5.5E to Cyberpunk RED Species Part 2 - The Supplements to Date

 Very importantly here, I am only doing the 5.5E supplements and not including Lorwyn: First Light. As that as originally concieved for the Planeshift extra line for 5E and secondly because it's not very good. With non-functioning mechanics, obtuse wording and generally horribly sanded-down content from what was a very thematically strong and and dual-focused set.

In 5.5E, skill and tool proficiencies are a binary thing. You either have it or you don't while RED is more about the skill point totals. So whenever a species description said to add proficiencies, I interpreted that as adding to a skill twhen in 5E it would be flipping a switch from equal to none.

Changeling

Creature Type: Fey

About 4-7 feet tall or about 2-4 feet tall

Change Changeling Instincts. Thanks to your connection to the fey realm, add extra skill points equal to half your LUCK stat to two of the following skills of your choice: Acting, Dance, Human Perception, Interrogation, Persuasion, Play Instrument or Singing.

Change Shape-Shifter. As an action, you can shape-shift to change your appearance and your voice. You determine the specifics of the changes, including your coloration, hair length, and sex. You can also adjust your height and weight and can change your size between Medium (4-7 feet tall) and Small (2-4 feet tall). You can make yourself appear as a member of another playable species, though none of your game statistics change. You can't duplicate the appearance of an individual you've never seen, and you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that you have. This trait doesn't change your clothing and equipment.

While shape-shifted with this trait, you have Advantage on EMP checks.

You stay in the new form until you take an action to revert to your true form.

Dhampir

About 4-7 feet tall or about 2-4 feet tall

Your MOVE increase by 1

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Spider Climb. You may climb equal to your MOVE. When you reach LUCK 6, you can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and along ceilings while leaving your hands free.

Trace of Undeath. You have Resistance to Necrotic damage.

Change Vampiric Bite. When you use Brawling or unarmed Martial Arts and deal damage, you can choose to bite with your fangs. You deal Piercing damage equal to 2 plus half your BODY stat.

In addition, when you deal this damage to a creature that isn't a Construct or an Undead, you can empower yourself in one of the following ways:

Drain. You regain Hit Points equal to the Piercing damage dealt.

Strengthen. You gain a bonus to the next stat check or attack roll you make within the next minute/20 turns; the bonus is equal to the Piercing damage dealt.

You can empower yourself with this trait a number of times equal to half your LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Hexblood

Creature Type: Fey

About 4-7 feet tall) or about 2-4 feet tall

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Eerie Token. Once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn, you can create a magical token by harmlessly removing a lock of hair, detaching a nail, or using some other method. While the token exists, you gain the following benefits:

Distant Message. As an action, you can send a telepathic message of 25 words or fewer to a creature holding or carrying the token, as long as you are within 10 miles/16 kilometres of it.

Remote Viewing. If you are within 10 miles/16 kilometres of the token, you can take an action to extend your senses through the token for 1 minute/20 turns, until you have the Incapacitated condition, or until you end this state (no action required). During this state, you can see and hear from the token as if you were located where it is. When this state ends, the token is harmlessly destroyed. Unless the token is destroyed early, it lasts until you finish a Long Rest. Once you create a token using this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Hex Magic. You always have the Disguise Self and Hex spells prepared. You can cast each spell once and you regain the ability to cast it in that way when you finish a Long Rest. INT, WILL, or EMP is your spellcasting ability for the spells you cast with this trait (choose the ability when you select this species).

Kalashtar

Creature Type: Aberration

About 6–7 feet tall

Dual Mind. You have Advantage on WILL + Concentration and EMP + Concentration rolls.

Mental Discipline. You have Resistance to Psychic damage.

Mind Link. You have telepathy with a range in feet equal to 5 times your LUCK stat. When you're using this trait to speak telepathically to a creature, you can take an action to give that creature the ability to speak telepathically with you for 1 hour or until you take another action to end this effect.

Severed from Dreams. You can't be the target of the Dream spell. In addition, when you finish a Long Rest, you add half your LUCK stat to a non-weapon skill. This proficiency lasts until you finish another Long Rest.

Khoravar

About 4-6 feet tall or about 2-4 feet tall

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Fey Ancestry. You have Advantage on rolls you make to avoid or end the Charmed condition.

Change Fey Gift. You know the Friends cantrip. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace that cantrip with a different cantrip from the Cleric, Druid, or Wizard spell list. INT, WILL, or EMP is your spellcasting ability for it (choose the ability when you select this species).

Change Lethargy Resilience. When you fail a roll to avoid or end the Unconscious condition, you can succeed instead. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish 1d6-2 (minimum 1) Long Rests.

Skill Versatility. You can add half your LUCK stat to one non-weapon skill. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace it with another skill.

Lupin

About 4-7 feet tall or about 2-4 feet tall

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Feral Pounce. Damage from your Brawling attacks halves armour SP. In addition, once per turn, when you hit a creature with an Unarmed Strike as part of the Attack action on your turn, the creature must make a DEX + Athletics or DEX + Dodge/Evasion roll (their choice) to avoid being pushed 1.5 yards/metres.

