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I have been reading through the Gamemastery edition, particularly st the creature building rules. While I can grasp them for entirely new creations, I am totally at a loss for "translating" creatures from 1st edition. I desperately need advice here. For sake of argument, I was looking specifically at the Drow fighter, which seems to (at least to me) defy the translation tips given.

Could someone who has had success translating a creature from 1st ed. perhaps spare a little bit of time and walk me through converting the Drow between the two editions? It would save my sanity, which is fleeting the more I look at the rules.I'm in danger of becoming the next sacrifice to the underdark...

In the spirit of keeping things safe from extraplanar and alignment based intrusion, I was wondering what the second edition equivalence would be to the Forbiddance spell. This could be a series of spells cast with no duration (or infinite duration) and could cover spells, focuses and Rituals. I couldn't find a direct 1 to 1 spell conversion, and feel that it should be a higher level Ritual, instead of a 6th level cleric spell. Any input mould be greatly appreciated.