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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5233775" data-attributes="member: 75065">Two extended rests during a jail break... hard to imagine, really. Unless your tlalking about having survived 2 nights outside of the prison after they have escaped.  What is more important to you: -Going easy on what you call a newbie group of players -Or giving them a play experience where their decisions as a group matter. I know which one I'd prefer. I guess setting up a situation so difficult to overcome that they are bound to be slaughtered by the 3rd encounter unless they... unless they... hide themselves in a nearby discarded paper bag is not an ideal starter adventure. Something like a Jail break can be perfectly run as Skill Challenge. Each fail could have lead to a bloody but short combat encounter. You could have mapped out your prison and depending on their escape route the group would have to overcome different obstacles and difficulties. Rather than: Can you hack your way through hundreds of prison guards, you could have run it more free flow, narrative where viable solutions could meet with success before anyone even picked up a dice to roll an ability check. Once out of the Jail when the bounty hunters, guards, tracker dogs and hired assassins have been sent after them, then resting holed up in Grandma Fudge's barn is a believable and viable option between encounters. In the prison itself... you'd have a hard job convincing me, but I'm open mided... Any way, these are options to keep in mind in future. As I player I'd be frustrated by two things in particular:1) I am forced to go this way even though I think this other way is a better option (probably avoiding combat)2) My actions have no consequence, including my errors. I guess 'needing to go easy on these poor defenseless newbies' can be substituted by providing alternatives to their actions which don't involve combat encounters at all. Letting your players know that they can imagine there way out of a situation and into a solution is an important concept to put forward to new players as early as possible.</blockquote>

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