Change Howl. Once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn, you let out an unearthly howl. Each creature of your choice within 5 yards/metres of you must succeed on a WILL + Concentration against a DV of 11 + BODY or have Disadvantage on rolls until the start of your next turn.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to half your LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Werewolf Instincts. You add half your LUCK stat to the Perception, Stealth, or Wilderness Survival skill.

Reborn

About 4-7 feet tall or about 2-4 feet tall

Change Escaped Death. You have Advantage on Death Saves.

Change Everlasting. You are immune to the effects of Fatigue, Drowning and Asphyxiation, dehydration or malnutrition. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can finish a Long Rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in an inactive, motionless state, during which you retain consciousness.

Change Knowledge from a Past Life. You add half your LUCK stat to one non-weapon skill of your choice.

In addition, you can temporarily peer into the past to aid you in the present. When you fail an ability check, you can roll 1d6 and add the number rolled to the result, potentially turning the failure into a success. You can do this a number of times equal to half your LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Strange Endurance. You have Resistance to one of the following damage types of your choice: Cold, Necrotic, or Poison and toxins.

Shifter

About 4-7 feet tall or about 2-4 feet tall

Change Bestial Instincts. Channeling the beast within, you add half your LUCK stat to one of the following skills of your choice: Athletics, Contortionist, Interrogation, or Wilderness Survival.

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Shifting. Once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn, you can shape-shift to assume a more bestial appearance. This transformation lasts for 1 minute/20 turns or until you revert to your normal appearance, in addition to any actions taken that turn. When you shift, you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your LUCK stat. You can shift a number of times equal to half your LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Whenever you shift, you gain the benefit of one of the following options (choose when you select this species)

Beasthide. You gain 1d6 additional Temporary Hit Points. While shifted, you have a natural 5 SP to all locations.

Longtooth. When you shift and on your other turns while shifted, once per turn, in addition to any actions taken that turn. You can use your elongated fangs as part of a Brawling or Martial Arts attack. If you hit with this attack and deal damage, you halve the SP and do 1d6 plus half your BODY stat, instead of the normal damage.

Swiftstride. While you are shifted, your MOVE increases by 2. Additionally, once per turn, you can immediately move up to 1.5 yards/metres when a creature ends its turn within 1 yards/metres of you.

Wildhunt. While shifted, you have Advantage on WILL + Concentration rolls. Additionally, no creature within 10 yards/metres of you can have Advantage on an attack roll against you unless you have the Incapacitated condition.

 

Warforged

Creature Type: Construct

About 6-8 feet tall or about 3-4 feet tall

Change Construct Resilience. You have Resistance to Poison and toxin damage. You also have Advantage on rolls to avoid or end the Poisoned condition.

Change Integrated Protection. You have a natural 5 SP on all locations. In addition, armor you have donned can't be removed against your will while you're alive.

Sentry's Rest. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can finish a Long Rest in 6 hours if you spend those hours in an inactive, motionless state. During this time, you appear inert but remain conscious.

Change Specialized Design. You add half your LUCK stat to two non-weapon skills, one of which must be a TECH skill.

Change Tireless. You are immune to the effects of Fatigue, Drowning and Asphyxiation, dehydration or malnutrition.

And as an extra because someone asked to play one in the game:

Eladrin

(Interesting to see if this ever gets readapted between 5E and 5.5E).

Choose your eladrin's season: autumn, winter, spring, or summer. When finishing a long rest, you can change your season.

You are also considered an elf for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be an elf.

Change Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 20 yards/metres of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colours in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Change Fey Ancestry. You have Advantage on rolls you make to avoid or end the Charmed condition.

Change Fey Step. Once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn, you can magically teleport up to 10 yards/metres to an unoccupied space you can see. You can use this trait a number of times equal to half your LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

When you reach LUCK 6, your Fey Step gain an additional effect based on your season; if the effect imposes a roll, the DV is 11 + your INT, WILL, or EMP modifier (choose when you select this race):

Autumn. Immediately after you use your Fey Step, up to two creatures of your choice that you can see within 3 yards/metres feet of you must succeed on a WILL + Concentration roll or be charmed by you for 1 minute/20 turns, or until you or your companions deal any damage to the creatures.

Winter. When you use your Fey Step, one creature of your choice that you can see within 2 yards/metres of you before you teleport must succeed on a WILL + Concentration roll saving throw or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Spring. When you use your Fey Step, you can touch one willing creature within 1.5 yards/metres of you. That creature then teleports instead of you, appearing in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 10 yards/metres of you.

Summer. Immediately after you use your Fey Step, each creature of your choice that you can see within 1.5 yards/metres of you takes fire damage equal to half your LUCK stat.

Change Keen Senses. Add half your LUCK stat to your Perception skill.

Change Trance. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness.

Whenever you finish this trance, you can change your season, and you can add half your LUCK stat to two TECH, REF or DEX skills, so long as the skill involves using a hand tool. You mystically acquire these proficiencies by drawing them from shared elven memory, and you retain them until you finish your next long rest.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for your character.

5.5E to Cyberpunk RED Species Part 1 - The Players Handbook

 My holiday interrupt the tedious process of preparing for my next camapign, so I own everyone two weeks of Cyberpunk RED meets 5.5E D&D crossover fun.

