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Anyway...

I just did up a little spreadsheet to write down what monsters are where and at what CR/EL, and then mirrored to that is what the 4e conversion might be (if it already exists, or notes on what might need to be built). There's a lot of unique critters in RA:RE, but I think a few encounters can easily have some of the 'standard' 4e monsters tossed in to get a little extra mileage out of the 4e Monster Manual.

Anyway, I'm sure I'd rather make the unique monsters, and I'll get to that soon(ish) along with whatever Scott's got time to post.

But just to show how dead simple SOME of this could be, here's my view of the GROUND LEVEL: THE MAUSOLEUM.

Encounter 1 = normal rats, dire rats and some wererats (random numbers of each) for up to an EL 4 encounter.

So, I decided to just go with the high end (I can subtract if I want to later); I did up an EL 4 encounter in 4E rules that looks very much the same: 3 Rat Swarms, 2 Dire Rats, and 2 Wererats. That's 875 XP, or exactly an EL 4 encounter for five PCs in Fourth Edition.

Encounter 2 = green guardian gargoyles, 8 of them in fact, for what is supposed to be an EL 10 encounter.

This one is harder. The green guardians in 3.5E are CR 4 creatures, and there's a slew of them (8, as mentioned). In 4E, they are a level 9 creature (well, a standard gargoyle in 4e is). So I looked in the suggested encounters on the Gargoyle page and saw one that was EL 9 that contained Galeb Duhr Earthbreakers.

So, I just changed the encounter to 3 gargoyles and 3 galeb duhr earthbreakers, which is a total of 2250 XP, or just in-between an EL 9 and EL 10 encounter in 4E.

Finally, Encounter 3 = Black Skeleton and a little death trap for an EL 9 encounter.

This one was very "non-4E-ish" in that it's a single monster with an accompanying trap. Boooooring in 4E. So, to get an EL 9 encounter in 4E, I decided to grab a trap of level 8 (the Flame Jet) which is the same CR as the trap in the RA:RE book, and then threw in a couple different skeletons: 4 Boneshard Skeletons and 4 Blazing Skeletons. That's a total of 1950 XP, which is just 50 points shy of a Level 9 encounter for 5 PCs in Fourth Edition.


Now, don't think I'm gonna write all this out for every level...first of all "no!" and second of all, I'm sure no one who owns the rights to RA:RE wants me reprinting all their encounter information ;-) But, that's just an example of what can be done. It took me about 5 minutes to do up (it took me like 10 times as long to type all this junk out here, ironically), and the only work I think I would really have to do is maybe change up that Flame Jet trap to something that more closely models the trap listed in RA:RE, but use the appropriate level-based damage and such equal to the Flame Jet so it's balanced at that CR (in 3.5E speak). Bam! That's it.

All that said, I'm going to start working on converting some of the unique critters over at some point in the next several days and post them in the thread Scott started.