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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4732224" data-attributes="member: 15538">It's not clear to me how much you want to convert. To do a full campaign conversion, you could use the AD&D->3e conversion document for most of the important numbers, like level, ability scores, and so forth. Paladins, avengers, knights, and druids would all be prestige classes. Elves would be fighter/wizard/eldritch knights, halflings would be fighters with some rogue levels, and dwarves would be dwarf fighters (maybe fighter/dwarven defenders). There are only three alignments. A lot of spells did not exist in BECMI that have some significant effects on game play.If, on the other hand, you just wanted to use the broad outlines of the game, and use the old modules, you wouldn't have to convert much at all. If you encountered a paladin in a BECMI module, you could just turn him into a 3.5 paladin, or you could look at his capabilities and decide maybe he should be a fighter/cleric or maybe a fighter/pious templar or whatever. Most of the monsters have rough equivalents. Monsters with significant abilities would probably translate as a monster of the equivalent CR to its Hit Dice, while most classic beaters and beasts would be CR = HD/2. Then you would play with the numbers to meet DMG guidelines.Encounters might not rebalancing, but in most causes this could be done by counting up the EL and probably adding or substracting a monster. Keeping in mind the DMG view of a mix of ELs, it's okay if some of the stuff seems a little high or a little low.</blockquote>

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