Interest in an official Classic D&D ruleset

[JHale1966]

I used to visit EN World just for conversions to 3.5.

Did you buy the conversion guides from Classic Modules Today?

Looks like 3/29.

[Baron28]

I bought some of the 1e to 5E conversions off of DM Guild and they look pretty good. I picked up the G123, D123 and Q1. You have to have the original modules in order to use them so I'm 're-stocking' on those as well. Will probably also pick up A1-4 too.

What's the link to the DM's guild? I would by D1-3 and Q1. I don't really want to spend the time manually converting them.

[vodokar]

Baron28, just so you'll understand what the Classic Modules Today 5e conversions are. They are simply conversion notes on how to convert from 1e to 5e. You still need the original modules. And you would still need to add everything in fantasy grounds yourself.

[L. R. Ballard]

Looks like 3/29.

I don't understand.

[Baron28]

Baron28, just so you'll understand what the Classic Modules Today 5e conversions are. They are simply conversion notes on how to convert from 1e to 5e. You still need the original modules. And you would still need to add everything in fantasy grounds yourself.

Ah ok. The notes would save time. The tough thing is finding maps or creating maps.

[vodokar]

If you don't mind using the original maps, you can just scan them from the pdf of the original module. I just use Snippet, which is built into windows, but others might have better tools for snatching images.

[celestian]

Ah ok. The notes would save time. The tough thing is finding maps or creating maps.

Always Tho if you're ok with the old school blue/b&w it's not to hard. The PDFs being sold really make copy/paste text at least easier.

Thanks for the timescale on the builds tho. I was thinking of doing T1-4 and I was guessing about a week of my evenings and after seeing your comment it seems about right.

[vodokar]

Build time really depends on just how much you are wanting to do for yourself. It takes quite a bit longer to do a publication worthy modules, but if only doing for yourself, anywhere from 4 to 12 hours, depending on how much material is involved, and how perfect you need to make it for yourself, is not unreasonable.

[L. R. Ballard]

Build time really depends on just how much you are wanting to do for yourself. It takes quite a bit longer to do a publication worthy modules, but if only doing for yourself, anywhere from 4 to 12 hours, depending on how much material is involved, and how perfect you need to make it for yourself, is not unreasonable.

My goal is to do layouts of publishable quality. In the meantime, I'm converting FRE1 "Shadowdale" for Classic Modules Today. Before publishing the conversion guide for FRE1, I plan to lay out module-specific tables, encounters, items, and parcels on FG, then walk through it with pregens while rereading the module. Over the past two evenings, I've been building the four pregenerated PCs from FRE1 in FG. That task alone has taken almost seven hours. But the PCs are right out of the module with all stats, items, and even custom background notes based on their descriptions from the module. It is indeed a lot of work, and I'm both a professional editor and a perfectionist.

[JohnD]

A0 took me around 12 hours to do for C&C but I gave it the full treatment.