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<blockquote data-quote="Spenser" data-source="post: 4169691" data-attributes="member: 5311">Ok, my group is going to run our very first 4e session this Saturday morning. D&amp;D and eggs and bacon... mmmm, bacon. None of us have played much over the last three years, but we're all keenly interested in trying out the new rules. All we're going to do this first session is run a couple of straight up arena fights with the pregen PCs vs. some monsters, just to kick the tires of the combat system. I'll be the one playing the monsters. I've asked everyone to read through Verys Arkon's *outstanding* rules compilation before we begin. (WotC should give that guy a medal.) And I'll be reading and re-reading the PDF too. But the thing is, my head is still entrenched firmly in 3.x, and I know that I will forget stuff or screw up the rules. Now that's all well and good, mistakes happen and that's the kind of the point of this test session, to work out some bugs before we start a real campaign. My question is for those of you who have already run a session -- what were the most common combat rules that *you* messed up? Or that were just general points of confusion? If any patterns start showing up, I would love to know about them so that I can study up on those particular sections. Finally, I'll take any random advice about &quot;running your first 4e combat session&quot; that you have to offer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spenser, post: 4169691, member: 5311"] Ok, my group is going to run our very first 4e session this Saturday morning. D&D and eggs and bacon... mmmm, bacon. None of us have played much over the last three years, but we're all keenly interested in trying out the new rules. All we're going to do this first session is run a couple of straight up arena fights with the pregen PCs vs. some monsters, just to kick the tires of the combat system. I'll be the one playing the monsters. I've asked everyone to read through Verys Arkon's *outstanding* rules compilation before we begin. (WotC should give that guy a medal.) And I'll be reading and re-reading the PDF too. But the thing is, my head is still entrenched firmly in 3.x, and I know that I will forget stuff or screw up the rules. Now that's all well and good, mistakes happen and that's the kind of the point of this test session, to work out some bugs before we start a real campaign. My question is for those of you who have already run a session -- what were the most common combat rules that *you* messed up? Or that were just general points of confusion? If any patterns start showing up, I would love to know about them so that I can study up on those particular sections. Finally, I'll take any random advice about "running your first 4e combat session" that you have to offer. :) Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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