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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Windjammer" data-source="post: 4915881" data-attributes="member: 60075">Thanks for your review, Merric. It's quite solid, though I think you could have mentioned the somewhat odd design choice to rescale the moathouse in the 4E version so it's only 2 thirds of its original size (check the battle map).A key thing I agree with your review on is that it's a pity the (however brief) write up of 4E Hommlet doesn't mention a key element - the subtle conflict (in and around the village) between the old druidic faith and the "new" faith in St Cuthbert. That's even more surprising given that Mike Mearls said that this element in the original T1 module was a key player for 4E designers coming up for a rationale in the divide between the primal and divine power source. (It's somewhere in the DDI design articles on PH2.) So, on the one hand this element of the original T1 had a hugely formative influence on 4E, on the other they don't care to mention it when they re-release T1 for 4E.It's a pity, I think. I also think that Andy Collins' version, while more polished in the mechanical details, is vastly inferior as regards raw flavour to Mike Mearls' version of T1 for 4E. Just compare the two versions of Lareth, and you'll see.</blockquote>