Re: Till All Are One

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Mar 26, 2012; 11:55am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Till-All-Are-One-tp7403225p7405640.html

First up, this really belongs in the Space Crusade section but ...

 ^if you post your rules with the points values in the Space Crusade section I'll add them to the blips

now converting between systems ...

I'm going to start by saying it's not easy and it's rarely accurate - no conversion system will be able to do 100% accurate conversions all the time. The underlying problem is that different writers and designers will have different ideas of the powers and capabilities of certain troop types, monsters and so on. Add to this the constant upgrading and re-writing certain popular games have gone though over the years and you've got even more variables to deal with. Another more obvious problem is many games have stats that may not be an equivalent of in the system you want to convert to or from.

I myself am currently working on converting D&D/AD&D monster stats to HeroQuest which is an extension of my converting HeroQuest Monsters to DragonStrike work (Read it Here) these conversions prove relativity easy as both DragonStrike and HeroQuest are directly derived from Basic D&D (wait until I've got my workings written up and you'll see!) and thus have easily equivalent stats

Macro has done quite a bit of work in the more difficult area of converting Warhammer to HeroQuest and you can read both our thoughts on the subject Here

I will write more on this at a later date - especially once I've got my D&D to HeroQuest work done. My main tip for you at this stage is; when working out a conversion system pick a few creatures that the games in question have in common and start working with only the profiles of those 2 or 3 creatures  

PS I'm going to post PDFs in the Fighting Fantasy section about converting monsters that you might find intresting