ENCOUNTER LENGTH - KEEP OF THE SHADOWFELL
Well, I just couldn't go to bed with that unanswered question floating around on the forum. As I did a conversion of the full H1 to E3 series, it was just an hour work to look at the statistics of the encounters in
Keep of the Shadowfell. As I had already modeled the behaviour of 4th Edition rules, it was easy to do the same exercise for this adventure, so here is the graph:
The Average Encounter length is 3.8 rounds, or 63% longer compared to
the Sunless Citadell with 4.5 Edition rules.
0% of the encounters are under 1 round in length.
4% of the encounters are under 2 rounds in length
36% of the encounters are above 4 rounds in length
Total combat table time is 56 hours if we calculate an average 36 minutes per round with 5 players. This is 58% more combat table time than in
the Sunless Citadell with the 4.5 Edition rules, even though we have reduced the number of encounters from 31 to 25.
Conclusion: We will get a very different gameplay with
the Sunless Citadell using 4.5 Edition rules, compared to the classic 4th Edition adventure
Keep of the Shadowfell. I can't wait to try it out in real play, just to experience the difference.
The Sunless Citadell 4.5 Conversion
4.5 Edition Conversion Guide
/Myrhdraak