Species is a stupid thing to call what was previously races, kin and ancestry would be better. Not to mention getting rid of half-Elves and half-orcs only to start trickling them back in via setting-specific supplments. It's just the equivalent of weasel words in that case. Especially as it cuts all of Greenwood and other FR author's specific Half-Elf and Half-Orc cultures out because of course FR has to be bog standard, depsite getting Greyhawk back for 5.5E, this is how they got in this mess to begin with.

5.5E really front loads the species.

For people who use metric, assume the small categories are 0.61-1.22 metres and Medium ranges up to 2.44 metres.

Aaismar

About 4-7 feet tall or 2-4 feet tall

Change Celestial Resistance. You take half damage from Necrotic damage and Radiant damage.

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Healing Hands. Healing is a number of d6 equal to Half your LUCK score.

Change Light Bearer. Casting this cantrip requires a EMP + Magic roll.

Change Celestial Revelation. If your LUCK is 6 or higher you can transform once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn using one of the options below (choose the option each time you transform). The transformation lasts for 1 minute (20 turns) or until you end it (no action required). Once you transform, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Once on each of your turns before the transformation ends, you can deal extra damage to one target when you deal damage to it with an attack or a spell. The extra damage equals your half your LUCK stat, and the extra damage's type is either Necrotic for Necrotic Shroud or Radiant for Heavenly Wings and Inner Radiance.

Here are the transformation options:

Change Inner Radiance. Searing light temporarily radiates from your eyes and mouth. For the duration, you shed Bright Light in a 3 yards/metres radius and Dim Light for an additional 3 yards/metres, and at the end of each of your turns, each creature within 3 yards/metres of you takes Radiant damage equal to half your LUCK.

Change Necrotic Shroud. Your eyes briefly become pools of darkness, and flightless wings sprout from your back temporarily. Creatures other than your allies within 3 yards/metres of you must succeed on a D10 + EMP + Concentration roll vs a DV of 11+ EMP or have the Frightened condition until the end of your next turn.

Dragonborn

About 5-7 feet tall

Change Breath Weapon. When you take an Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with an exhalation of magical energy in either a 5 yards/metres Cone or a 10 yards/metres Line that is 1.5 yards/metres or 1 Square wide (choose the shape each time). Each creature in that area must make a D10 + DEX + Dodge/Evasion roll vs a DV of 11 + BODY. On a failed save, a creature takes 3d6 damage of the type determined by your Draconic Ancestry trait. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage. If your LUCK is 8, the damage is increased to 6d6. You can use this Breath Weapon a number of times equal to half your LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Change Damage Resistance. You take half damage to the damage type determined by your Draconic Ancestry trait.

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Draconic Flight. If your LUCK is 8, you can channel draconic magic to give yourself temporary flight. Once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn, you sprout spectral wings on your back that last for 10 minutes or until you retract the wings (no action required) or have the Incapacitated condition. During that time, you have Flight equal to your MOVE. Your wings appear to be made of the same energy as your Breath Weapon. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Dwarf

About 4-5 feet tall

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 40 yards/metres.

Change Dwarven Resilience. You take half damage to Poison and toxin damage. You also have Advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the Poisoned condition.

Change Dwarven Toughness. Your Hit Point increases by 5.

Change Stonecunning. Once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn, you gain Tremorsense with a range of 20 yards/metres for 10 minutes. You must be on a stone surface or touching a stone surface to use this Tremorsense. The stone can be natural or worked. You can use this a number of times equal to half your LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Elf

About 5-6 feet tall

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Elven Lineage. You are part of a lineage that grants you supernatural abilities. Choose a lineage from the Elven Lineages table. You gain the Luck 2 benefit of that lineage.

When you reach LUCK 6 and LUCK 8, you learn a higher-level spell, as shown on the table. You always have that spell prepared. You regain the ability to cast it in that way when you finish a Long Rest.

INT, WILL, or EMP is your spellcasting ability for the spells you cast with this trait (choose the ability when you select the lineage).

Elven Lineages

Drow

LUCK 2 - The range of your Darkvision increases to 40 yards/metres. You also know the Dancing Lights cantrip.

LUCK 6 - You also know the Faerie Fire cantrip.

LUCK 8 - You also know the Darkness cantrip.

High Elf

LUCK 2 - You know the Prestidigitation cantrip. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace that cantrip with a different cantrip from the Wizard spell list.

LUCK 6 - You also know the Detect Magic cantrip.

LUCK 8 - You also know the Misty Step cantrip.

Wood Elf

LUCK 2 - Your MOVE increase by 1. You also know the Druidcraft cantrip.

LUCK 6 – You also know the Longstrider cantrip.

LUCK 8 - You also know the Pass without Trace cantrip.

Change Fey Ancestry. You have Advantage on rolls you make to avoid or end the Charmed condition.

Change Keen Senses. You add half your LUCK stat to one of the following skills : Human Perception, Perception, or Wilderness Survival skill

Trance. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can finish a Long Rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness.

