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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 6670099" data-attributes="member: 40398">Well I had fun, and the two present players said they did too. We played through it a bit faster than I thought we would, mostly because the party navigator passed every single Dungeoneering check. (Despite not being trained!)In structuring the overall SC, I set up four 'exploration roles' that the characters could volunteer for as they chose. (Navigator, scout, finder, lookout.) None of the characters were trained in the top-priority skills -- except for the ranger, who has a crazy Thievery bonus -- but the players got creative and a little lucky, and they made it through.As for the mini-encounters, I ended up using a combination of randomized one-skill-check encounters and choice-driven set-piece encounters. Thanks to the former, the warlord's leg got mangled by a bear-trap, but the party also got a little richer. Thanks to the latter, the party encountered two complex traps, a failed necromantic experiment who begged for death, and found the BBEG's journal. They also heard a goblin singing a dirge, but opted to bypass that encounter.From the player's side,  [MENTION=6790260]EzekielRaiden[/MENTION] suggests giving players some choice in which set-pieces to encounter in which order, using some sort of fail-forward design. (I lined up my set-pieces in order, and the only question was "How many Dungeoneering checks does the party navigator need to roll before the next success, and thus the next set-piece?")From my side, the exploration skill rolls were a bit awkward. The way I set up each exploration round was: Players roll exploration rolls, which effect possible random stuff, and then I roll to see if random stuff happens. So often, the exploration rolls didn't matter because nothing random happened. For example, the scout passed at least a couple of checks to forewarn the party of random combat encounters...but I didn't roll a single combat all session! So next time I'm either going to build the random-stuff rolls into the exploration rolls, or roll for random stuff before having players roll their exploration rolls. At least that way there's less for me to keep track of, and no purpose-less rolls.All in all, it was still great fun and a good experience!</blockquote>

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