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<blockquote data-quote="Luce" data-source="post: 2153516" data-attributes="member: 29760"><p>1. yes for a time. One solution is to give a very good explanation why "the rules" changed. Luckily my group was just in the process of completing "Die, Vecna, die." Which involves a diety level creature excaping his prison and trying to rework the universe in his own design. This can have preaty wild effect on magic(since he patrons magic and sicrets). For sorcerers, psyonics etc classes that were not avaliable. well make it so they were there all along in the campaign, just the playeres did not know they from the given class. the idea is give some explanation for the chages.</p><p></p><p>2. I tryed to rework some of my favorites from Dungeon mag "Forgoten man" "Cum Keratic cum amor" (it is loosely tied to White Plume M. and in the same region geograficaly)(dungeon 71 &75 I beleave). The thing is they do not scale so well. In the first 10level party is supposed to go against 18l lich. In the other ~14 level party is against epic (29l I think) undead mage.(<Side note>One of the things which still anoys me is limited scope of CR a party can face in 3.X, in 2ed players are chalenged wheter they fight bugbears or an adult dragon at 10level. That is to say, i like the rules of 3ed, but miss the evocative feelings that prevous editions caused</Side note>)</p><p></p><p>RttToH if played using the 3ed version of the monsteres is very high(16-18)(18level mage vampire) to epic (30+) level adventure. Dark ball, demilich, winterwight are all in the ELH.</p><p></p><p>You might also want to take a look at story hour section of the boards, there were people who run conversions of Borderlands and RttToH(with some chages and twists, but still general enough to pilfer ideas from.</p><p></p><p>Lastly, while 2ed is not longer supported, there are still a lot of matherials in circulation that you can find cheap on ebay, so may be you could continue to run 2ed campaign for the dedicated fans.(I often run some older modules, when only one or two people show up for game night-I take out some pregenerated char let my friends choose 2-3 and run a 2ed section)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Luce, post: 2153516, member: 29760"] 1. yes for a time. One solution is to give a very good explanation why "the rules" changed. Luckily my group was just in the process of completing "Die, Vecna, die." Which involves a diety level creature excaping his prison and trying to rework the universe in his own design. This can have preaty wild effect on magic(since he patrons magic and sicrets). For sorcerers, psyonics etc classes that were not avaliable. well make it so they were there all along in the campaign, just the playeres did not know they from the given class. the idea is give some explanation for the chages. 2. I tryed to rework some of my favorites from Dungeon mag "Forgoten man" "Cum Keratic cum amor" (it is loosely tied to White Plume M. and in the same region geograficaly)(dungeon 71 &75 I beleave). The thing is they do not scale so well. In the first 10level party is supposed to go against 18l lich. In the other ~14 level party is against epic (29l I think) undead mage.(<Side note>One of the things which still anoys me is limited scope of CR a party can face in 3.X, in 2ed players are chalenged wheter they fight bugbears or an adult dragon at 10level. That is to say, i like the rules of 3ed, but miss the evocative feelings that prevous editions caused</Side note>) RttToH if played using the 3ed version of the monsteres is very high(16-18)(18level mage vampire) to epic (30+) level adventure. Dark ball, demilich, winterwight are all in the ELH. You might also want to take a look at story hour section of the boards, there were people who run conversions of Borderlands and RttToH(with some chages and twists, but still general enough to pilfer ideas from. Lastly, while 2ed is not longer supported, there are still a lot of matherials in circulation that you can find cheap on ebay, so may be you could continue to run 2ed campaign for the dedicated fans.(I often run some older modules, when only one or two people show up for game night-I take out some pregenerated char let my friends choose 2-3 and run a 2ed section) [/QUOTE]
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