Dear WotC: Please stop with the level 1-3 previews

[Asmor]

"Rocks fall; you all die."

There's a simpler solution that that... Saturday night, I would have had a TPK if I hadn't strongly suggested to the PCs that they GTFO of dodge (they were fighting a beholder eye tyrant they really weren't ready to fight and were getting cocky because of a few early crits, but they barely survived the couple rounds it took them to actually get out of there).

 

[fba827]

You joke, but I'm seriously contemplating "accidentally" causing a TPK and restarting at level 1 so I can have everyone use the character builder...

I didn't realize the distinction that some were previews and some playtests. Thanks for pointing that out.

I still don't like it, though.

As an alternative to doing a TPK, you could try to have the players make an alt-party that is 1st level (thus letting you use all the goodies you want). They can be in the same campaign world as your main group, just doing different quests (perhaps helping the same goal?). Or it could be alt-campaign entirely separate from the main group. And then switch between the two groups as the need arises.

Of course, whether or not that works depends on your players.

 

[Plane Sailing]

All this is to say, all of these previews/playtests which are limited to levels 1-3 are completely and utterly useless to me.

That may be the case, but it doesn't mean you can start vitriolic threads about previews.

I've renamed the thread and since you appear to have had your statement 'answered' by the distinction between playtests and previews, I'll close the thread too.