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<blockquote data-quote="Tamlyn" data-source="post: 5637197" data-attributes="member: 22563">You might consider running it like an intro/prologue to a novel. You could create pregens for the players that (if some should survive) become NPC's when you start the campaign in earnest. That would eliminate the pressure of rushing creation of a PC they would want to play long-term, and it could free you up to make the encounters higher than first level. Lazybones did this in his novelized version of Keep on the Shadowfell <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/229470-lazyboness-keep-shadowfell-thunderspire-labyrinth.html" target="_blank">here</a> where he killed off the pregens as a prologue before starting the real story with the intended characters. Regarding the encounter, I don't have any experience with 4E. But with my 3.5 campaign I re-skinned hellhounds to look like large lizards with acid damage instead of fire. I partnered them with lizardfolk and gave my lower level PC's a decent challenge and something they hadn't seen before. Or possibly undead in the water with very old equipment or unrecognized religious regalia to tie them into your larger story.Regardless, let us know what you come up with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tamlyn, post: 5637197, member: 22563"] You might consider running it like an intro/prologue to a novel. You could create pregens for the players that (if some should survive) become NPC's when you start the campaign in earnest. That would eliminate the pressure of rushing creation of a PC they would want to play long-term, and it could free you up to make the encounters higher than first level. Lazybones did this in his novelized version of Keep on the Shadowfell [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/229470-lazyboness-keep-shadowfell-thunderspire-labyrinth.html"]here[/URL] where he killed off the pregens as a prologue before starting the real story with the intended characters. Regarding the encounter, I don't have any experience with 4E. But with my 3.5 campaign I re-skinned hellhounds to look like large lizards with acid damage instead of fire. I partnered them with lizardfolk and gave my lower level PC's a decent challenge and something they hadn't seen before. Or possibly undead in the water with very old equipment or unrecognized religious regalia to tie them into your larger story. Regardless, let us know what you come up with. [/QUOTE]

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