Re: [HOE] HOE NEWBIE d20

[Kevin L Stoner <stone1kl@cmich.edu>]

Hi Kerry,

First I want to say that you made a pretty good buy with HOE 
d20. As for conversions your best bet is to take some time 
and sit down to do it yourself. There are a few factors that 
I always take into account. First you should use the posse's 
level to determine the hit dice of the creatures you want to 
use. Sometimes the creatures are not much of a challenge so 
you should raise the level of the critter to meet the posse's 
level. Most of the D20 critters have a hit dice advancement 
at the very bottom of there stats. For books you should buy I 
know that City O' Sin and Denver are good source books to 
buy, but the class books are going to be pretty useless to 
you for game mechanics. One thing positive about the 
classbooks is the background material. Basically only buy the 
classbooks to learn the history of the class or information 
surrounding it, other than that you wont be able to translate 
most of it to D20. Lastly whatever setting you choose to use 
is fine, but most people still shudder when they think of the 
beggining of every dark sun campaign "Okay now that you have 
spent all of your measly pennies on equipment to barely keep 
you alive... you lose it all MWAHAHAHAHAHA." SO that is not a 
real popular route to go. Maybe start them in a town about to 
be overrun by blackhats and see if they form a cohesive unit 
then if you want to do the slave thing you can, but they will 
know there equipment can be found if they could just get out 
of the hole they are in. Hope I helped a bit.

Marshal Kevin Stoner