How do I go about switching my 4E campaign to pathfinder? - Downloaded from the Wizards Community, all coding removed by Solauren

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#1 panosl Dec 03, 2011 18:52:57	No I don't want an edition war just advice. My group is currently in a 4E Dark Sun campaign at level four. I'm going to wrap up this segment on it in a couple of sessions and then I want to switch systems to pathfinder because I want to try it out and feel it's more suitable. How do I go about transferring characters from one system to the other? I'm thinking of lowering their level because the cap in pathfinder is lower than 4E but I don't want the players to feel like they've stepped backwards. I'll still let them keep all their equipment and gold I'll just port it over to whatever the equivalent is barring some odd cases. Anyobdy have any experience of this and how to do it?
#2 salla Dec 03, 2011 21:38:06	The systems are too different to do anything resembling a direct translation. Either try to get the basic feel of the characters, or probably the better option, put your DS game on hiatus and make brand-new PF characters.
#3 slobo777a Dec 04, 2011 3:52:44	I'll second Salla. You'll spend far too long on any conversion, and the games play very differently - good and bad can be said about both systems. Just run two campaigns (in fact I would do the opposite of converting - I'd pick two different settings on purpose, to avoid comparisons of power level and effects, and concentrate on game play).
#4 panosl Dec 04, 2011 13:20:42	Yeah I'd rather not do this. Our group is already far too established into this campaign world for us to start an entirely new campaign and I've put too much effort in just to scrap everything. But I'm tired of 4E and want the realistic feel of Pathfinder as the gamey, tactical 4E doesn't work very well for the campaign. I think my basic idea is just to have everybody remake their characters in pathfinder with x amount of level appropriate gold and we'll just carry on as normal from there. Thanks for your input anyway.

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panosl

Dec 03, 2011 18:52:57

No I don't want an edition war just advice.

My group is currently in a 4E Dark Sun campaign at level four. I'm going to wrap up this segment on it in a couple of sessions and then I want to switch systems to pathfinder because I want to try it out and feel it's more suitable.

How do I go about transferring characters from one system to the other? I'm thinking of lowering their level because the cap in pathfinder is lower than 4E but I don't want the players to feel like they've stepped backwards. I'll still let them keep all their equipment and gold I'll just port it over to whatever the equivalent is barring some odd cases.

Anyobdy have any experience of this and how to do it?

salla

Dec 03, 2011 21:38:06

The systems are too different to do anything resembling a direct translation. Either try to get the basic feel of the characters, or probably the better option, put your DS game on hiatus and make brand-new PF characters.

slobo777a

Dec 04, 2011 3:52:44

I'll second Salla.

You'll spend far too long on any conversion, and the games play very differently - good and bad can be said about both systems. Just run two campaigns (in fact I would do the opposite of converting - I'd pick two different settings on purpose, to avoid comparisons of power level and effects, and concentrate on game play).

panosl

Dec 04, 2011 13:20:42

Yeah I'd rather not do this. Our group is already far too established into this campaign world for us to start an entirely new campaign and I've put too much effort in just to scrap everything. But I'm tired of 4E and want the realistic feel of Pathfinder as the gamey, tactical 4E doesn't work very well for the campaign.

I think my basic idea is just to have everybody remake their characters in pathfinder with x amount of level appropriate gold and we'll just carry on as normal from there.

Thanks for your input anyway.