

Then I remembered one of the best adventures we'd played was "Hellpits of Nighfang" by Jennell Jaquays. It's a neat Runequest dungeon crawl like some of the older D&D adventures. I'm a big fan of the S-Series adventures from TSR. I thought, what if I converted White Plume Mountain to Runequest and run it as a one off dungeon crawl? Stats for Runequest versions of the iconic weapons were already forming in my brain! I did some searching around and found there are a wealth of resources for converting AD&D to Runequest.
First I found this article that someone had written on the web a while back - Converting AD&D to Runequest.
Next I went over to the BRP site and found Classic Fantasy, which is a full conversion of D&D to BRP. This book translates most of the AD&D spells over to Runequest, which makes it a great resource. (BRP or Basic Roleplaying is Chaosium's generic roleplaying system based on Runequest and Call of Cthulhu.)
Digging a little deeper on BRP site I found a conversions of the Monster Manual and Monster Manual 2 to BRP stats! Now we're cooking!
Finally, going back to the original source material itself, All the Worlds Monsters Vol 3 has a section on converting AD&D to original Runequest.
These are all for converting D&D to original Runequest and the BRP Runequest clones, which is slightly different from Mongoose RQ/Legend/Runequest 6. (There are almost as many RQ clones as their are D&D clones.) It's not hard to covert between versions of Runequest though. Somewhere I've got my notes from converting Hellpits of Nightfang from original Runequest to Mongoose Runequest. I'll post my conversion notes as soon as I find them.
So now I'm excited to start converting White Plume Mountain over to Runequest! I'll post the conversion here once I run it. There must be some kind of Rune Spirit going around right now. Over at Dispatches from Kickassistan, +Adam Muszkiewicz just started a Runequest 6 game as well.
(BTW you can get all the old Mongoose RQ sourcebooks for $1 each from Drive-Thru RPG. It's a bargain!)
Hey Ryan,
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to pop on and say hi. I wrote BRP Classic Fantasy for Chaosium and I'm currently writing a huge all encompassing version for the RQ6 system. It is coming out the latter part of next year if all goes well and will be a self-contained set of rules covering everything from classes and spells, to monsters and treasure and everything in between.
Rodney Leary
Rodney,
DeleteI saw that you were converting BRP Classic Fantasy to Runequest 6. I didn't see an estimate on when it would be released. I will definitely pick it up when it comes out. It fits exactly what I want to do in runequest. I'm a huge old school D&D fan but m,y players like the runequest system.
Thanks for all the resource links.
ReplyDeleteBryan Maloney wrote the AD&D to RQ conversion. Incidentally, he converts AD&D 2E to RQ 3.
Thanks Matt! I update this entry with Bryan's name. I never did get around to converting WPM to RQ. I still want to though, If I do I'll be sure and post it for everyone.
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