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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5249179" data-attributes="member: 52734">I just bought HS1 Slaying Stone this afternoon, as I'm considering doing (another) stab at 4E with essentials line coming up.  I see the adventure has some good ideas and it strikes me as a heck of a lot better than Shadowfell.  It looks like it's got several interesting encounters, but the adventure layout has me pretty confused - it's certainly not the best layout I've run across for conveying the overall story.My only beef with the adventure (and it's pretty small) is:[sblock]I still don't really understand why Treona wants the stone destroyed, rather than just removed - or use it to try and clean out/recapture Kiris Dahn from the humanoids.  Destroying it just seems an arbitrary way to keep it out of PCs hands for the long haul or as a mcguffin to kick off the quest.Also, the opening "here's how you get the quest" is pretty lame.  I think I'd rather use "Treona has summoned you to this tower for a quest she wants you to undertake - oh, and by the way Dreus sents these wolves to stop/delay you" instead of "Hi, I'm Treona and after I saw how you folks who I have never met before handled that wolf ambush I think I can trust you to recover this powerful artifact for me..."[/sblock]Reading through it, my initial impression it does still suffer from "too many fights" syndrome, but we'll see how it goes.</blockquote>