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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 5120888" data-attributes="member: 5890">I'll just give a run down of some things that strike me as a player1. Too many creatures with very high defenses. 2. Too many daze/stun effects.3. Too little treasure.4. Treasure that's too specialised. As an example, one of the early modules gives out bloodcut hide armor. Since at the time only PHB1 was out, the classes that wear hide armour out-of-the-book are... rangers. And even then, many melee rangers will end up in chain. I mean sure, DMs are supposed to tailor treasure to the party, but the default state for treasure shouldn't be "stuff that only one class can/will use".#1 makes for long fights, #2 exacerbates the problem, and #3+#4 is the candle on the cake.5. To many villains that seem to be out to get us for no particular reason, and whom we only meet during our final encounter, and whom we only kill because they attack us. Surely SOME of them could meet and annoy us earlier under the trappings of civilisation? I mean, sure, they all keep leaving incriminating signed notes on their minions, so at least we learn their names and some fraction of their evil plans, but it would have been a lot more interesting if we'd actually seen them earlier on, and they HADN'T signed their notes. Then we'd have been chasing a mystery villain and we'd have gotten a plot twist!6. Too many encounter "gotcha's" where the encounter seems to be telling you to try one tactic, but that tactic is useless.For instance, in keep on the shadowfell:[spoiler] why would we expect that shoving the main bad guy into the portal would kill him? Isn't he deliberately opening the portal? Why is there a big tentacled thing there? I thought it was the plane where undead come from, not tentacled monstrosities? A more fitting encounter would have been if undead spilled from the portal throughout the fight.[/spoiler]ORIn Thunderspire:[spoiler] Paldimar(or possibly some other mage, it's difficult to tell one mage from another) has some pillars, and during the encounter he runs over to one, draws power from it, then blasts the party... Why does he run over to it when he can draw power from it from across the room? It would have been a much more satisfying encounter if he'd needed to be within 2 squares of a pillar to draw power from it: then the encounter would have been based around keeping him away from pillars, a pleasant diversion. As it was, we tried to keep him away from a pillar, and he blasted us anyway...[/spoiler]ORAgain in thunderspire:[spoiler] the only places so far during the entire game that fireplaces have existed in dwellings, and they're in the dwellings of a race who are highly resistant to fire, duergar.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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