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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CroBob" data-source="post: 5695128" data-attributes="member: 6683307">I can't claim I read all of what everyone else stated, yet, but I'll toss in a few suggestions and if I accidentally mention something someone else said... well, I guess that's what happens, then;* The first adventure (perhaps even the whole campaign) will be more about learning the rules than trying make the super-besterest campaign EVAR. Don't be scared to segment it. I'm sure your experience as well as that of your players will hasten the learning, but don't be scared to learn particular sorts of rules each at a time, instead of trying to take everything in immediately.* Something I learned early on is that things tend to move faster if you keep a sheet with your players' defense scores on it, so you don't have to ask if your attack hit them, you can just say "You totally got hammered in the face". Also, I like to have my players roll a bunch of initiatives before we begin, that way I can just plug the monsters in there and get right into the fight.* The rules of fourth are very combat oriented, a move I like. Many nay-sayers point to this and say they removed the role-playing aspects. No. They removed the rules which restricted or made roleplaying silly ("I've killed hundreds of monsters, so I can sew better than that tailor we met back in town, lawls!"). Anyway, my point was that the combat can take a while. Each combat is more involved and tactical than in previous editions, so don't worry if they're taking forever. They will tend to take longer than in previous editions, but after you catch on to this edition it will move faster (that may be a "duh").</blockquote>

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