Has anyone starting converting Golarion to 5th edition? I am interested in running some APs using the D&D 5th edition rules. I started looking at converting the deities but have done much more yet. I thouhgt that there might be someone else out there considering the same thing.
I am sure there are some people who have. It shouldn't be too hard to just substitute 5th edition adversaries for most of the pre-APG APs, but it may be a bit more work with the APs that include the classes from APG and UM, and any monsters that aren't already in the 5th edition MM.
My only concern would be some of the lower level monsters seem more dangerous in 5E. Goblins, for instance, are +4 to hit and do 1d6+2 damage vs the +2 to hit and 1d4 damage of PF. Might make some situations, like the early parts of Rise of the Runelords, a lot more lethal. You'd either have to change up the numbers or really play up the "goblin antics" (ie terrible tactics) or risk some PC deaths in the initial raid.
Another option, I suppose, would be to leave the numbers as-is and maybe start the PCs at 2nd or 3rd level.
Its been said that levels 1 and 2 are more "apprentice levels". Thats why it requires so little XP to level up at those levels. Thats even what the Player's Handbook calls them.
In the first tier (levels 1-4), characters are effectively apprentice adventurers. They are learning the features that define them as members of particular classes, including the major choices that flavor their c1ass features as they advance (such as a wizard's Arcane Tradition or a fighter's Martial Archetype). The threats they face are relatively minor, usually posing a danger to local farmsteads or villages.
They aren't full-fledged adventures yet. They are still learning the basics.
Or you could use the pathfinder damage statistics if you fear your player characters will be killed. Such as the goblins doing 1d4 instead of the 1d6+2
Unless you play up the mentally unstable aspect of the goblins in Pathfinder, and only making them truly act every other turn (one round only 2 actually do something while the others are being idiotically insane, next round those 2 are being insane (if they survive) while some of the others actually do stuff, etc).
I feel like the hardest part of converting APs to 5th edition is figuring out what magic items to give the players. I would buy official Paizo converted APs.