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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BradfordFerguson" data-source="post: 4290479" data-attributes="member: 20048">1) 4E is more minis-centric, but it isn't necessarily a bad thing.  combat has more positional and positioning powers, so you kinda have to represent battles on a grid.  I think the adventure was written to be somewhat accomodative of newbie or newer DMs, so I think this is why things are pre-placed.  It also wants to emphasize that terrain is important so it does the work for you, the DM, by adding some cover, concealment, etc.2) Just try it.  I think the fights in Keep on the Shadowfell are too hard.  I wrote about this <a href="http://www.4ereviews.com/Opinion/20080609/CombatIn4e.htm" target="_blank">here</a>, so I would recommend making the fights so that the XP total for each fight is closer to 400 for 4 characters and 500 for 5 characters (edit: these are the DMG recommendations and seemed to work for me in session #3).  I definitely wouldn't go over double that, even for boss fights.  Each monster has an XP value, so this is fairly easy to do.  Just try it and see if it is fun.  I think players will think their abilties are "cool" and not think "gosh, they are somewhat 'magical' in nature, but I'm a fighter and that's not realistic, bah, I quit."  I think the reaction you'll get is more like, "rock on."Long-time players of wizards and clerics will not be happy with fewer options, but at least they won't be upstaging everyone else constantly.(Edit: ALSO with Keep.  Don't ambush your players.  This will make them feel flat-footed on their intro to 4E.  Let both sides see each other and begin the first 4 fights on equal footing.  I'm also viewing Keep as my group's intro to combat in 4E, and not necessarily an intro to the campaign I end up running)</blockquote>

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