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Originally Posted by Shroomy

Are there any opportunities for role-playing encounters? One of the best parts about H3 was the sections devoted to roleplaying with the various factions.

There is the town, and there are some captives in one of the monster's lairs. There's some to talk about though, so click on the spoiler block.

Spoiler:

Take a look at the first encounter, the excerpt that WotC put out.

At the top of the second page is "Roleplaying the Oni Mage". One of the options is the Oni disguising himself as the dead courier and, if he fools the PCs, lead them into a dangerous situation and escape.

That is the RP encounters; monsters that pretend to be people and sucker-punch the party. With ONE exception (see below).

In the Warren (the big first area), there's a scene with two briar hags, and hanging from cages in the ceiling are giant boneshard skeletons. The hag in the room poses as a crone mending mushrooms, and waits for the PCs to get close, before dropping the whammy. (There's a sidenote that if the PCs fall at any time in the Warren, they end up in the cages).

In one of the Additional encounters in the DM booklet, in the Feywild, it has one with a Lamia posing as an eladrin scholar who offers up a treasure map. The treasure map is warded to blind whoever looks at it for a round, while she and her hook horror allies pounce on the party.

THE EXCEPTION:

In the warren is an adult black dragon. There is actually a skill challenge allowing the PCs to negotiate with the dragon for safe passage. If the PCs succeed with no failures, the dragon even gives a +3 Mordant longsword to fight the trolls.