D&D 4E Best adventures for 4e for use with Essentials

[Infernal Teddy]

This has probably been asked a million times before, but which are the best adventues published for 4e so far, and which of those can be used with as little problems as possible with Essentials?

 

[Obryn]

Any of them, honestly. Essentials and Core PCs interact with the game world in the same way. The adventure is the game world.

With that said, I'd try and replace Monster Manual and MM2 creatures with their equivalents in the Monster Vault. I'd do that no matter what sorts of PCs were going through them, though.

-O

 

[Jools]

The Slaying Stone is a nice level 1 adventure.

 

[Klaus]

The Slaying Stone is a nice level 1 adventure.

So are Scepter Tower of Spellguard and Orcs of Stonefang pass.

 

[S'mon]

There's really no such thing as a 'good' 4e adventure IMO, though I'm greatly enjoying playing in Sellswords of Punjar (by Goodman Games) right now. Among WoTC offerings, The Slaying Stone is ok, but IMO would still have been regarded as very weak pre-4e.
The older adventure Siege of Bordrin's Watch is among the best regarded 4e adventures, you can get it here:
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Table of Contents (Dungeon #157 Table of Contents)

 

[Incenjucar]

The main things to watch out for are that a number of essentials classes are especially hampered by flying ranged attackers, and some classes are extra scary when dominated due to their auras affecting their at-wills.

I would avoid using too many mindflyers.

 

[brehobit]

I think of the new monsters as being part of Essentials. As far as I know, Cairn of the Winter King is the one one that is really using the new monsters. It's not a great module--it starts strong but gets weaker as it goes. But it does work will for an essentials group. Well, other than the last fight where the specialized bad guy is A) too much like another monster in the module and B) too weak by a chunk (the party was full-up as I let them rest so I added three creatures and while it was close, the King was just not doing enough damage).