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The aim of conversion is to arrive at something that feels like the older-edition version, rather than at an exact replication. The guidelines in this document are intended to help you create what you want, not to force your choices along particular lines.  \nConverting Your Player Character  \nWork with your DM to determine the best fit for your conversion. Your DM is the final arbiter of any conversion.  \nLevel  \nYour DM sets the starting level of a converted character. For fourth edition characters, fifth edition level is two-thirds of fourth edition level, rounded normally instead of always down. For example, 25th level in fourth edition becomes 17th level in fifth edition. Level in other editions converts directly into fifth edition, but only up to 20th level.  \nRace  \nChoose the race that most closely matches your character’s race. For instance, a wild elf in Faerûn is closest to the wood elf in the Player’s Handbook. Replace all racial traits with those from the fifth edition Player’s Handbook. Ignore traits that have no bearing on fifth edition characters, such as third edition’s favored class trait or other editions’ class limitations.  \nRacial proficiencies of like kind—skill, tool, or weapon—can be swapped for their equivalents in fifth edition. You might swap skill proficiency for tool proficiency when the tool is a better representation of a skill from a previous edition.  \nAs an example, a wild elf character should have proficiency with spears, according to the third edition book Races ofFaerûn. Your character could give up longsword and shortsword proficiency from the Elf Weapon Training trait to have spear and javelin proficiency instead. Similarly, if your elf character from third edition relied on rapier proficiency garnered from race, you might swap longsword proficiency from Elf Weapon Training for rapier proficiency.  \nFor the DM: Race Conversions  \nFor races not represented in the Player’s Handbook, see the“Creating a Race” section in chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Start with the racial traits from one or more previous editions. From them, reconstruct the race in fifth edition terms, using existing races and their traits as models. The following general guidelines should help.  \nConsistency. Keep only those racial traits that are consistent from edition to edition. Especially ignore a trait that appears in only one previous edition.  \nAbility Scores. Bonuses to ability scores from race and subrace should add up to no more than +3, unless the race has few other beneficial traits. In most cases, no one score should receive a bonus higher than +2.  \nThree previous editions of the game included negative racial adjustments to ability scores, and two included racial ability score maximums and minimums. Fifth edition avoids such parameters, but in the case of monstrous races, such as kobolds, penalties can be appropriate.  \nDamage Resistances. In fifth edition, the damage resistance trait has no numeric value. A creature either has resistance to a damage type, or it does not.  \nInfravision. Racial infravision converts directly to fifth edition’s darkvision. Use the race’s infravision range for its darkvision, or a range chosen by your DM.  \nLow-Light Vision. Most races that have low-light vision in third or fourth edition should have darkvision. The range defaults to 60 feet.  \nPowers. Racial powers can be ignored or converted to the capability of casting a spell similar to the power. A character of the race should have to be of a level high enough to cast the spell as if the character were a spellcaster. For example, a spellcaster should be 5th level to cast a 3rd-level spell. A race that can cast innate spells must have a default spellcasting ability score chosen from among Int","cbCaisDYDeXnMvMY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisDYDeXnMvMY","pdf",491566,"English","# Conversions to 5th Edition D&D\n## Converting Your Player Character\n## Level\n## Race\n## For the DM: Race Conversions\n## Class","[{\"question\":\"How should conversion decisions be approached from older editions to D\\u0026D 5th Edition?\",\"answer\":\"Conversion is described as more art than science. 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