Iron & Gold
Converting from D&D 5E to Iron & Gold (or other genreDiversion games) is sometimes a bit of work. Here are some things I do as a pretty standard thing.
Converting abilities from D&D 5E is hampered because D&D really ranges for PCs from about 8 (low average) to 20 (wow); there are three physical abilities and three intellectual or spiritual ones. Iron & Gold has one or two physical abilities (depending on how you define it) and four or three others that normally range from 2 (low average) to 5 (wow). The problem is reifying those three physical numbers into one much smaller number. Fortunately, there are old instructions for converting 3E D&D to Iron Gauntlets, which used the same stat range (for the part we care about, anyway).
Unfortunately, I don’t like the results; fortunately, I’m happy to change what already exists.
The older guidance suggests adding Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution together and dividing by 10. Because there’s no “average average” in the compressed range of Iron & Gold I prefer dividing by 12.5 and adjusting up if necessary. (This might be a relic of a period of AD&D play when we considered that 8 was truly average and player characters were special and averaged 10.)
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