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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 4978255" data-attributes="member: 99">It sounds like most of our opinions are pretty much in agreement.  This would probably be a good time to mention that, whether he meant to or not, Piratecat's adventure design mitigated some of the learning curve issue.His adventure design model is consistant enough that he's given it a name:  Narrow-Wide-Narrow.  This means that the plot starts off in a situation where the immediate course of action for the party is either very obvious or perhaps mandated (like an in-media-res start).  This then opens up into whatever the central problem of the adventure is, at which point the PC's can take one of many paths.  These paths lead to some kind of exciting conclusion, often a set-piece battle of some sort.For one-shot games where you have limitations that don't exist in regular campaign play, this design is brilliant for a lot of reasons that deserve their own thread.  Suffice it to say that Piratecat is REALLY good at it.My point is that PC's style throws you right into the action, at which point you're going to have to confront the 4e character sheet.  But this starting fight is also likely to be relatively easy and so picking the optimal power is probably not necessary.  The game then transitioned into a more roleplaying/problem solving mode.  This required a good many skill rolls, and that part the group found easy and familiar because skills in 4e are pretty darned similar to those of 3.x in terms of the mechanics.  The "wide" part of the adventure also had the focus of the roleplaying shifting from one player to another, giving those not directly involved some time to read some of the powers/feats/items/etc more carefully.  It looked like folks had a better handle on how best to deploy their resources in the final (cool!) battle.</blockquote>

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