You may even convert those from 1st or 2nd edition. Wizards of the Coast posted a short 4 page article about conversion from previous editions of D&D to 5th edition.
The DMG almost helps, but the hitpoints it lists seem too high. To be clear, what I am asking for is a way to convert a CR 2 creature from 3E into a CR 2 creature from 5E. Am I doing something wrong? Am I wrongly expecting the CR to convert over a little more directly? For comparison, the Goblin Boss, a CR 1 from the MM, has 21 hit points. However all other CR 2 creatures I've looked at in 5e books have far more hit points, and CR 1 creatures tend to have more hit points than that.
312, if anyone has the book) got converted over with only 18 hit points, and all the guides I'm finding seem to say that's correct. I've found a few guides ( like this one) but all of their methods for converting hit points leaves the monster with far too few hit points as far as I'm concerned.įor example, a CR 2 creature from the adventure (the Warforged Rogue on pg. However, a big sticking point I'm finding is getting the enemies properly converted into 5e's rules. I'm trying to convert The Forgotten Forge from the back of the Eberron book into 5th Edition to run it, and right now I'm trying to get the enemies inside it converted over, using the UA article as a guide in some places.
