Hi all,

I'm toying with the scary notion of DMing again, and there are a few 3/3.5E products I'm considering using, however I'm clueless when it comes to converting version Z with X, hell I'm just plain out of my depth.  

Is there a site, a book, guidelines, anything out there?  I'd appreciate any advice including, "Don't. You'll only hurt yourself."

Best,

Paul

Paul, I recommend you post the Q to either Knights & Knaves @ http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb/ or Dragonsfoot @ http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/index.php

There are certainly folks here who actively play and have performed such conversions, but I think you'll also find good input at the above two sites.

PaulKM wrote:Hi all,

I'm toying with the scary notion of DMing again, and there are a few 3/3.5E products I'm considering using, however I'm clueless when it comes to converting version Z with X, hell I'm just plain out of my depth.  

Is there a site, a book, guidelines, anything out there?  I'd appreciate any advice including, "Don't. You'll only hurt yourself."

Best,

Paul

Hi Paul,

Over the past 3 or 4 years, I've done quite a few 3.x/d20 to 1st Edition AD&D conversions.  The scope of these conversions have ranged from taking a short 3.5 addy from Dungeon and converting it literally on the fly for my gaming group to doing full adventure conversions for 'in print' versions of the adventures.

I'd be glad to help you with any conversion effort you'd like to undertake.  I'm more than glad to offer general advice about how to approach doing conversions, or if you want more specific help with particular encounters or game elements or 'mechanics translations' I could help with that as well.  

If you're interested, lets take it offline.  Drop me a PM here at the Acaeum or send me an email at tacojohndm@yahoo.com.  We could even set up some time for a call as that might be more useful / effecient than trying to frame this up via email.  

Jon "tacojohn" Hershberger

PaulKM wrote:I'd appreciate any advice including, "Don't. You'll only hurt yourself."

Don't.  You'll only hurt yourself.  Well, technically an angry mongoose lemur will.  

While you're wasting time on that, you could be doing far more important things like....oh, I don't know...writing a post-apocalyptic setting.  

PaulKM wrote:However, from everyone's comments, conversion sounds like quite the chore.  Such a shame.

It's much, much worse going from 1e to 3.0 or 3.5, trust me.  You're going downhill when you're going from 4.0 or 3.x back to 1e

PaulKM wrote:Now I feel positively ill about the idea

Perhaps I wasn't clear:  downhill meaning easier to go downhill vs. the uphill battle of converting from AD&D to 3.x, which is much, much worse IMO (especially if you want to balance out the skills and feats properly).