Gnome

About 3-4 feet tall

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Gnomish Cunning. You have Advantage on WILL + Concentration and EMP + Concentration rolls.

Change Gnomish Lineage. You are part of a lineage that grants you supernatural abilities. Choose one of the following options; whichever one you choose, INT, WILL, or EMP is your spellcasting ability for the spells you cast with this trait (choose the ability when you select the lineage):

Forest Gnome. You know the Minor Illusion cantrip. You also always have the Speak with Animals spell prepared. You can cast a number of times equal to half you LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Rock Gnome. You know the Mending and Prestidigitation cantrips. In addition, you can spend 10 minutes casting Prestidigitation to create a Tiny clockwork device (1 HP), such as a toy, fire starter, or music box. When you create the device, you determine its function by choosing one effect from Prestidigitation; the device produces that effect whenever you or another creature activate it with a touch once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn. If the chosen effect has options within it, you choose one of those options for the device when you create it. For example, if you choose the spell's ignite-extinguish effect, you determine whether the device ignites or extinguishes fire; the device doesn't do both. You can have three such devices in existence at a time, and each falls apart 8 hours after its creation or when you dismantle it with a touch as an action.

Goliath

About 7-8 feet tall

Your MOVE increase by 1

Change Giant Ancestry. You can use the chosen benefit a number of times equal to half your LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest:

Cloud's Jaunt (Cloud Giant). Once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn, you magically teleport up to 10 yards/metres to an unoccupied space you can see.

Fire's Burn (Fire Giant). When you hit a target with an attack roll and deal damage to it, you can also deal 3d6 Fire damage to that target.

Frost's Chill (Frost Giant). When you hit a target with an attack roll and deal damage to it, you can also deal 1d6 Cold damage to that target and reduce its MOVE by 2 until the start of your next turn.

Hill's Tumble (Hill Giant). When you hit a Large or smaller creature with an attack roll and deal damage to it, you can give that target the Prone condition.

Stone's Endurance (Stone Giant). When you take damage, you can roll once per turn to immediately to roll 1d10+BODY. Reduce the damage by that total.

Storm's Thunder (Storm Giant). When you take damage from a creature within 20 yards/metres of you, you can once per turn, immediately deal 2d6 Thunder/Sonic damage to that creature.

Change Large Form. Starting at LUCK 8, you can change your size to Large Once per turn, in addition to any actions taken this turn, if you're in a big enough space. This transformation lasts for 10 minutes or until you end it (no action required). For that duration, you have Advantage on DEX + Athletics checks, and your MOVE increased by 2. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Powerful Build. You have Advantage on any ability check you make to end the Grappled condition. You also count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity.

Halfling

About 2-3 feet tall

Brave. You have Advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the Frightened condition.

Halfling Nimbleness. You can move through the space of any creature that is a size larger than you, but you can't stop in the same space.

Change Luck. When you roll a 1 on the d10 of a Skill Check Resolution (Critical Failure), you can reroll the die, and you must use the new roll.

Change Naturally Stealthy. You can take an action to hide with a Stealth roll even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Human

About 4-7 feet tall or about 2-4 feet tall

Change Resourceful. You may reroll one dice result per 24 hours, whenever you finish a Long Rest.

Change Skillful. You add half your LUCK score to your starting Skill Points.

Change Versatile. You start with 1 extra Role Rank of your choice.

Orc

About 6-7 feet tall

Change Adrenaline Rush. You may choose to double MOVE stat when moving. When you do so, you gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to half LUCK stat. These do not stack with other subsequent Temporary Hit Points and disappear after being depleted or a Long Rest.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to half LUCK stat, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 40 yards/metres.

Relentless Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 Hit Points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 Hit Point instead. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Tiefling

About 4-7 feet tall or about 3-4 feet tall

Change Darkvision. You have Darkvision with a range of 20 yards/metres.

Change Fiendish Legacy. You are the recipient of a legacy that grants you supernatural abilities. Choose a legacy from the Fiendish Legacies table.

When you reach character LUCK 6 and LUCK 8, you learn a higher-level spell, as shown on the table. You always have that spell prepared. You regain the ability to cast it when you finish a Long Rest.

INT, WILL, or EMP is your spellcasting ability for the spells you cast with this trait (choose the ability when you select the lineage).

Fiendish Legacies

Abyssal

LUCK 2 - You have Resistance to Poison or toxin damage. You also know the Poison Spray cantrip.

LUCK 6 - Ray of Sickness

LUCK 8 - Hold Person

Chthonic

LUCK 2 - You have Resistance to Necrotic damage. You also know the Chill Touch cantrip.

LUCK 6 - False Life

LUCK 8 - Ray of Enfeeblement

Infernal

LUCK 2 - You have Resistance to Fire damage. You also know the Fire Bolt cantrip.

LUCK 6 - Hellish Rebuke

LUCK 8 - Darkness

Otherworldly Presence. You know the Thaumaturgy cantrip. When you cast it with this trait, the spell uses the same spellcasting ability you use for your Fiendish Legacy Trait.

