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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Truename" data-source="post: 6041699" data-attributes="member: 78255">WotBS is excellent. The 4e conversion... not so much. The encounters are poorly designed and it has has questionable additions to the adventures. But my (4e) group is still having a great time. We've been playing it for about two years.Our secret? Play the 3.5e version and build my own encounters. It's not as time consuming as you fear: encounter building is amazingly easy in 4e. Just decide how hard you want  it to be, look up the matching encounter budget, then pick some  monsters that are "close enough" and reflavor them to match the  adventure. I do this before every game and it works great. Takes me  about 30 minutes using the DDI Compendium... 15 minutes if I'm in a  rush. (Then there's additional time for reviewing the adventure, drawing  battle maps... normal DM stuff.)3 PCs (your wife, the DMPC, and a companion character) isn't a problem at all if you do this. My group currently has 3 PCs due to some newborn babies.To pull this off, you do need a DDI subscription or some monster books. But it lets you sidestep the question of "how do I make the combat work" by letting you just decide how combat works.</blockquote>