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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5687348" data-attributes="member: 54846">Damn. I was going to redo the White dragon using the new math and make it more interesting, but I see they did that in MV. Threats of the Nentir Vale is mostly organizations/groups of badguys.  Here's a group of bandits. Here's a group of witches. Here's a group of  tiefling scoundrels. So it's focused a little more specifically, and has more heroic monsters. The MV is more generic (it's like a normal MM with a spread of various heroic and paragon monsters). If you're wondering what monster manuals you should get (since there are three MMs and two Monster Vaults), <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/310482-moster-manual-priority.html" target="_blank">here is a thread</a> on that.As far as your adventure is concerned, I think one thing that would improve it would be giving players someone to talk to. I imagine that's what's different from the Ravenloft boardgame - NPCs to interact with. The players could come across a wagon that was just attacked by kobolds, and the little guys ran off with the goods, and the poor farmers are irate. Once you get into the Hall, I think the room with the darts is boring and confusing. I still am not quite sure how that trap works. For the encounter with the dragon itself, <a href="http://mearls.livejournal.com/152268.html" target="_blank">here</a>  is a bucket of advice on how to run that encounter - stuff to put in it  to make it a lot more exciting than a slugfest where everyone stands  still.If you are looking to use pre-made adventures, avoid, avoid, avoid Keep on the Shadowfell. I hear really nice things about [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Slaying-Stone-Adventure-HS1-4th/dp/0786953888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316480012&sr=8-1"]The Slaying Stone[/ame] and the adventure that comes with the Dungeon Master's Kit.You played 3e, right? Rangers and Druids had animal companions. They ran those animal companions. So it's not very different. There's even a few 4e builds that come with a pet/companion, so it's not far off, although they differ in 4e pet classes have the pets' actions on the PC's turn, and their power is lower. But the mastiff, after all, could belong to one of the characters, and they could roleplay it.But do what works for you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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