 November 18, 2007 - 3:05pm | Hiya. I posted this on the Paizo boards, but haven't really gotten much out of it. Is anyone here familiar with the "Age of Worms" 'adventure path' that Paizo (www.paizo.com) put out in Dungeon magazine? Its for 3rd edition D&D, but I thought "Worms...Sathar...why not?". I haven't read more than the first 3 adventures (the only 3 PDF's of them I own currently; I'll pick up the rest if I get this thing going). Anyway, I'm "test converting" the first module ([i]The Whispering Cairn[/i]) into an SF adventure. I placed Greyhawk City on it's own planet (planet Greyhawk...for now) that I've written up as an 'edge of the frontier' planet that has been more or less forgotton by the general Federation at large. I'm working in that the main bad guy(s) in the adventure path are Sathar, and the 'Wind Dukes' are/were a coalition of 'long lost and forgotton coalition of good guys'. I'm having to do a bit of background work on the Sathar, but that's a large part of the fun I get from GM'ing. :) Anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyone ever 'convert' other system adventures to SF? Which ones, and how did it turn out? ^_^ "...It's all in the reflexes..." Paul L. Ming |
 November 18, 2007 - 3:50pm | People are converting stuff all the time (no adventures until you). I even started a d20 Conversions project for developing a system for converting d20 to Star Frontiers and visa versa. There's also the Fantasy Frontiers project that it sounds like the original module would go well with. |
 November 21, 2007 - 6:49am | that sounds like alot of fun!! Mess with the fish....you get the bone!!! |
 November 21, 2007 - 7:45am | hey Ebek, Time flies when your having rum. Im a government employee, I dont goof-off. I constructively abuse my time. |
 November 23, 2007 - 5:47pm | Kudos! Great idea! Maybe you will submit it to the fantasy frontiers node as a test module? @}-,-`- "It is a joyful thing indeed to hold intimate converse with a man after one’s own heart, chatting without reserve about things of interest or the fleeting topics of the world; but such, alas, are few and far between." – Yoshida Kenko (1283-1350), [i]Tsurezure-Gusa (1340) |
December 2, 2007 - 10:24am | Hiya. Sorry I haven't replied in a while...kinda got caught up in a slew of other things. :) Anyway...when I get the first "module" done (I'm currently doing a quick write up of Diamond Lake; the starting mining town of the adventure series), I'll be sure to post info and whatnot. My general strategy for conversion is simple: take the intent, convert. I'm not worried about a precise #:# ratio or anything like that. I want to be able to quickly 'convert' the d20 stuff to SF. As long as I'm consistant, I think I'll be ok. Well, back to work on this thing! :) ^_^ "...It's all in the reflexes..." Paul L. Ming |
 December 5, 2007 - 12:33pm | Wow... I know that adventure path well. I'm not sure how some of the elements could convert (and I'm not talking game mechanics, but genre). After all the AoW is all about the "resurrection" of a demigod... I guess I'd do it as a far-reaching plot by the sathar through their agents in the Frontier to open the way for them to sweep in and conquer. Unless, that is, you're going for a Fantasy Frontier feel; if so, go for it! Sathar demigods away! Long live the Frontier! |
 December 5, 2007 - 9:21pm | I always had a D&D/SF connection on the back burner. In my loose interpretation, the connection is a black hole. A SF starship would plot a jump "into" the black hole and that would bring the vessel far from home, to where the D&D worlds are. It was my basic backstory for the S3 Expedition to the Barier Peaks module, which was a pre-UPF craft that accidently made the jump discovery but crashed on the D&D world before capitalizing on the discovery. Inever really got too far on the conversions or follow through, but that was the basic plot. |
December 6, 2007 - 12:30am | Wow... I know that adventure path well. I'm not sure how some of the elements could convert (and I'm not talking game mechanics, but genre). After all the AoW is all about the "resurrection" of a demigod... I guess I'd do it as a far-reaching plot by the sathar through their agents in the Frontier to open the way for them to sweep in and conquer. Unless, that is, you're going for a Fantasy Frontier feel; if so, go for it! Sathar demigods away! They could be attempting to resurrect a world-destroying machine instead. |
 December 16, 2007 - 9:08am | I remember in the 80's, my GM ran my SF group through S3 after we finished the Voltunus Series... Basically, we were contacted to go and explore the ruins of newly discovered alien shipwreck. However, some sort of strange electromagnetic field still emanated from the ship which prevented the use of any electronics - thus, little-to-no high tech stuff. That's right, all back to using out spear skills developed during our original encounters with the Ul-mor! What fun times!! -Andrew |
