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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 5091929" data-attributes="member: 40522">If you've got it available, I'd recommend Into the Shadowhaunt, the 4E adventure played on worldwide D&D game day in 2008. It's got pre-generated 1st-level characters, a basic search-and-rescue story, exploration, a dungeon, and a dragon. One-stop shopping for new players. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Barring that, I would take the first three encounters in Keep on the Shadowfell and re-flavor it slightly. Make the basic story that the characters are acting sheriffs or whatever for Winterhaven and they have been called in to deal with bandits raiding the King's Highway. The one attack on the road and the first kobold lair would give you a milestone before a climactic encounter with Irontooth. You can even throw in a skill challenge or two--one socially-oriented for the characters to gather information about the bandits in Winterhaven, and a wilderness-oriented one to track them from the road back to the cavern lair. The benefit to this approach is that you can easily self-contain the narrative (limiting it to dealing with the bandits), but leave it open-ended in case you want to turn it into a regular thing.For what it's worth, I have several 1st-level pre-gens in .pdf or .doc format if you'd like some... Not as "sexy" as the DDI application, but it's more functional for me.</blockquote>

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