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<blockquote data-quote="Amazing Mumford" data-source="post: 4810858" data-attributes="member: 33976">Thanks for your suggestions, I do appreciate the thoughts...&nbsp; Yeah, these are some pretty tough adventures (both are 1st ed.) as such they are a little harder to convert over to 3.5.&nbsp; Like your water weird example, sometimes straight conversions lead to either way too tough or way too easy encounters, you almost have to first convert each one on a case-by-case basis and then adjust up or down to try to match the difficulty suggested for the initial adventure.&nbsp; And the potential random demon encounters in the Throne of Bloodstone can get REAL out-of-hand... but I feel that by then PC's of that level should be a little more &quot;planes-savvy&quot; and probably have means to get around some potentially deadly stuff.&nbsp; I am planning on using the Draconomicon and Libris Mortis, and most likely get a lot of use from Champions of Ruin, Book of Vile Darkness, Exemplars of Evil, and of course some epic-level stuff...&nbsp;As for &quot;help&quot; for the PC's that's a good question, I hadn't really thought of that-- I probably should though!&nbsp; I would think of cohorts or mounts, but that would take away from those PC's that would get them in-character like if they had a paladin that got a mount or if they chose leadership as a feat; it wouldn't be fair to them.&nbsp; A planetar or archon NPC might be cool, but then again it would attract WAY too much attention on the Lower Planes!&nbsp; Maybe something more neutral, like a Marut or something from Mechanus... or maybe during the fight with Tiamat I could &quot;gate in&quot; some metallic dragons to keep her cohorts busy while the PC's concentrate on the battle with Tiamat... that would make that particular fight MUCH easier...&nbsp; And probably I was thinking about making sure each PC, in addition to gear already owned, have a pretty powerful item maybe &quot;loaned&quot; to them-- like maybe the PC cleric might get a relic &quot;loaned&quot; from the church or something...&nbsp; What do you think?&nbsp; Also, how do you think it's best to &quot;convert&quot; traps from 1st to 3rd edition?&nbsp; Is there a formula or something, or is it again case-by-case??&nbsp;Well if you do some work on these , feel free to send me a message and maybe we can discuss things off the boards...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Amazing Mumford, post: 4810858, member: 33976"] Thanks for your suggestions, I do appreciate the thoughts... Yeah, these are some pretty tough adventures (both are 1st ed.) as such they are a little harder to convert over to 3.5. Like your water weird example, sometimes straight conversions lead to either way too tough or way too easy encounters, you almost have to first convert each one on a case-by-case basis and then adjust up or down to try to match the difficulty suggested for the initial adventure. And the potential random demon encounters in the Throne of Bloodstone can get REAL out-of-hand... but I feel that by then PC's of that level should be a little more "planes-savvy" and probably have means to get around some potentially deadly stuff. I am planning on using the Draconomicon and Libris Mortis, and most likely get a lot of use from Champions of Ruin, Book of Vile Darkness, Exemplars of Evil, and of course some epic-level stuff... As for "help" for the PC's that's a good question, I hadn't really thought of that-- I probably should though! I would think of cohorts or mounts, but that would take away from those PC's that would get them in-character like if they had a paladin that got a mount or if they chose leadership as a feat; it wouldn't be fair to them. A planetar or archon NPC might be cool, but then again it would attract WAY too much attention on the Lower Planes! Maybe something more neutral, like a Marut or something from Mechanus... or maybe during the fight with Tiamat I could "gate in" some metallic dragons to keep her cohorts busy while the PC's concentrate on the battle with Tiamat... that would make that particular fight MUCH easier... And probably I was thinking about making sure each PC, in addition to gear already owned, have a pretty powerful item maybe "loaned" to them-- like maybe the PC cleric might get a relic "loaned" from the church or something... What do you think? Also, how do you think it's best to "convert" traps from 1st to 3rd edition? Is there a formula or something, or is it again case-by-case?? Well if you do some work on these , feel free to send me a message and maybe we can discuss things off the boards... [/QUOTE]

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