Comments on: 4e Extreme Basic or 4e Very Fast Play

By: kaeosdad

kaeosdad — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:24:57 +0000

Interesting idea! My brother in law has become interested in playing so I may set up a one shot using the monster manual. Thanks for the post.

By: shent_lodge

shent_lodge — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:42:14 +0000

Hah! My wife just pointed out she calls the method 4e extreme fast play not 4e Extreme Basic Play. Heh errata already, I should work for WotC.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:35:58 +0000

I think that’s a great idea, and one I will be using. Even for experienced players, if a couple people can’t show up for the regular session, this could be a fun one shot.

By: Kirin

Kirin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:27:02 +0000

This is similar to a one-shot idea I had that I wanted to run for my group, where we could take a break from the regular campaign and put 4e through its paces with both high-level gaming and experiment roleplaying some evil characters.

The trick was that running a high-level pre-generated character is pretty tricky even for an experienced player, so turning to the MM seemed like an obvious solution: I threw together an Underdarkish plot about the local portal to the Shadowfell being taken over by nothingness and the PCs were a “confederacy of villains” gathered together to try to solve the problem.

So there was your typical Drow priestess, an assassin, an undead death knight, an Illithid wizard, etc.

Sadly I never got to run it – the scheduled session ended up being much shorter, but it’s still sitting on the back-burner.