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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 4800596" data-attributes="member: 52905">I also ran two sessions, the second ended in the middle of the last encounter as the store closed. The manager stayed late for us. The event started at noon but when I got there at 11:15 a table was going and people were waiting for me.At one point we had five tables going at once, with lots of people I have never met before and lots of friends. Three of those tables, including mine, ran twice.The start of the adventure was a bit abrupt so I added a bit about the PC's chancing upon this ancient ruin in the middle of the wilderness being rebuilt and reoccupied and them being beseeched by an Old Oracle and a young Scholar, residents of the place. I talked about how soldiers were cleaning up after a siege and how they were oddly dressed with coins of ancient Nerath sewn into their cloths and welded to their armor. I played up the young scholar as being very keen about the caves and any details the players could discover. The Old Oracle was desperate for the return of the book. I did this for both sessions.I did like the skill challenge, I try to show the players what is going on and the weaknesses they can exploit to succeed. I guess I try and run them in an old school style.In my first event the players were running like clockwork, though it wasn't a cake walk. I fumbled a bit on the Rust Monsters, but the beetles were great fun. One of the beetles imbolized the dwarf next to a rust monster, but then the other players came down like a ton of briks. The arbalast was neat to run as well, 'The infernal machine scowles at you and you hear the barely contained strain as it draws it's string, two bolts thunking into the fireing chamber'. The last encounter was tough, even with the vunerable kobold. There was a gasp of relief when she fell.The second session I had four PC's but the dwarfs player couldn't stay after the first encounter, her father had summoned her home. In the first encounter the barbarian managed to grab the ankle of the Harpie, a 'Harpie Balloon' is this fun ball of feathers and screeching madness. They actually managed to kill both it and the kobold. Then, through sheer luck, they almost stealthed through the second encounter.  When the Barbarian player flubbed her roll, one of the players exclaimed 'Rust Monsters!?!?' in this sort of dreading joyfull way. They really dug into the skill challenge, but eventually failed it.I had a lot of fun, and I think and hope my players did to. I met and ran for some new people and for some I only get to play with occasionally. Great times. I also got to show off 'The Village of Hommlet'. There were some brand new RPG players, and a few new to 4th ed. In my area there were a couple stores running the Game Day, I'm not sure how the other events went.</blockquote>

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