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<blockquote data-quote="Festivus" data-source="post: 5180955" data-attributes="member: 34532"><p>I ran H1 as my first 4E adventure, so I can sort of compare. Note that I haven't read all the encounters yet for HS1, but here is right off the bat:</p><p></p><p>[sblock]</p><p>It seems like much less of a dungeon crawl. One thing with H1 was that there was an awful lot of crawling through a dungeon of interconnected rooms that you had little in terms of branching opportunities.</p><p></p><p>In HS1, the group is exploring a town. There are several buildings who's interior is an encounter area, but the sequence that they explore is entirely up to the group (plus remember they need to be stealthy in a town occupied by hundreds of goblins), so crossing the main avenue is very likely a skill challenge event.</p><p></p><p>Where in H1 the party was trying to get to whatever the bad thing (kalarel) and his ritual, in this one the item they seek is actually quite safe to begin with, at least for the time being.</p><p></p><p>Big spoiler here, the stone is actually in the possession of a bronze dragon with whom the party must negotiate. The dragon isn't statted up, and truly it would be a TPK should they even try. It's listed as a skill challenge, but what I didn't notice (and I need to still really read this section in closer detail) is what happens should they fail to successfully negotiate with the dragon. It wouldn't be hard to have the party be turned away and the bad guys be able to possibly get their hands on it (or even a showdown where the party and the bad guys both try to talk with the dragon at the same time to convince them that they should have it)[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>I'll know a bit more when I have a bit more time to read it. I brought it to work with the intention or reading the encounters at lunch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Festivus, post: 5180955, member: 34532"] I ran H1 as my first 4E adventure, so I can sort of compare. Note that I haven't read all the encounters yet for HS1, but here is right off the bat: [sblock] It seems like much less of a dungeon crawl. One thing with H1 was that there was an awful lot of crawling through a dungeon of interconnected rooms that you had little in terms of branching opportunities. In HS1, the group is exploring a town. There are several buildings who's interior is an encounter area, but the sequence that they explore is entirely up to the group (plus remember they need to be stealthy in a town occupied by hundreds of goblins), so crossing the main avenue is very likely a skill challenge event. Where in H1 the party was trying to get to whatever the bad thing (kalarel) and his ritual, in this one the item they seek is actually quite safe to begin with, at least for the time being. Big spoiler here, the stone is actually in the possession of a bronze dragon with whom the party must negotiate. The dragon isn't statted up, and truly it would be a TPK should they even try. It's listed as a skill challenge, but what I didn't notice (and I need to still really read this section in closer detail) is what happens should they fail to successfully negotiate with the dragon. It wouldn't be hard to have the party be turned away and the bad guys be able to possibly get their hands on it (or even a showdown where the party and the bad guys both try to talk with the dragon at the same time to convince them that they should have it)[/sblock] I'll know a bit more when I have a bit more time to read it. I brought it to work with the intention or reading the encounters at lunch. [/QUOTE]
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