D&D 4E How to Build 4E Solo Adventures?

[Garthanos]

My wife is using a Dragonborn. We used the free DDI Character Builder, and that worked out fine. At first I forgot her character's power drew from sources other than the PHB, and it confused the heck out of my wife as she flipped through the print book. Once I cleared that up, explaining powers and such was easy. It seems A subscription to DDI really makes owning Players Books unnecessary where there's computer and internet access.

Having the computer to build the characters on is pretty much the only requirement builder works just fine when the internet is down . (the subscription gets you on going updates and Dragon and Dungeon magazine content and the database searching etc). In fact I would say getting up to date on all the players handbooks and associated content is worth it to take even just 1 month subscription.

 

[Turtlejay]

After playing the one-on-one adventure from DDI with my daughter again, I am considering going at one on my own. I would probably dumb down a lot of things, and try and run it more like Chatty DM's RP sessions with his son, Nico. I know my daughter had already memorized part of the encounter, since on her second time through she was telling her younger brother about which way she needed to go to get to the end and fight the 'evil wizard'. Not only would a more free-form adventure eliminate that, but I could also finally set her against the dragon she's been wanting to fight since I offered to play Dungeons and Dragons with her.

If I do it, I'll post here to update how it is going. Overall, it seems like folks are enjoying the 1v1 adventures, so I am excited to try.

Jay