Question for those who have the Midgard Campaign Setting and Southlands Campaign Setting books from Kobold Press and use them with D&D5E. What issues have you found with the conversions? I'm not looking at races - they have the 5E race guides available already. They are also currently kickstarting and update for Midgard, which I am backing. But when I asked about Southlands, they said they wouldn't be redoing that book for 5E at this time. So I'm mainly looking at doing translation work from Southlands Pathfinder to 5E. I do not have any Midgard/Southlands stuff yet except for the 5E Tome of Beasts.
I'm asking Midgard or Southlands since I figure the experience would be similar. I'm expecting the main issue to be anything class or magic spell related, since Pathfinder != D&D. Anybody here dealt with this?
I have the 5e Southlands Heroes book. Dont be fooled. It may say "5e D&D" on the cover. But its really built on 3e SRD and as such is at times a little overpowered for 5e. The Tosculi Swarm Druid is the best example. Picking up things like a bullette, umber hulk, and phase spider form for example. Though at a cost. The Lycanthrope Sorcerer path though was interesting. Some interesting new backgrounds though. Very YMMV. I think with a little, or alot, of tweaking it is viable and not much really seems to need toning down. Its just annoying as hell to get suckered by a bait-and-switch ploy.
Thanks for the input. Any chance you have the Pathfinder Southlands Campaign Setting? What kind of crunch is in there, that I'd have to convert to 5E?
Believe I heard in a podcast with Baur that he is working on a 5e Midgard release.
Yes, they currently have a kickstarter running for Midgard. 5E is an option with it. I asked on the KS if they were going to redo Southlands for the KS, and they are not. It will have a chapter like other areas, but they didn't see redoing the Southland book for 5E. That is why I'm asking about this.
If I buy the Southlands book, how much will be usable and how much will take some conversion? How much crunch is there?
Ok. Lets see. A friend has the setting book and had a brief glance through it.
If all you want is the setting material then nothing really to tinker with. Theres alot of background info on the land.
BUT.
Theres alot of items, monsters, spells, races, feats feats and more feats that are incompatible. All the feats are incompatible. You'll have to use equivalents or just eyeball it in some cases. But yeah theres alot to convert if you plan to use some of the creatures or items. Less if you dont plan to use the NPCs. Races and monsters will have to be worked over. None of this is usable straight out of the box.
To me its useless as converting all that would be a nuisance for little payoff as the setting, while interesting, isnt interesting enough to grind through converting. As usual. Very YMMV sort of thing.
Thanks Omega. That was more what I was looking for.