AD&D Solo Adventures - The Village of Hommlet Part 12

Still Day 161

Riding horses go at 45 miles a day I decided. So, they cross one and a half flat 30-mile hexes per day. On the Darlene map I would have them ride for Narwell then across the lower part of the Gnarley Forest, then turn north from Hommlet. But Anna Meyer’s more detailed map shows they should turn off prior to Narwell or make a big detour from arriving in Narwell then pass through some small woodland settlements on the High Road. To be consistent with both, they will make time across the flatlands of the Wild Coast and go north to the High Road from Narwell. They reach the bend in the Selintan where One Ford and Crossford are. But as they are not on the map, nor is there a mention of a bridge, they ford it the next morning. No random encounters, not lost on signposted roads.

Day 162

Rations 12/14, they ford the Selintan, which takes them half a day and so they can only move to the edge of the hex. As they are camping now, there is a night encounter roll as well, but neither have an encounter. Not lost now they are beyond civilisation.

Day 163

Rations 10/14, no encounters in the day or night and not lost.

Day 164

Rations 8/14, only 15 miles to Narwell now. They will stop there for the night. However, that day they unfortunately come across one of the many hazards of the Wild Coast, a lair of four trolls. But they are not lost.

Neither are surprised so the encounter starts 160 yards away.

Round 1, the trolls win initiative and charge from their ill-concealed stinking hollow, moving 120 yards forward. The pair decide to trust fate and steel and swing down from the panicking horses, drawing swords and firing spell bolts into the front. First troll HD 6->4.

Round 2, equal initiative and a meeting in the middle of claws, teeth and swords. 9 HD of damage dealt to the trolls, they deal 2 HP damage to Dounil and 5 HP to Celest. First troll HD 4->0 (for now), 2^nd troll HD 6->4, Dounil HP 18->16 and Celest HP 7->2.

Round 3, The heroes win initiative by 1, Dounil tells Celest to get back after her attack. Fray defeats the wounded troll, no swords hit. Troll 1 - 1/3 till it starts healing, troll 2 – 0/3. Trolls bite once and claw for 5 HP damage to Dounil, HP 16->11.

Round 4, heroes win initiative, both swords land and do 6 HD, disabling another troll but remaining one does 3 damage to Dounil, HP 11->8. Troll 1 - 2/3 till it starts healing, troll 2 – 1/3 and troll 3 – 0/3.

Round 5, troll wins initiative, does 2 damage to Dounil HP 8-> 6. 6 HD in return disables the last one. Now they lack oil to burn the bodies, so they are forced to grab their frightened horses and flee. Bandaging around the campfire, Dounil HP 6->8 and Celest HP 2-> 4. No XP can be awarded as the trolls were merely inconvenienced and no treasure could be taken from their lair.

It is further tragic they encounter something again at night. 12 Wolves who smell blood and are probably part dog considering how long civilisation has endured in Grayhawk. And so are unafraid of people. They surprise the party at 10 yards. There is one advantage, the reaction roll is 10 Indifferent, may negotiate. How to negotiate with a wolf?

Dump all the rations far away with a well-aimed throw and move the horses to the fire. Cast light on the fire so it glows like day. That’s enough to sacrifice to keep the wolves at bay for a sleepless and sore night.

Day 165

0/14 rations, not even iron rations. It’s a hungry and tired set of riders who stagger into Narwell. They pay 1sp to enter and another for the horses, they take a shared room with food and pay for 2gp a night another 4gp for the stabling. 62sp just to get somewhere safe, let alone recoup. Now they have 1402sp. To rest 10 days more will cost them 600sp, they won’t get another chance, but Celest is most unhappy.

Day 176

They set off again with 2 weeks of fresh rations 14/14, costing Celest another 100sp for 702sp remaining. The horse fodder has been eaten during stabling, but now they are fine to graze them. If not, they will just turn them loose. They only make it to the edge of the wooded hex with the forest slowing them. Luckily there are no encounters, nor are they lost.

Day 177

Rations 12/14, neither lost nor encounter anything in the day or night.

Day 178

They begin rising into the wood hills now, fortunately not imposing any additional penalties in OSE. Rations 10/14, neither lost nor encounter anything in the day or night.

Day 179

Rations 8/14. They are lost but fortunately are going where they thought they were going, that does means as the wander off the High Road, they encounter something during the day. 100 elves and their leaders, arrayed for patrol emerge from the woods where their clan hall lies. Dounil and Celest being half-elves, hail them in Elvish. That raises their reaction from 5 to 7, making them uncertain about wander strangers. Dounil and Celest quickly relate their tale. The elves do remember defeating the temple forces at the Battle of Emridy Meadows some 7 years ago. They redirect them back to the road.

Day 180

Rations 6/14. They repeat the same mistake and wander off the road but still in the right direction, leading to another day encounter. This time it’s a tribe of Woodmen in their long hall and palisade. While neutral in alignment and indifferent in rection once they hear the friendly Elvish greeting. They hold no love for the Temple and its humanoids, and once again direct the pair on the High Road.

Day 181

Rations 4/14. They are lost again and wander south. Dounil is sure they should be at the abandoned farmstead by now and they make camp, only to encounter something in the dark. It said to use the standard encounter table, so I will assume it being forest overrides the green hill icon. They are not surprised by the approach of 3 huge spiders at 120 yards through the undergrowth.

