Okay, so I'm revising an old Apocalyptic/journey through the Infernus campaign I wrote some time back and converting it over to Swords & Wizardry from AD&D. It's a huge project; the original took around 15 years to write. But over the past 12 years or so since I finished the original, I've picked up lots of new supplements, monster books, etc and I finally decided to expand my campaign to add all this cool new stuff. In particular, I love the fact that S&W doesn't really distinguish between the various fiend races as I like the idea of just a cosmic battle between law and chaos, rather than that lame Blood War concept for AD&D 2e. So now I have materials spanning several newer game systems to convert over to S&W. Most notably, I snagged all the digest-sized Pathfinder bestiaries for a good price and they've got tons of Infernal foes I haven't seen in various OSR games.
I can do this, of course, but given the huge number of Pathfinder 1e creatures in particular and how long that stuff has been around, I was curious if anyone in the community had already converted some or all of the various new fiends to OSR stats? I posted this on the S&W forum, but that doesn't get much traffic so I thought I'd try here as well. I already have all the S&W monster books, AD&D 1e & 2e stuff so I'm really just looking for conversions of the newer ones that haven't already popped up in some OSR source.
Thanks!
Yes and no. Aquilae Bestiary of the Realm basically converts all Pathfinder monsters to OSR
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/335294/Aquilae-Bestiary-of-the-Realm-Volume-1-OSR
Has Demons, Devils, and Daemons
However, they seem to have done a very poor job and it's possibly automated. Many of the more powerful creatures have really low hit dice
Quote from: JeremyR on May 30, 2023, 07:50:23 PM
Yes and no. Aquilae Bestiary of the Realm basically converts all Pathfinder monsters to OSR
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/335294/Aquilae-Bestiary-of-the-Realm-Volume-1-OSR
Has Demons, Devils, and Daemons
However, they seem to have done a very poor job and it's possibly automated. Many of the more powerful creatures have really low hit dice
Thanks for the tip. I'm definitely pondering this, though even a glance at the preview suggests some of the issues you mention. And it's not exactly cheap if you want the hardcovers. I just got all 6 of the PF bestiaries brand new in digest-size for the price of 1 volume of this set.