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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gort" data-source="post: 5285038" data-attributes="member: 11239">I ran H1, and as everyone else is saying, it's a complete slog. It's just room after room after room of encounters, often with the same types of monsters you JUST finished killing - so you don't even get the variety of a different type of opponent. Their only real point of interest in the entire dungeon was a "trap room", but it was designed so poorly! The traps only hit specific locations around the room, and only when players moved into them, and emanated from statues. My group just shot all the statues from safety, taking maybe two attacks total from the statues themselves. What a load of rubbish.I briefly ran P1 as a test of what the game was like at paragon level, and we only made it about four or five encounters in. The adventure was of the exact same type as H1 - room after room of monsters.It's a great shame, because the idea of having a whole pre-made massive adventure in a well-produced binder type thingy complete with high-quality maps is a great temptation to me.They should take the format of the dungeon delves - three or so encounters in a row, then a big old plot development with maybe some skill challenges involved. Then another delve, then some more plot.In H1, once you'd done the preamble encounters it was basically, "You must defeat Kalarel" as your objective, but he's hiding behind 25 encounters. It was just a combat slog, and I got tired of it.As someone said earlier: Wizards really don't do the image of 4e any good if their modules - their very own suggestion of "this is how 4e should be played" - is just encounter after encounter after encounter with basically no actual roleplaying in sight.All that said though, I recently played in a 4e campaign that was so shockingly bad that I wish the DM had just been using one of these modules. It was dreadful. He didn't prep anything, and even his world map was dotted with place names from Zelda and other crap JRPGs.</blockquote>

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