Round 1, the spiders move first, advancing 180 yards to attack, no hit. Dounil’s Fray kills one and his sword kills another. Celest is suffering from still being level 1. The spider just passes morale and keeps at it, not yet processing its companions’ deaths.

Round 2, The spider is hacked to bits by the pair with great vigour.

Day 182

Rations 2/14. They figure out their location and become unlost, they are still 1 hex away from their destination, so they can make it today. No encounter that day or in the night. They reach the abandoned farm and barn as night closes. They put the horses in the barn and settle down within some crumbling walls.

Day 183

Rations 0/14, Celest is told who to contact in Nulb to assure people they have returned and are going to tear into the temple. She also needs to buy another week of supplies. Dounil will scout the tunnel. It is [8:00].

Celest rides to Nulb and finds it as bad as described. She stables her horse with Otis and tells him she is friends with the blonde half-elf. Otis tells her it’s good, the temple is back up from whatever blow that was dealt, and not to breathe who her friend is here. Mother Scragg is please and let’s her know she can get healing if she does well. Celest buys 1 week of rations for 7 days, trying to keep that fact she has 50sp on her to a minimum. She says she is a woodsman looking for a lost family member who joined a bandit group a year ago.

Dounil searches out the tunnel. He cannot find the bandit leader’s body, which would be normal in an active woodland after 121 days. But not even gear. Entering the tunnel, he does not spend 20 turns moving and resting but 5 turns of movement, 1 turns of rest and 1 more turn to reach the trapdoor at [9:10], which is shut. Activating the mechanism, he finds the formerly rich bedroom in the tower stripped bare.

Here I must digress a bit from the narrative. The temple is an active site, and the rules are clear that no only are foes replenished if not killed fast enough and their leader still lives. But the numbers grow beyond the listed of appearing. But that is listed after the section where Dounil first entered the tower and left for his extended detour. And I am inclined for purposes of keeping the game manageable, that merely all encounters (bar the harpies/ghouls/ghasts) have replenished.

Dounil can hear with a heavy heart the sound of rancorous men below. The brigands have reoccupied the tower. He makes a strategic retreat, the tunnel is not safe, and neither is the cottage. At [10:30], ten minutes after returning, Celest appears and Dounil discusses the problem. Celest’s opinion: sharpen by delays, near-death and costs; is that if Dounil did them in last time, he can do them in again.

OK, follow behind and this time they’ll split the loot evenly. Accompanying Dounil, Celest makes good time, she questions why they don’t camp in this cave instead once, they clear the brigands and Dounil said he doesn’t know what lives there. Celest said they can double-check it later. At [11:40], they are peaking through the trapdoor and entering the old bedroom. Dounil will turn invisible and begin to kill, Celest will wear her Elven Cloak and shoot with the bow to take out any crossbowmen first. The door opens and another tower of slaughter begins.

The brigands fail to see through Celest and they really fail to see Dounil, who might not have surprise but cannot be seen. For convenience of the module increasing the danger of foes after the initial encounter, I will assume everyone is already armed and assembled in Room 1, the Main Room or their watchposts.

Surprise round, Dounil rolls a 1 on the attack, as his go wide charging down the stairs. He kills a guard though with his Fray. Celest’s arrow may have failed to penetrate, but these crossbowmen are level 0 and so her Fray chops down 2 of the 4.

Round 1, the brigands rally and attack, going first. A crossbowman firing point blank hits Celest without off her magic shield. Doing 2 damage, HP 7->5. No spears and bows down in the room, just maces and swords and they try to beat Dounil to death and stab what is left. 3 men on each side for 12 attacks against him, 8 footmen, 2 sergeants and 2 lieutenants.

They roll a 19 and three 18s, but it’s not enough to penetrate the magic armour and shield. The other 12 wait to see. Dounil slashes and Frays and 4 footmen die. Celest kills the remaining Crossbowmen and is ready to fire into the crowd below.

Round 2, equal initiative. Dounil will kill a lieutenant and another footman. The footmen, sergeants and lieutenants will be unable to penetrate. The four dead footmen will be filled with the 4 surviving guards, one who hits Dounil for 2 damage, HP 18->16. Celest will pick at the leader hanging back and fire Spell Fray at him too, doing 2 HD of damage, HD6->4. He directs the 4 archers to fire at Celest, who of course cannot have her +2 shield out, so she merely has an AC of 1. All miss.

Round 3, the heroes go first and Dounil kills the other lieutenant and a sergeant. Celest shoots at the archers, killing all 4. The remaining brigands pile into Dounil, the leader hoping his 6H means he can hit Dounil well, he can but he lacks the multiple attacks that make ghouls and trolls so frightful. No one hits Dounil.

Round 4, equal initiative, Dounil has a bad round, missing and rolling a 1 on his Fray, his aim is getting worse as the blood and tumult grows. A guard and footman do 1 damage apiece with short and longsword, HP 16->14. Celest misses the leader but her magical Fray does 1 HD damage, HD4->3.

