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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 5139406" data-attributes="member: 2">For folks who don't know, D&D Encounters is a WotC promotional campaign played every Wednesday for 12 weeks; you head into your local store with a 1st level PC and play one encounter in an Undermountain adventure. The thought is that since it's just 1-2 hours of time, it's easier to sneak away each week to go play. I ran across this at PAX East and thought I'd go in and try it. The cost at Your Move Games in Somerville MA was $2.There were enough people to fill two tables in each slot (7pm and 9pm). I was lucky in that our DM was excellent, someone I already knew through Gospog. Our table was six people, four men and two women; one of the guys had never played a RPG of any type before (other than computer games like WOW and Baldur's Gate) but had wanted to give D&D a try. Everyone was friendly and fairly funny, a nice group of people.This encounter featured non-human foes who couldn't speak. One thing that surprised me, though, is that folks weren't trying to role play within the group. That may be a side effect of tossing together six strangers.The encounter itself was easier than I'd expected. We had a mini-skill challenge to figure out where we were headed in the dungeon, a fast fight in a sewer (six 1st lvl heroes against two fire beetles and a stirge), and then a good skill challenge to open a magically locked door. The DM handled the skill challenge in a satisfying way,  allowing for player improvisation but with consequences for failure.Overall? Good fun, even with the light role playing. I'd definitely do more of these. What have other people thought?</blockquote>

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