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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6323722" data-attributes="member: 18333">Thanks Nemio.   It is actually very easy to run this game with 2 or 3 players, and quite honestly (as an experienced DM and player) it is easy to modify plans and even improvise for shorter sessions (usually I have rough outlines and possible contingencies ready to go).   That's one of the things I like best about it.As for XP, during the playtest I've been using XP more as a guideline than anything else.   Because we wanted to test out more levels (so far 1-7) in this campaign, I basically just level them up after a number of sessions.   Level 1 was 1 session, level 2 was 2 sessions, levels 3+ about 4 sessions each.If I were using XP, I'd give 2 players what they earned and the group would be a little uneven.  This is another benefit to D&D 5e.   It is entirely possible to have a party with mixed level PCs.   Bounded accuracy keeps the numbers closer so that a 5th level PC can feel useful even in a party of 7th level PCs, etc.TPK, well...not sure what would have happened.   That could be a cliffhanger until next session when the rest of the party finds the bloody and dead bodies of Fid and Darhgel.  Spoiliers (if you are playing in my group, don't read the following)  Fid the Warforge (who used to be a Dwarf) is a gruff fellow.   The transparent men are actually strange agents sent by an devilish bad guy.  They intended to speak with the party to try to get them to help them get the Forever Stone so the one who spoke, bit his own tongue and composed himself before responding to Fid's action.  Now that the party has declined the offer, a group of transparent men will be surprising them later in the adventure when they least expect it.   The transparent men are a made up creature that function like invisible rogues.   They can turn invisible at will.   They wield duel shortswords and can sneak attack.  (More spoilers:  The party has a deed/map to the tower.   A group of transparent men were already at the tower, but they could not get past an electrical trap around the stairway on the first level.  They need the deed to bypass the trap.   Now they are just going to wait and follow the adventurers to see if they can get past the trap.  In the final room of the tower, when the party has gotten them up to the top near the Forever Stone, the transparent men will try to take it anyway they can.</blockquote>

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