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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 4976944" data-attributes="member: 83805">For one-shot games played over an evening, it would depend on what the other players were interested in.Over the years my preference would be to use one of the basic D&D box sets for a 1-shot game.  I've played several 1-shot and long weekend marathon type games using the basic D&D clone Basic Fantasy rpg.For 4E, I usually simplify some of the rules to speed things up for a 1-shot evening game, such as:- use group initiative instead of everybody individually rolling for their initiative- reduce the monster hit points to half- premade charactersTo save time, I've used one of those short "free rpg day" (and other events) modules like:Khyber's Harvest:<a href="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4dnd/khybersharvest" target="_blank">Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Khyber's Harvest)</a>Treasure of Talon Pass:<a href="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4dnd/20080808b" target="_blank">Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Treasure of Talon Pass)</a>EDIT:  For some 4E encounters, I've found things move along faster when some monsters are replaced with their minion versions or modified minions (ie. require two or three hits to kill).EDIT2: For leveling up, I usually don't do it as strictly by specific XP values.  If I feel the players have reached a milestone of some sort, I'll just have them level up all at once.  In most 1-shot games I've done, the players may level up once or twice through the evening.</blockquote>

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