 December 6, 2007 - 8:00pm | Last night, I was thinking about how conversions should take place. It occurred to me that the focus should be more on advice on converting. If there is anything that can be converted straight across, then we should do that, but for things where it's a matter of splitting hairs, we should help the player/GM/Referee determine how hairs should be split. There's also the possibility that it may be necessary to provide two sets of conversion rules: one for converting to d20 and one for converting to d100. |
 June 30, 2009 - 5:43pm | I discovered providing sample conversions is the best way. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 July 1, 2009 - 2:37pm | Agreed. "You're everything that's base in humanity," Cochrane continued. "Drawing up strict, senseless rules for the sole reason of putting you at the top and excluding anyone you say doesn't belong or fit in, for no other reason than just because you say so." —Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stephens, Federation |
 January 4, 2011 - 10:45am | Simple conversions work well for such things as attribute bonuses, but for other things Such as weapon or creature attack damage here's a simple solution, divide maximum damage that a weapon or creature attack by 5 and find the appropriate die, so that a weapon or creature attack that causes 4-40 points of damage in Star frontiers would cause 4d8 in the d20 system. The proportunate damage compared to the average character should be about right. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
January 5, 2011 - 5:27pm | Thanks, Deryn. Would that be because of the modifier madness in the d20 system and the lack thereof in Star Frontiers. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
January 5, 2011 - 6:55pm | I'm thinking of the average Star Frontier's character having a 45 Stamina which is the same as a first level character in D&D with 9 hit points. so an attack that does 1-40 points in Star Frontiers would be like doing 1d8 points of damage in D&D which comes out about right. D&D did go a little modifier crazy didn't it? There's something to say about the simplicity of pre 3rd edition game mechanics like AD&D, basic D&D, and Star Frontiers. I think that the best thing to do in any conversion is try to keep conversions as simple as possible, and what worked for me was to strip the d20 rules to the core mechanics, and rebuild it from there. The core mechanics being... 10 + attribute modifier + circumstance modifier vs difficulty d20 + attribute modifier + circumstance modifier vs difficulty Then you just keep the circumstance modifiers from bogging down the game by making the circumstance modifiers broad in scope to cover most circumstances without having to many of them, and if all else fails a circumstance modifier of +2/-2 will always suffice. Everything else should be built up from there. I hope that helps. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
January 5, 2011 - 7:00pm | Yeah, stripping it down to its most basic mechanics was the conclusion I came to too. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
