I keep telling my players we need to play some Call of Cthulhu so they can be traumatized and then after that some Rifts so they can hate character creation.
Have you heard of Arcanum? (https://www.amazon.com/Arcanum-Atlantean-Trilogy-Stephan-Michael/dp/0961077050) The character stats are somewhere between D&D 2nd Edition and the Palladium universe. It should, in theory, be possible to accurately convert between the the Palladium universe and D&D (although I haven't sat down to try it yet) using the Arcanum system as an intermediary step. That means that you could convert from ANY D&D world/system to things like Rifts, TMNT, Robotech, Rifts, etc. and vice versa. From there you should be able to extend that to convert accurately between any system. If done responsibly, that is. No need to have a glitterboy in Myth Drannor, yeah?
I did a one off CoC session - that was really fun, actually. We all died, of course. We always all die. Mostly because we do things to piss off the DM intentionally - in jest of course), so then we get the "Well, OK, if THAT'S what you want to do...." warning, and we go ahead anyways, and get killed because we are morons.
Or, we run through a dungeon to the BBEG ignoring everything in front of us so that when we arrive, we have to kill him fast or all the dungeon behind us traps us and makes short work of things. Since I usually
I have not played Arcanum - looks interesting. Atlantean, so underwater stuff?
Since all my stuff was 2 or 3(3.5), I am getting good at converting old to new so we can run 5e world.
I'm not sure. I haven't gotten past the mechanics, honestly. The character system, mechanics, classes, and whatnot were most interesting.
Have you heard of a movie called "Five Million Years to Earth"? Very Lovecraftian.
Nice! Just had a group dissolve due to cancer, starting a new group on Saturday - we are going to do 5e for a bit, but new games/versions are on the table for discussion.
It's not super serious, but should be fun.
Have been looking to actually run a campaign using Zweihander, so will need to read all the rules and see.
Definitely post up some of your notes, love to hear the stories and the ways people come up with solutions to the problem.