Round 5, equal initiative again, Dounil kills the leader and the other sergeant. Celest kills 3 footmen.

Round 6, the brigands finally get a go, the 5 surviving brigands fail morale and move to open the door and escape into the courtyard. Dounil gives chase and kills 2, Celest fires from the arrow slits and kills 1 more.

Round 7, the brigands are faster, but Dounil and Celest can cast magic. Their Fray finish off the last 2. Not great though for the Giant Ravens know who their friends are and are coming to attack Dounil. He is not surprised for the roll means he remembered the ravens have an optical illusion.

Round 8, there are 16 giant ravens, each with 3 HD. Fortunately Celest is inside the tower, but random encounters for the daytime will be rolled as the fighting goes on. Luckily the heroes roll 1 more than the ravens for initiative. As the ravens come in to peck and claw, Dounil does 3 HD and kills one. Celest fires arrow and spell but is running out of arrows, she’ll need to take a round to scavenge some from downstairs and another to return up. She does 2 HD, Giant Raven 3->1.

A vertical square is still a square, so 3 raven attack, doing 1 damage, HP 16->15.

Round 9, Ravens go first and none hit, Dounil kills 1 and the wounded one. Celest scavenges.

Round 10, Dounil kills 2 more Ravens. Celest returns to the firing position, a whole turn has passed so I roll for a random encounter. Nothing. No ravens hit. Dounil cannot take much more, he will retreat next turn.

Round 11, Raven goes first and do 2 damage to Dounil, HP 15->13. Dounil makes a fighting retreat to the doorway, killing 1 and wounding another HD 3->2. Celest only hits it with magic, HD 2->1.

Inside, things are grim. Everyone will know they are here, they can’t assault the temple now and the brigands will easily be able to put together how they got in. They bandage, HP 13->15 and HP 5->7.

Celest says they have one option, kill the ravens and stop the noise, then ambush whoever comes out of the tunnel when they go looking for them. It’s a plan but Dounil is incredibly tired. But this is D&D not GURPS, so he’ll just have to bear the fatigue.

He opens the door again and faces the ravens cawing on the ground for their dead kin.

Round 1, Dounil charges forth and does 5 HD of damage, killing one, killing the wounded one and doing 1 HD damage to one more, HD 3->2. Celest fires from the doorway, killing the newly wounded one. Also 60 giant rats are approaching across the ground from 130 yards away.

But now 3 ravens can attack on the ground, 3 in the air and the rest from the sides. Dounil takes 1 HP damage, HP 15->14.

I then realise Celest has a maximum HP of 8 and so she should have had 1 more from Darkshelf onwards, this is corrected, she has 8 HP now.

Round 2, The giant ravens attack and do 3 HP damage, HP 14->11. The rats are almost to the carcasses. Only Celest manages to hit anything with her magical Fray, doing 1 HD to a raven, HD 3->2.

Round 3, Dounil and Celest go first, the sword killing 2 raven and the range killing another. Rats begin to swarm the carcasses for a round, forcing the 3 ravens on the ground to lift off. Dounil backs towards the door. The ravens dive bomb doing 3 damage to Dounil, HP 11->8

Round 4, The heroes kill another and wound 1, HD 3->2. Dounil shuts the door. Preventing the rats from entering.

As they bandage, they take stock. HP 8->10 and remains at 8. They need to kill the giant ravens but are prevented by the rats. The decide to go and search the brigand’s materials. Looking at the torches, Dounil thinks he can levitate up there and ignite the nests. But how would he get down?
Celest would provide covering fire for him. It’s crazy but it might work as it will last 90 minutes for him.

After an hour [12:00], the rats look like they have subsided.

Round 1, Opening the door, Dounil rises at a rate of 20 feet per round, he seems to shrink though he is nearly at the top of a 25 foot tower.

Round 2, Dounil is now level with the top and he sees the giant ravens nest in the timbers caused by the collapse of the thid story into the second. He throws the torch and the 3 remaining ravens take off the strike him out of the air. They do no damage.

Round 3, Dounil descends to 5 feet above the ground, he cannot hit nor does his Fray have any effect, Celest misses too but her spell hurts the injured one, HD 2->1.

Round 4, Celest kills the wounded one and wounds another, HD 3->1, it is finished off by Dounil’s Fray as he touches down. The remaining giant raven divebombs Celest but misses.

Round 5, Celest’s arrow and Dounil’s Fray kill the last. That took way too long for everyone.

There is a deeper problem, if the tower was reinforced, then they knew about the tunnel and the old farmhouse. It was probably only logistics that prevented brigand horses being present when the pair arrived. That means their sleeping area isn’t safe and if there was an affray such as what has happened here, they would check there and Nulb. Which is what sending Celest only was supposed to prevent. They are stuck, unless they can ambush the person who checks the farm.

Scavenging the bodies gets them: 63cp, 96sp, 24ep, 35gp, 47pp and the XP is 92 FXP and 87 MUXP.

Celest rests in preparation for that night. Dounil takes the horses some several miles away and makes a cold camp while Celest hides in a tree with a view of the well with her cloak of Elvenkind.

She sees nothing all night.

