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Yeah that's a good point. However with Encounters, I was under the impression that each table is expected to run through all of the missions so that they generally end at the same spot each time. I know this doesn't always work in theory, but I thought that's what DM's are encouraged to do since...

Directly above this you said that "They don't know jack until they try." in regard to KarinsDad saying this: Seems like you are saying that they shouldn't know anything about the difficulty of defeating a dragon until they try defeating it. Which is quite preposterous in my opinion. Everybody...

Nope, as far as I remember the authors don't give any hint as to what the DM is supposed to do if the players never attack the dragon. An easy way for the DM to resolve that issue is to just say that the Dragon easily killed all of the soldiers and then flew away. Of course that means the...

Declining the missions would work just fine for a home game but for Encounters that doesn’t exactly work out so nicely. If one group skipped parts of chapter 1 they would then be far ahead of other groups if they didn’t do the same. How many players did you have in your groups? When we had...

That's true the internet is not a good representation. But I'm guessing new players won't care enough to come onto an RPG forum and complain about their experience...they will just stop coming to the sessions like I have seen. Most people on RPG forums are not new to roleplaying and will be more...

I’m glad your experiences were so great. Take a look at this thread and other threads about ‘Greenest in Flames’ and you will find many had a different experience than you did. You say that you weren’t lenient when running this adventure, so did you run the adventure exactly as it is written in...

We've had a number of people who have come to Encounters a few times and didn't return. I'm not sure what their reasons were (because they weren't around to ask anymore), but I can guarantee that not everyone is enjoying the meat-grind of Greenest. Who really enjoys being denied playtime and any...

It definitely helps that in Encounters any characters that die who are level 1-4 can be resurrected by their faction for free. As a side note, in my Encounters group one of the player's characters died during the Sanctuary mission. He looked absolutely stunned and I could tell that it was very...

Why do I get the feeling that Amazon is going to ship me one of these defective copies...:-S

I'm not sure what people are missing :confused:. The only time when the book explicitly states that players can avoid fighting an enemy encounter is during Seek the Keep: "Unless characters interfere, the kobolds assume the characters are cultists and ignore them to concentrate on killing the...

I agree that death is and should be part of the D&D gaming experience. However, 'Greenest in Flames' is an awful introduction for new players to the game (likely in an Encounters setting). The entire episode is a meat-grinder (numerous unbalanced encounters with no resting), it has an encounter...

I understand the point of the encounter, I just think it's just really uninteresting since Cyanwrath, besides defeating a character, is such a forgettable character. I've read that he plays an incredibly minor role in future chapters (and the book even says he can easily be replaced), so the...

We were five sessions into Encounters and a few new people showed up. They started off where we ended the previous session. The reason why I say it's bad design is that there is an incredibly small chance a level 1 or 2 character can win the 'duel' with Cyanwrath because he's just way...

Last night in our Encounters game a brand new player, during our very first 'encounter' of the night, volunteered to fight Cyanwrath (he interrupted my attempt to goad Cyanwrath into challenging our entire party). His character went down in one hit (12 damage) and then on the death saving throw...

Yeah that's true. In this case though I suspect it was Amazon because: 1. I have never seen an undamaged hardcover book packaged in a bubble envelope (you're just asking for smashed in corners with this type of packaging) 2. I have had similar experiences ordering from Amazon with other...

Well, I just had my worst experience to date. Last week I order 'Hoard of the Dragon Queen'. Today it arrived enclosed in bubble wrap packaging (which is horrible packaging for hardcovers). Nearly every single corner of the book was smashed in, one corner was so smashed that it created a small...

I've consistently had this problem with Amazon. Nearly 75% of the hardcover books I order arrive with at least some damage to the cover. The worst was a Star Wars EotE book which had enough damage to the bottom of the spine that the cover actually tore (it was a gift so I didn't bother trying to...