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<blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 8046228" data-attributes="member: 6776887"><p>Episode 9 is close to release, and the last three adventures will continue to be released over the following months.</p><p></p><p>There have been some fairly complex parts to convert in the last few adventures. Some of these include:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Massive combats with dozens of enemies. This worked in 3.5 as the high level heroes could slice through everyone, but 5e is meant to run more quickly than the time it would take to defeat all the bad guys, and there is a decent chance that the heroes would take some significant damage an not be able to continue on the timetable that the adventure was written around.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Massive combat with <em>hundreds</em> of units. I spent some time figuring out a system for squads of soldiers that allows the GM to look up average damage against a squad's target without needing to roll for attack or damage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Set pieces for heavy hitting enemies. The 5e version of WotBS has a sliding difficulty scale on encounters to accommodate large and small groups. A lot of times, this is an easy prospect as you just add or subtract some enemies, but sometimes the story does not really allow for that. In those cases, I essentially write 3 versions of the NPC in the encounter (normal, large group of heroes, small group of heroes) and then include instructions for how to adjust the NPC between those. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Figuring out how to adjust difficulty in an encounter with eight participants whose names are set.</li> </ul><p>With all the new features that are adding something to vanilla 5e, sometimes the solution to something comes up later than when it was first released (like how to make inquisitors masters of <em>counterspell</em>). You should follow the following resource to keep up with any changes. It contains errata, including some things that have not yet been updated in the released versions of adventures.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/resources/wotbs-errata.1572/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tormyr, post: 8046228, member: 6776887"] Episode 9 is close to release, and the last three adventures will continue to be released over the following months. There have been some fairly complex parts to convert in the last few adventures. Some of these include: [LIST] [*]Massive combats with dozens of enemies. This worked in 3.5 as the high level heroes could slice through everyone, but 5e is meant to run more quickly than the time it would take to defeat all the bad guys, and there is a decent chance that the heroes would take some significant damage an not be able to continue on the timetable that the adventure was written around. [*]Massive combat with [I]hundreds[/I] of units. I spent some time figuring out a system for squads of soldiers that allows the GM to look up average damage against a squad's target without needing to roll for attack or damage. [*]Set pieces for heavy hitting enemies. The 5e version of WotBS has a sliding difficulty scale on encounters to accommodate large and small groups. A lot of times, this is an easy prospect as you just add or subtract some enemies, but sometimes the story does not really allow for that. In those cases, I essentially write 3 versions of the NPC in the encounter (normal, large group of heroes, small group of heroes) and then include instructions for how to adjust the NPC between those. [*]Figuring out how to adjust difficulty in an encounter with eight participants whose names are set. [/LIST] With all the new features that are adding something to vanilla 5e, sometimes the solution to something comes up later than when it was first released (like how to make inquisitors masters of [I]counterspell[/I]). You should follow the following resource to keep up with any changes. It contains errata, including some things that have not yet been updated in the released versions of adventures. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/resources/wotbs-errata.1572/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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