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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AngryPurpleCyclops" data-source="post: 4708588" data-attributes="member: 82732">right, everyone will have a lot more fun if you stick to level 3 and below and no elites or solos.  Be careful with soldiers as too many soldiers can make an encounter very rough.  we're very experienced dnd'ers in our gaming group(over 120 years) and a pack of goblin slavers tpk'd us the very first encounter in 4e because we didn't understand our roles yet.  A pair of hobgoblin archer on top of a large rocky outcropping was way too much for us to handle with the melee types jumping us from the get go.  It was probably an N+3 encounter before we knew what we were doing (just learning marks, powers, effects) and it turned out too hard.  I think it would probably work out better if we tried it now but you need to be careful what you present the pc's with.Kobolds and Goblins make great early encounters.  Orc's are a little swingy because a critical hit can kill a level 1 pc in a single roll.  4 orc raiders is a level 1-2 encounter for 5 pc's but if your cleric gets his melon caved in by a 27hp crit on round 1, you're very apt to wind up dead.  If the orcs are using "focus fire" 2 hits on any pc is potentially deadly.</blockquote>