Day 184

The next morning, Celest rolls her find secret doors roll and sees footprints around the well. Someone who they couldn’t see was here, but could that person see them while hidden?

5.5E to Cyberpunk RED

I went back and forth on this for an upcoming Cyberpunk RED meets Forgotten Realms game. Not the infamous meme about 5E players lacking the ability to play another game, but a game about being punks in a future version of the Forgotten Realms.

Art by Anselm Zielonka (Edited by Me)

Why?

As Shadowrun in concept is cool but I really don’t like any of its mechanics and find the lore to be cringe. Something that won’t get any better with the effort Cataclysm Game Labs puts into it.

I eventually went for something simple to convert the numbers over.

If the modifier is 0 or higher, add to 4, if it is -1 or lower, use a base number of 5. So, 4 +2 = 6, 5 -2 = 3.

Use all Attack bonuses as combat skills without conversion. Characteristics are converted accordingly

Dex = REF
Your Attack Modifier Characteristic (Str or Dex) = DEX
(Dex + Int)/2 = TECH, this was a recommendation, I previously had it just be derived from Int
Int = INT
Wis = COOL
Wis = WILL
(Str + Con)/2 = BODY
Cha = EMP
(Speed/5)-2 = MOVE
Proficiencies Bonus = LUCK, but no adding or subtracting here, +2 is 2 LUCK if required by an NPC/Monster.

Recalculate HP as normal, this does tend to put most monsters in the 40 HP range, which is not that strange for the idea a monster is tough but not invulnerable.

Use all skills values without conversion, Initiative becomes Combat Awareness. Use Proficiencies Bonus as an Other skill.

AC-10-Dex Mod	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Natural SP	5	7	10	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Worn SP	4	7	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Monsters do not take natural armour penalties
Damage Calculation, every dice size above or below d6 increases or decreases the total d6s rolled. Ignore modifiers. 1d4 becomes 2 and less than 1d4 damage becomes 1.

Ex. 2d6 = 2d6, 2d8 = 4d6, 2d10 = 6d6, 2d4 = 1d6.

Add an extra d6 for two handed weapons.

DV for skills, saving throws and spells follow a formula, with rounding down if a DC value cannot reach the next tier.

DC	5	8	10	12	15	20	25	30	35
DV	9	11	13	14	15	17	21	24	29

Saving Throws are a little tricky. As Cyberpunk RED tends to assign them all to wither DEX or WILL. And While I was fine to split them up between DEX and WILL skills, there wasn’t enough DEX skills to assign them properly, with a missing DEX skill to replace Cha saving throws.

So, if a 5E saving throw is required follow this chart

Dex	DEX + Dodge/Evasion
Str	DEX + Athletics
Con Environmental	WILL + Endurance
Con Internal	WILL + Resist Torture/Drugs
Int and WIS	WILL + Concentration
Cha	EMP + Concentration

This does create a particular RED issue though. Concentration the skill naturally covers what should be a Constitution saving throw for a D&D 5E Concentration check. But the core them of a Constitution is withstanding the distraction/pain, which Resist Torture/Drugs would be better.

They all use WILL anyway, so feel free to change things.

Magic

Magic is tricky as RED treats magic like a weapon. Rolling to hit a target with range drop-off while D&D treats it like a condition that it is up to the target to avoid or mitigate, rolling a saving throw or just suffering through attrition.

Magic can be dealt with importing the table from Elfline Online: Magic Returns or it can be it’s own strange thing, something that happens to people that must be dealt with outside of the normal process. This latter idea also means less work.

I’d keep conditions as is, I would have to write a bunch of exceptions anyway.

Magic by default is a x1 INT skill, just like in Elfline Online. But if a species starts with a magical cantrip or knowledge of a cantrip, the type of magic they use to cast it is equivalent listed Stat + Magic Skill. So, an Aaismar casts their Light cantrip with EMP + Magic. In universe, this is how people differentiate between traditions like druidism, religious, shadow, wild or weave magic.

If a Magic Skill is required to be calculated, it is saving throw DC-8 = Skill

Example Medusa 5.5E to Cyberpunk RED

REF 7 DEX 7 BOD 6 TECH 6 INT 5 COOL 5 WILL 5 EMP 6

Combat Awareness +6

Deception +5

Perception +4

Stealth +6

Other +3

Thermographic Vision 50 y/m

HP 40 SP 10

Attacks Two Claw + 1 Hair or 3 Ray

Claw +6/+13 2d6

Hair +6/+13 2 Piercing + 4d6 Poison

Ray +5/+12 4d6 Poison

Petrifying Gaze (Recharge 5-6) Roll WILL + Endurance vs DV14

Each creature in a 30-foot Cone. If the medusa sees its reflection in the Cone, the medusa must make this save. First Failure: The target has the Restrained condition and repeats the save at the end of its next turn if it is still Restrained, ending the effect on itself on a success. Second Failure: The target has the Petrified condition instead of the Restrained condition.

RED Species – Players Hand Book

Still a dumb and pointless renaming for races, considering most of the D&D lot can interbreed when bad 70s biology isn’t being used. I will only note the changes required for the mechanics later as things have delayed this longer than they should have.