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    Quote Originally Posted by dudeslife View Post
    I guess the more accurate question would be a is there a repository for 5e FG conversion notes, etc for old school modules or a guide?
    I ran mine for Castles&Crusades which is very close to 1e in character progression and ability so for the goodman games adventures I just swapped them like for like straight from the C&C Monsters&Treasure book
    For the Red Hand of Doom I still used like for like monsters - I had to create a few from the back of the book - but I did have to do some scaling - there is a fair amount of sandbox in that module so the players can visit things in different orders and I discarded strict XP based progression and leveled the party up as they hit certain milestones...
    There are quite a few websites that do some very strict calculations on monster conversions - Im not that strict...

    For 5e with casters having decent cantrips and everyone able to do more healing I think you would be buffing these encounters up a bit... If I havent got the scaling right for a major encounter I will reduce the HP of a couple of monsters or if its too easy I will have reinforcements arrive a couple of rounds in and the players are all exposed and vulnerable to being ambushed...

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    I am certain that there are a few conversion documents out there online. As far as I can tell, these are just one person's opinion on what is appropriate... in this case, why not just use your own opinion (I say that realizing it can be difficult in the beginning stages until you figure out your balance).

    For C&C I've always just converted straight from source material to it 1:1 and never had a problem (well, the players may have had a problem but that's completely different).
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    This is very helpful:

    https://media.wizards.com/2015/downl...rsions_1.0.pdf

    I ran these as published (first edition rules) using the OSRIC ruleset, which is looking very dated now but worked great. I didn't really put much into FG to run these - maps and npcs mainly.

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    As I stated before I have the hard copies of most of the old 1st ed. modules. I have been working on creating a FG story entry for 1st ed. AD&D's A1 - Secret of the Slaver's Stockade to be used with the Castles & Crusades ruleset. Looking at how much time this is taking however, i cannot help wondering would it not be far easier to only enter into the FG story/module the text required to be read to players that normally drops into the chat box, to link the maps, create the encounters and place the C&C versions of the monsters within, and just use the hardcopy module to read and keep to hand while running the session. I would have thought it should make no difference to your players. Has anyone any experience of this who could advise if this is just as good or whether I am missing something by doing it this way?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dmkevin View Post
    Looking at how much time this is taking however, i cannot help wondering would it not be far easier to only enter into the FG story/module the text required to be read to players that normally drops into the chat box, to link the maps, create the encounters and place the C&C versions of the monsters within, and just use the hardcopy module to read and keep to hand while running the session. I would have thought it should make no difference to your players. Has anyone any experience of this who could advise if this is just as good or whether I am missing something by doing it this way?
    This is absolutely the way to go. Setup the base stuff you need in FG: stories, maps, handouts to share. Then the stuff you need for FG automation: NPCs, Encounters, Items and Treasure parcels, Quests, etc..
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    You may even omit the story entries if you are taking too long on it. You are reading those to the players - you can read them from any source.

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    Thanks very much Trenloe and Damned,

    I am much relieved in going forward after both of your very helpful replies.

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    I sold off all my hard copies of 1st edition stuff years ago (Kick in the ARSE again). I have been getting everything again in PDF form and being able to cut/paste into FG makes entering all the story stuff really easy.

    Might be worth scanning your books in and seeing if that speeds things up a bit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jshauber View Post
    Might be worth scanning your books in and seeing if that speeds things up a bit.
    If you do that, make sure you use scanning software with OCR. If not, you'll just get images of each page and will not be able to select / copy text.

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