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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3410068" data-attributes="member: 7533">Have you checked out any of the updated modules?  You can download two or three of them for free at Wizards right now.Here's what I can tell you...Yes, they do make changes...  But for the most part, the changes are small and practically meaningless to the overall module. They make the changes, so far as I've seen, for three reasons mainly A) verisimilitude, which the original were often sorely lacking in, B) to highlight a rule or two from a particularly new sourcebook, in which case they make it easy to leave out, or C) the adventure happens as more of a sequel to the original, making it more of a "Return to..." adventure, than a straight conversion.The converted <a href="http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20051207a" target="_blank">White Plume Mountain</a> had many changes due to reason A). Things like...  [sblock]"He also enjoyed allowing the gynosphinx to make full use of her symbol spell-like abilities to ensure that PCs who refuse to play along with the riddle game will regret that choice.""...she decided to strive for better balance in area 5, which had at first offered an inappropriately high Challenge Rating (because all five flesh golems would attack players who chose incorrectly) and reward (because the correct golem didn't just open the door for PCs; it also became their servant).""In addition, Gwendolyn transformed the anachronistic turnstile, which had been universally despised for its arbitrariness, into the far more dungeon-appropriate mimic portcullis.""Figuring that no one would fall for the sexy kelpies that had originally inhabited the watery room, he chose to recast that encounter as a more straight-up fight with some nasty surprises.""He found it particularly interesting that in D&D v.3.5, it's no longer necessary to create such arbitrary rules as, "No one could walk through" the spinning cylinder, or to give a monstrous vermin a magic ring to make it immune to mind-affecting effects."[/sblock]The conversion of <a href="http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20051031a" target="_blank">Tomb of Horrors</a> was actually almost a straight up conversion, I found.  It added several areas, traps and encounters that used rules and monsters from Libris Mortis, but almost all of those parts were additions, which I could simply ignore, with only one exception...[sblock]The siren in the misty room was assumed to have "escaped" at some point...  probably when some previous adventurers let her follow them out...  and was replaced with some other nasty lady creature from Libris Mortis. I simply found the stats for a siren, and replaced them.[/sblock]Finally, the conversion for <a href="http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20070223a" target="_blank">Temple of the Frog</a> is actually billed as Return to the Temple of the Frog, and is fully meant to be a sequel to the original.In other words, don't knock it 'til you've tried it.And besides, these, at least, are free to download...  If you don't like them, ignore them.  It's not like you paid good money for them.</blockquote>

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