a single ogre.  You'll just need to watch out for issues like this one.  If you don't want to rebuild the ogre as a level 1 solo (or reskin an existing low-level elite or solo), you need to take a step back and figure out what other monster would fit the intended flavor and challenge.</blockquote>