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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaginary Number" data-source="post: 4748450" data-attributes="member: 63056">Greetings from a long-time lurker and first-time poster. I've been the DM for a group of six players since the mid-1980s. We played a long campaign with characters that were created under the 1e rules and later were converted to 2e. We've recently been running some one-shots under the 4e rules, which we've enjoyed, and the entire group now is interested in converting their old 2e characters to 4e. This has gone pretty smoothly for the most part -- now that the PHB2 is available, all of the players have options for their character concepts that work at least as well if not better than what they had under the 2e rules. We haven't reached consensus on a couple things, however, and I'm interested in any thoughts or advice others might have in those areas. The first is: at what level do we start? Their 2e characters were in the 9th-10th level range and were on a par with some of the most powerful NPCs in their corner of the campaign world. I've had suggestions to start them out at the high end of the heroic tier (roughly at the same level they were in 2e), at the middle of the paragon tier (roughly 1.5x their 2e level), and at the low end of the epic tier. There is no objectively correct answer, obviously, but I'd like to hear what others would do in the same circumstances. The second is: what do we do with their magic items? Many of their items have 4e analogs, of course, but most of the characters also had one or two "signature" items (like a staff of power or an intelligent magical sword with various special abilities) that aren't like anything available in the 4e books. Can something like a staff of power be converted within the scope of the 4e magic item rules?</blockquote>

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