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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 3752065" data-attributes="member: 19857">I've come to the conclusion that, except in a few very rare cases[*], a direct conversion of modules between any editions is not the way to go anyway.  An encounter balanced for Basic D&D, or 1e, or 2e was never necessarily balanced for 3e to begin with.  And 4e and 3e sound like they are going to have very different balancing mechanics, so a straight conversion will probably be an unbalanced mess.  I did multiple conversions early on in the 3e lifecycle for my groups and resorted to "thematic conversions" in the end because the encounter balances were so far off.  It turned out to be almost as much work as designing a new adventure from scratch in some cases.So on the whole, no, I'm not planning on converting much of anything to 4e.  My current campaign is 3.5e and I've assured my players that it will remain 3.5e until they hit 20th level, we get bored and stop playing, or they fumble their way into a TPK <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  I just convinced a few of them to pick up their own PHBs a few months back, for one thing, and they were annoyed that as soon as they finally bought the book - wham - upgrade time.  Plus, we converted the campaign from 3.0e to 3.5e and that was annoying enough even though it was a really minor change.I too own a ton of 3.5e adventure material - an entire run of Dungeon magazines from the 3.0 conversion on for starters.  But unlike 2e, 3.5e is "good enough" for me and my group to play even if something better comes along.  So I'll just pull it off the shelf and run them that way.  (Much as I'm still willing to do with my Rules Cyclopedia -based games).</blockquote>

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