How do you revise 3.5 stats to 4e

[Froogleyboy]

I was at my local hobby shop an hour ago when my friend Nathan told me he was feeling sick and he asked if id run his 4E campaign. He said he didn't have a quest for the team and i could run my stuff. All my stuff is 3.5 and I have 2 hours untill the game so how do I change 3.5 tats to 4E?

[Waspinator]

You really don't. 4E is completely different than 3.5E and it's not as much "revise" as "build new characters and monsters that resemble the old ones".

[Thajocoth]

I've never played 3.5 before, but I've heard that in 3.5 monster and player stats weren't so incredibly different as they are now. How long do you have to plan? You might want to start plans over with 4e in mind.

There's a handy guide in the DMG for how much an enemy should have of HP, AC, Defenses, to-hit AC, to-hit other defenses, damage dealt by attacks, ect... Then it says to fudge the numbers a bit when done. That'll work for anything you can't find in the Monster Manual. You can also build enemy versions of the PHB's player classes from another section in the DMG if that helps.

[Theodoriph]

He had two hours until his friend's campaign started. :smalltongue: He should be running it right now...if he managed to pull something out.

[Eldariel]

He had two hours until his friend's campaign started. :smalltongue: He should be running it right now...if he managed to pull something out.

And this, my friends, is precisely why you should never leave home without a hat.

[bosssmiley]

And this, my friends, is precisely why you should never leave home without a hat.

...or a copy of Microlite d20 (http://microlite20.net/). :smallwink:

[ericgrau]

There are several recent guides at www.wizards.com for this. But they basically involve recreating characters, and it doesn't cover monsters. For monsters I'd just find a 4e monster manual. I don't think you can remake everything in 2 hours.

EDIT: Oh time's up already.

[Waspinator]

That's basically what I was saying. There is not way to directly convert like you could going from 3.0 to 3.5. For 3.5 to 4.0, you basically have to just decide what the general concept and important abilities of the old character or monster are and make a new 4.0 one that is similar.

[Lycan 01]

So... how did it go? :smallconfused:

[monty]

And this, my friends, is precisely why you should never leave home without a hat towel.

Fixed for you.