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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 4799904" data-attributes="member: 20805">Capn.. I have to agree, but only in some regards.I am currently running the War of the Burning Sky in 4e. Since RW and crew haven't been kind enough to add me to their playtest group, this means I am converting the 3.5 modules over as I go. It would be a fairly simple thing to swap stat-blocks and keep charging ahead..but let me give you an example problem. Module #6, level 13th ish, Castle Korstul has an encounter where two Stone Golems and a bunch of skeletons ambush the party. 4E Stone Golums are level 17 Elite Soldiers. My 13th Level melee focused Druid can hit these beasts on a 18 or better... The encounter build is still pretty good, but this is supposed to be the front door and expectation of harder things inside. So it needs to be tweaked. Converting is harder when the encounter is in a 3.x attrition paradigm and you basically have to redesign the encounter from scratch.OTOH... Before we went to 4e I was spending an average of 3 hours preparing for a 4 hour session. Trying to get down the details of the monster abilities and tactics, tweaking as needed for my striker heavy group. Now I spend maybe a single hour in prep, which includes building custom monsters as needed. So, yes. Publishers should not be stating 'Really easy to convert to 4e', as that implies the ability to run on the fly with the compendium open. But, 4e is a heck of alot easier to convert to than 3x.Most 4e modules {delve specifically} could do with bigger maps. My Druid has a move of 8 in Beast Form, 10 when charging, and generally gets a free shift in there somewhere. The last 4 games have been spent in cramped quarters where movement didn't matter and the controllers very easily locked half the opposition out of the encounter. There was a thread in the HR forum a while back that suggested the 'normal' size for an encounter should be along the lines of (#PCs * average PC Move) + (#NPCs * average NPC move) in squares.That gives the mobility based builds a chance to be mobile and the NPCs a chance to overcome the controllers game-over moves.</blockquote>

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