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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 6364854" data-attributes="member: 3586">I have both the adventure and the D&D Encounters version. The texts are identical except that the D&D Encounters version gives suggestions for breaking up the adventure into 2-hour blocks. Note that Encounters is only concerned with the first three episodes.The first episode consists of a number of missions, which the Encounters version rates in a sidebar of being short or long. An Encounters session will probably fit in one one long mission or two short missions.The second episode has a couple of encounters that fit into one session, then the rest goes very freeform and might take 1-2 sessions, or even less than 1 session!The third episode which has a dungeon delve) has suggestions for the lengths of encounters, and also suggests extra "random" encounters if necessary to fill out a session (because a short + long encounter would take too long for the time allotted).I'm not really seeing much of the original text being "made for Encounters". Encounters DMs need to do some fiddling to make it all work.It is really, really worth having a look at the <a href="http://www.koboldpress.com/k/tag/tiamat-tuesday" target="_blank">Tiamat Tuesdays articles</a> by the Kobold Press design team, particularly this one about the <a href="http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page18252.php#.U_QtN8XZaSo" target="_blank">first four episodes</a> and this one about  <a href="http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page18369.php#.U_QuTsXZaSo" target="_blank">how later episodes are more open-ended</a> with regard to the players' approach to them.Cheers!</blockquote>

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