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I made a PDF of 74 spells I ported from AD&D to 5e (Because you asked for it)
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Hello! If you read the original post about this, skip this part, I'm just gonna copy-paste what was in it:

Hello! I am an avid D&D player and a filthy min-maxer have a passion for making unique builds and exploring the rules. I also happened to stumble across an old AD&D book named WIZARD SPELL COMPENDIUM, in all of its 4 volumes glory. I was fascinated by its contents and decided that some of these spells deserved a place in 5e.

I will now write down my findings, how I did this, why I did this and all the details. If you don't want to read that, just skip to the blue links below~

How does an AD&D book read like to a 5e player?

Not very well, turns out. They have very different systems, THACO, dweomers, and all sorts of things I just had to glaze my eye over and ignore. Also, lot of the spells are made for very specific purposes (Protection from Birds drew a giggle out of me) or didn't age well (Summon Equine Beings only lets you summon unicorns if you're female). Those were the most interesting bits I learned from it, and how the ancients (Some of them who might still be here?) played D&D.

Why those 74?

The 4 volumes together have over 1000 pages, and I had to handpick the ones I thought fit 5e, filled a niche that was not in the game yet, or strengthened archetypes/flavors that needed some love (Necromancers being a big one). I don't need to explain why "Protection from Gases, 5' Radius" didn't make the cut.

How close are these spells to their AD&D counterparts?

My main goal going into these was to keep as much as I could, while also keeping it balanced. Some levels were changed, the damages were almost entirely redone to fit 5e, and some of these cut effects or added completely new ones, but always with the goal of keeping the spirit of the original. Some of these are still underpowered, maybe some of these are still overpowered (haha, 20d10 go brr), but porting, much like translating a language, is not just a copy-paste process, and changes had to be made.

Where is Sticks to Snakes?

Not in this book. I too was sorely disappointed.

And here are the spells~

Here's a link to the original post if you want the spells on D&D Beyond

EDIT: PDF link and OneDrive died for some godforsaken reason, but here's a google drive link!

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