I've been thinking of buying the 3.5 supplement "Dungeons and Dragons Adventure - Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde" and i was wondering, how easy/difficult would it be to convert the whole supplement to Pathfinder? Is it worth buying it to convert or should i just not get it?
Thanks in advance,
Akatori
I have it. I ran it as 3.5 game. We really enjoyed the adventure. I cant imagine it would be that hard to convert, as the bulk of the rules are the same. Mny monsters from it should be eas to find already converted.
I just ran this game in Pathfinder. The easiest way to convert is to find a Pathfinder equivalent of the monsters in the PF Bestiary. Some of the critters are unique and you'll need to get creative there.
Also, the storyline is a little skeletal. You'll need to flesh it out a bit. The mod gives you 3 extensive dungeons and the ghost of a story. You'll need to put in some time on your own to come up with recurring NPCs and a motivation as to why the party is exploring the dungeons. In the mod they're doing it for money, and not very much. The motivation in the story is lacking.
Also, it's very hard. The first dungeon seemed fine. The 2nd a little tough. The 3rd is friggin' impossible. My characters gave up and didn't finish the last dungeon because it was suicide. I've read several reviews of the mod and everybody else says the same thing. You'll need to pay extra attention to that part.
Another complaint I have is that there's not a big bad guy and a climactic battle ending. I had Baron Surinak end up as a recurring bad guy that the players encountered several times. You can run the story that Surinak is working with Drow to open a gate to another plane. At the end you find that he succeeded and you find him dead, killed by a demon he summoned--cue climactic final battle to decide the fate of the world.
Playing once a week, we finished the campaign in 3 months. I had to throw in side-treks in between the dungeons to level the party up to where they needed to be. A player got bit by a wererat in the first dungeon. I had a sidetrek where they needed to take out a wererat thieves' guild in order to get the character cured(again I needed to create my own motivation). The wererats were working with Surinak and that's where I introduced him.
In between the 2nd and 3rd dungeons I had a nephew of Surinak, an evil cleric, attempting to raise zombies from the bones of demons left over from the war. Evil Clerics in PF are brutal.
You can download the PDFs for it for free(4shared.com). Who pays for 3rd edition material anymore? The best part of Pathfinder is being able to easily convert 3e material that's free. I'm about to start Red Hand of Doom and Expedition to Castle Ravenloft--downloaded 'em both for free.
I've been thinking of buying the 3.5 supplement "Dungeons and Dragons Adventure - Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde" and i was wondering, how easy/difficult would it be to convert the whole supplement to Pathfinder? Is it worth buying it to convert or should i just not get it?
Thanks in advance,
Akatori
Its pretty easy on the fly to convert, the hardest part is the NPC classed mooks as PF class abilities have had some significant changes. At levels 1-5 this is a breeze regardless as the classes dont have all that many abilities yet.
Dont go crazy on skills, I pretty much see Hide +6 for example, i just visually make it Stealth +6, etc.
Other than that give everyone a CMB and CMD score if they dont have PF Bestiary listings and remember changes to the Poison mechanic and you are good to go.
I ran slaughtergarde in 3.5, found it to be a pretty good adventure. I set it in the Valley of the Mage in Greyhawk (perfect fit) back then.