It's not clear whether, or how, 5e might expect me to recalibrate those statistics and features. As written, the objective has what I perceive to be an outsize pile of HP, plus additional defensive features (taking reduced damage from certain sources, etc.) arising from how 3.5e treated entities in the nature of this objective. 34-35), but I'm not sure how those statistics translate to 5e. RHoD provides 3.5e combat statistics for the objective (see p. At the same time, it's not as simple as an ability check that I can just eyeball. Skull Gorge Bridge, where the PCs are tasked with destroying the eponymous bridge while facing heavy resistance.īecause this objective isn't a monster, I can't simply turn to stock 5e monsters and assume all the calibration will have been done for me. The encounter in question, arising near the end of Part I, is However, the PCs are coming up on a critical encounter with a major non-combat objective that presents special conversion problems. Likewise, I've been winging ability checks and other non-combat challenges just by eyeballing how hard the stated 3.5e DCs likely would've been and using my best judgment to apply 5e DCs of roughly similar probability given bounded accuracy. I've been keeping the basic combat encounter structures and simply swapping out 3.5e monsters for similarly-named 5e monsters (3.5e hobgoblins for 5e hobgoblins, 3.5e manticores for 5e manticores, etc.). So far it has been effortlessly straightforward. I'm running D&D 3.5e's Red Hand of Doom updated for 5e.

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