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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6457083" data-attributes="member: 25818">While I would agree that Dead in Thay was the least favorite of the playtest modules among my Encounters group, I wouldn't go and say it's "poor."What DiT tried to do was put a cap on the playtest experience by giving the players some stuff they'd been clamoring for on the message boards:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">An homage to old-school modules (the links to Tomb of Horrors are obvious and plentiful).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The ability to play higher-level characters. Encounters play generally tops out at 4; a lot of the really cool stuff comes with higher levels. DiT allowed players to play a huge variety of high-level PCs, but they had to constrain the module as a result -- there's so many options for an 8th-level wizard, having a wider playing field than a single dungeon could have caused unforeseen mountains of work for the volunteer DMs who run this stuff for the stores. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It gave the DMs leeway to work outside the box, which is a skill I think 4E's set-piece encounter method caused to atrophy (in Encounters -- in my home games, it was never an issue). I think the idea was that the store DMs were still adjusting to the fact that the modules no longer came with specific set-piece combat encounters, and had "NPC interaction" and "exploration" elements; in the 4E Encounters modules, these elements were minimized due to the 2-hour slot window.</li> </ol>I think it's a great dungeon crawl, with some seriously deadly encounters. I let my players know ahead of time, there was one encounter which, if they triggered, would cause me to kill every PC in the party. I know one DM on the DiT boards who ran three groups of PCs against that one threat before they were able to neutralize it. It took that many groups to wear down his resources.</blockquote>

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