D&D 4E 4e Home Encounters

[OnlineDM]

NewbieDM and friends have just published their first encounter in their 4e Home Encounters series. The idea is that, since Wizards of the Coast is not releasing their D&D Encounters adventures for use in home play, the community is creating its own version that everyone can run however they like. I think it's a nifty idea, and I'll be curious to see if it catches on.

Apparently their cartographer had to bow out of the project, so the first adventure doesn't have a JPG map, just recommended Dungeon Tiles. I went ahead and created a JPG map based on their outline that's free if anyone wants to use it in a VTT like MapTool. I also PosteRazed it into a PDF that's printable, if anyone wants it.

Finally, I'm curious about the community's thoughts around having the Home Encounters be made available as a standing online game. For instance, if I said I would host a game in MapTool every Monday evening at a certain time, just to run the latest Home Encounter, would anyone be interested in that sort of thing?

 

[RavenBlackthorne]

Can I just say that I think that's a fantastic idea! If time differences don't cause an issue, I'd be very much up for this!

 

[_NewbieDM_]

Hey guys... glad you like the idea!
I certainly hope people find it and use it.
Thanks for making the maps, that's very useful.
Yeah, I figured that there would be others like me who can't make it to a gaming store on Wednesday nights, so why not do a community driven thing?
Thanks for the plug!

 

[OnlineDM]

Thanks for the XP all... but only one person interested in actually playing? (Thanks RavenBlackthorne!) I have to say, I'm surprised! I really think this is a cool idea, and something I'd like to support. I'm totally up for running or playing a MapTool 4e Home Encounters game sometime.

I'm also surprised that I seem to be the only one really jazzed about this idea. I honestly expected there to already be a thread about this on EN World with a fair amount of conversation. Maybe I'm just weird... and being weird by RPG standards is saying something!

Just to be clear, I have no official connection to this project or anything like that. I just read about it online and thought it sounded like an awesome community-building idea.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Let me chime in: simply terrific! Let me thank you for your work for the community.

 

[RavenBlackthorne]

I'm also majorly surprised! Hopefully it'll pick up interest. Maybe people haven't seen your offer of a game because they were so excited about the map!

 

[Raunalyn]

Fantastic idea! And, count me in if you're going to do a regular, weekly encounter. I'd be thrilled to join!

 

[Brys]

I'd love to see more Encounters/one-shot style adventures published (especially if they have maps). Even if I don't ever get to use them or play them, I love reading the idea behind the encounter.

I'd usually love to play the Encounter as well but can't commit to anything due to changing work/family schedules. I'd love to run through them as play-by-post though as that meets my schedule needs much better. I know it's not the same experience, but I have a fear of commitment...

 

[OnlineDM]

I've finally gotten an invitation to the Virtual Table beta, and it seems like this would be an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone - test out the Virtual Table and try out 4e Home Encounters.

I'd like to start a weekly 4e Home Encounters game using the Virtual Table. It would only be open to people in the Virtual Table beta, unfortunately. I think Monday evenings would be a good time to run it. Since it's just one encounter a week, I imagine it would take less than two hours.

I'm in the US on Mountain Time, and I'd probably want to run the game at 6:00 or 7:00 PM my time.

Anyone interested? Feel free to chime in on this thread or send me a private message if you are.

 

[gamefiend]

totally excited to see this! I did all the encounter design on Chapter 1, so I'm curious to hear what people think! I'm also talking to a couple of people about running some online games for people as well, so maybe we can make this a launching point for games? We'll try to make a lot of games available to people.