I am running an episodic 4E campaign. We are currently finishing Madness at Gardmore Abbey, which gets the group to level 9. I have a self-written adventure after that, which should get them to level 11. And after that I was thinking of running P1 King of the Trollhaunt Warrens.
Now I try to keep a 50:50 balance between time spent in combat encounters and time spent in role-playing encounters. And looking at the adventure, it appears to me that King of the Trollhaunt Warrens is possibly having too many combat encounters. So I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to shorten the adventure, editing some of the combat encounters out. For example the Great Warren alone has 13 combat encounters, and maybe 7 or so would do. There are 5 combat encounters in the Raid on Moonstair, which I would shorten to 3. And so on. The overall idea is to keep the story and exploration the same, but shorten the time spent in combat. Do you think that would be feasible?
Has anybody here experience with running King of the Trollhaunt Warrens, and could give me some advice on which encounters are great, and which encounters I could edit out without missing much?
P.S. I am aware of the Orcus conversion of P1, which does have a smaller warren.
Now I try to keep a 50:50 balance between time spent in combat encounters and time spent in role-playing encounters. And looking at the adventure, it appears to me that King of the Trollhaunt Warrens is possibly having too many combat encounters. So I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to shorten the adventure, editing some of the combat encounters out. For example the Great Warren alone has 13 combat encounters, and maybe 7 or so would do. There are 5 combat encounters in the Raid on Moonstair, which I would shorten to 3. And so on. The overall idea is to keep the story and exploration the same, but shorten the time spent in combat. Do you think that would be feasible?
Has anybody here experience with running King of the Trollhaunt Warrens, and could give me some advice on which encounters are great, and which encounters I could edit out without missing much?
P.S. I am aware of the Orcus conversion of P1, which does have a smaller warren.