5E D&D & Pathfinder

[ijenpat]

I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but I'm asking anyway. I have a group of players that LOVE D&D 5E. They want me to run a game, but I'm not fond of the 5E adventures, so I wanted to run a Pathfinder AP. Is there a way to somehow combine the two? Use the 5E books for character creation? Anything? I'm grasping at straws here. I really don't want to use the program I've been using. thanks

[epithet]

I'm running a D&D 3.5e adventure path using 5e, and it's really easy. You'll have to set everything up yourself, but if you have the monster books purchased as FG modules setting up encounters is just drag, drop, and go. If you need to convert or adjust something for a particular encounter, NPC Engineer (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?45630-Engineer-Suite) makes it super easy, and if you are unsure about tuning an encounter based on party strength just run the numbers in Kobold Fight Club (https://kobold.club/fight/#/encounter-builder) (takes seconds.)

I use the treasure parcel generator from the DMG module in Fantasy Grounds to create parcels, but I edit them to add thematic or important things from the adventure and to remove anything that will make my life more complicated in upcoming adventures in the path.

When I first started this campaign I was working to convert everything. It was a giant pain, so I would suggest that you not do that. Don't convert when you can replace, or reskin.

Oh, one other thing I found useful is the Planar Bestiary from Chris "Goober" Ramsley (https://www.dmsguild.com/product/193100/Planar-Bestiary), which has reasonable conversions of a lot of the planar creatures that 5e hasn't gotten around to publishing yet. You can run those through NPC Engineer to get them into Fantasy Grounds, quick and easy.

[Nylanfs]

You can also use the extension that lets you open other ruleset modules on different systems, but you can only really use the images and story, NPC's items, etc will not translate over well (if at all).

[damned]

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?41034-Universal-Module-Extension