How would YOU change Shadowdark?

Whizbang Dustyboots said:

But there are DMs who want to run TSR adventures RAW and have a hard time, emotionally, changing anything to fit Shadowdark.

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overgeeked said:

Sorry. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious to people with more experience with the game, but why wouldn't you just use the Shadowdark treasure rules? Like when I'm running an old module I use it as a rough blueprint but use the current system we're playing for the monster stats, treasure, etc. Do others not do that as a default?

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overgeeked said:

Right. Maybe I'm not explaining it well.

The old module says there's some monsters and treasure in the room.

The referee has two choices:

1) Use what's written and try to make it work in a different system, i.e. mod things to work "good enough" in the new system, or; 2) Use the new system.

So why not just use ignore what the module says about the quantity of loot and instead go with what Shadowdark says? What level are the PCs or the module and roll on the appropriate Shadowdark treasure table instead of using what's in the module. Seems like that would be dramatically less work than trying to convert the loot from TSR-era D&D to Shadowdark. Same with monsters. The module says orcs, okay...so use the Shadowdark orc stats.

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DarkCrisis said:

Which again is work. Either way the DM has to go over every treasure and encounter and change it one way or another to fit Shadowdark. I started doing that on a 2E mega adventure and gave up halfway through because I was tired of spending so much time editing it to SDarks xp and treasures.

Or just change the xp system to Basic or AD&D (which ever fits you better) and use the Fighter XP totals, which I should have done int he 2E adventure but didn't think of it then.

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DarkCrisis said:

Which again is work. Either way the DM has to go over every treasure and encounter and change it one way or another to fit Shadowdark. I started doing that on a 2E mega adventure and gave up halfway through because I was tired of spending so much time editing it to SDarks xp and treasures.

Or just change the xp system to Basic or AD&D (which ever fits you better) and use the Fighter XP totals, which I should have done int he 2E adventure but didn't think of it then.

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Reynard said:

Or just use Shadowdark adventures...

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DarkCrisis said:

True. I eagerly await something mega-ish to come down the pike.

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