What conversions of "classic" AD&D modules to Dungeon Fantasy have you done?

[ClayDowling]

Originally Posted by Toadkiller_Dog

I'm running Keep on the Borderlands, moderately modified, right now. It's going well, but you have to expect goblinoid foes to die horribly, in droves, with little or no effect on the PCs.

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After reading Goblin Hero, I'd love to launch a delve into those caverns with humanoid swarms rushing the PCs.

[Peter V. Dell'Orto]

Originally Posted by ClayDowling

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But back on the original topic, I've run a lot more than B2 with GURPS. I just haven't done it with DF. I've run so many D&D modules or bits of them with GURPS I couldn't list them all. I just can't vouch for how they run with GURPS Dungeon Fantasy.

[robertsconley]

Originally Posted by Toadkiller_Dog

But back on the original topic, I've run a lot more than B2 with GURPS. I just haven't done it with DF. I've run so many D&D modules or bits of them with GURPS I couldn't list them all. I just can't vouch for how they run with GURPS Dungeon Fantasy.

Probably the characters will have a lot more "endurance". Anytime I played or refereed going into a D&D module with 150 pt GURPS Characters it was pretty much a matter of dealing with a room, healing, resting, and then dealing with the next room, rinse, repeat.

Needless to say, there a premium put on stealth tactics. And because GURPS combat was more detailed and realistic than AD&D made it possible to one shot kill many things (but not all). There was a lot of investment in healing potions to get out of a fubar situation.

[korbeau]

AD&D to Gurps 4ed, i've run:

Menzoberranzan Box Set
Ruins of Myth Drannor Box set
Ravenloft Box set
When black roses bloom adventure
Van Richten guide to Vampire
Mystara's Night of the Vampire
Labyrinth of Madness
Planescape box Set

All of them are played with DF.

[Ed the Coastie]

*nods* In my experience, most D&D and AD&D modules just aren't designed to handle a 250-point GURPS Dungeon Fantasy character build, much less an entire party of them...not without beefing them up to the point that they start looking like the guy in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie who drank an entire flask of Jekyll's serum. If I were to try running one using DF, I would probably use 150-point characters from Eric B Smith's Dungeon Fantasy on the Cheap.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by Ed the Coastie

*nods* In my experience, most D&D and AD&D modules just aren't designed to handle a 250-point GURPS Dungeon Fantasy character build, much less an entire party of them...

Dpends on the party size. I think I had two players and an accompanying NPC for White Plume Mountain, but obviously my memory isn't the best for that stuff. D&D modules expect at least four players, even five, making them even better to run under DF, given the group sizes that adults with responsibilities can muster.

[Peter V. Dell'Orto]

Originally Posted by Rasputin

Dpends on the party size. I think I had two players and an accompanying NPC for White Plume Mountain, but obviously my memory isn't the best for that stuff. D&D modules expect at least four players, even five, making them even better to run under DF, given the group sizes that adults with responsibilities can muster.

And the level of the adventure. 250 point DFs can wax most humanoids in bunches with no problems, but critical hits, surprise, bad rolls, massed attacks, etc., can help a lot. And in higher level adventures, just remember that skill is also part of AD&D monster's stat (HD go up, and HP and to hit go up together) so scale that up too.

[donal]

Originally Posted by Ed the Coastie

*nods* In my experience, most D&D and AD&D modules just aren't designed to handle a 250-point GURPS Dungeon Fantasy character build, much less an entire party of them...not without beefing them up to the point that they start looking like the guy in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie who drank an entire flask of Jekyll's serum. If I were to try running one using DF, I would probably use 150-point characters from Eric B Smith's Dungeon Fantasy on the Cheap.

Good point – and I'm definitely using the 150 point limit for Against the Cult of the Reptile God, but allowing the unrealistic DF options.