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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TikkchikFenTikktikk" data-source="post: 5186960" data-attributes="member: 67494">This is exactly the advice I was hoping for when I started the thread. And this is why I'm taking three months to prep the adventure path for my group.I started reading E1 in depth last night. A major failure I noticed right away was the first section: The player's are advised to do some research to figure out what is going on. Instead of this being a number of minor quest skill challenges, each piece of knowledge is presented as a straight up skill check. IMHO this is a serious mistake and failure to take advantage of one of the best features of 4E (that being skill challenges). Too, the journey through Zvomarana and the tests should be skill challenges, IMO.Scanning some of the encounter areas, I saw a few places that basically said "if the adventurers were clever enough to get to this point without combat, the antagonists are wise to them via some deus ex machina and will fight to the death". That's just unnecessary. Why did the authors feel they had to pull crap like that?</blockquote>