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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5516694" data-attributes="member: 463">My favourites are the Level 1 & Level 2 Delves in "Dungeon Delve".  Both are 3 encounters with fun tactical elements and some classic monsters.  As written they will take about 3 hours and are well balanced for a 5-PC group of new players, with opportunities for further expansion and development.   Delve #1 Coppernight Hold concerns a Dwarf Mine overrun by Kobolds and their Wyrmling White Dragon boss - the reasonably-statted dragon at the end makes it a fun intro for newbie players.  As a pre-errata Brute, the dragon's attack bonuses are 2 pts lower than standard, but for brand new players you might want to keep it as-is rather than add 2.   When I ran it the Wyrm Priest kobold shaman escaped his initial battle with the PCs and alerted the dragon & co, making the final battle somewhat harder.Delve #2 is an assault on a partially ruined, Goblin-held Tower, fighting up through the tower, which makes a nice change and creates a more threatening feel, with goblin sharpshooters firing down on the PCs.  A large, tough, well-optimised 1st level PC group could take it on, but I probably wouldn't use it as the first adventure for brand new players.  The Goblin Underboss BBEG is not particularly well designed IMO, too many hp and too little damage output; you might want to make him a standard monster instead of an elite, but up his attacks to Lvl+5 and use the new standard Brute damage which is his (Level+8)x1.25.  AIR he's level 4 so that'd be 12x1.25 or 15, say 1d10+9 or 2d6+8. Otherwise they are both great, fun little single-session adventures.  You can introduce roleplay through eg captured surrendered enemies who can give valuable info on what lies further ahead, plus in Coppernight there are dwarf & human prisoners to rescue.</blockquote>

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