My boys wanted to play our 5e game, but we were a player down, so I suggested we wrap up our 3e game. That didn't go over as well to be honest.
Both boys said they were burned out on 3e and everything took so long compared to 5e. I reminded them that their 3e characters are nearing Epic levels and all combats will take forever at that level.
So long story short, we all decided to convert the 3e game to something else. I was pushing pretty hard for 1st Ed but the boys wanted 5th ed. I cant say that I blame them really.
Converting adventures is easy. I do that on the fly 90% of the time anyway. Converting characters is a bit more involved. The group's wizard converted fine. For the paladin/dragon-rider we went with a straight paladin. The rogue/ranger/sorcerer/arcane archer required me to get more creative. In 5e the character became a rogue (arcane trickster)/ranger (hunter). I let him take spells from the sorcerer list or the druid list where appropriate for the character concept and what he had been able to do in the past.
My 3.e Witch GMPC was more difficult. I started out by converting her to a Warlock with a pact of the Tome feature. This gives me access to more spells. I then took the Magic Initiate feat and the Ritual Caster feat to gain some extra spells. I like it, but I am not 100% happy with it.
It occurs to me that that old 2nd Ed Witch Kit and the 4th Ed Witch "sub" class might be good starting points for what a 5th ed witch might look like using the wizard as a base.
I compared the Wizard and Warlock in form of Skylla for 5th a while back. With her I Was happier with the Wizard build even though the Warlock build had some interesting things going for it.
It is worth a little extra research. I am NOT in the market to build a 5e Witch class right now. I still have other commitments to finish. Plus I enjoy playing 5e and not necessarily having to play and play-test with the same game.
Besides I think I would like to see some other people's take on a witch class.
I like the different color character sheets. Do the colors mean anything? Is that the standard 53 sheet format?
ReplyDeleteThey are just the ones the kids like the best.
ReplyDeleteThough the orange one is for the wizard since he is a "fire" wizard.
I just printed out the PDF that WotC has on their site.
The biggest pitfall I've had in converting things from 3.X to 5 is monsters or PC's that have "save or effect" abilities, because saving throws in 5 don't scale up as they do in earlier editions.
ReplyDeleteThat means that a few staple low-level monsters in 3.X like ghouls and carrion crawlers are devastatingly dangerous in 5E.
Looking forward to the day my kids are old enough to play ANY version of D&D.
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