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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parlan" data-source="post: 4500004" data-attributes="member: 16808">I'd like some suggestions for a problem I've been wrestling with.  I'm kicking off a new campaign this Sunday.  I have 3 players.  So far there's a paladin, a wizard, and one undecided (and I'm not sure just how definite the pally and wizzie are).  I'm an inexperienced DM.  I've run about 6 sessions of WFRP 2e, and never D&D, although I've played a ton of 3.x and a couple of sessions of 4e.I'd like to run at least a couple of pre-written adventures both to cut down on the prep required and also to get a good sense of how to build an adventure.  I was thinking of starting off with Rescue at Rivenroar.  I think the plot will appeal to my players.  However, the more I look at it, the more I worry about the adventure:  There's a lot of combat.  I only have 3 playersMy players are not particularly tactically savvy.My first thought was to create a cleric NPC to accompany them.  He'd basically stand back and heal them, and I'd ask one of the players to run him.  I think this would make the party much more durable.  However, as a player, I really dislike have extra characters in the party.  Cohorts, DMPCs, it doesn't matter, I feel like they take the focus off the actual PCs.I've thought of toning down the opposition in the adventure, but since it was written for 5 PCs, I'm going the have to scale it down a LOT.  This might almost be more work than creating my own adventure.  Any thoughts?</blockquote>

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