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Running 4e LFR Tonight

September 11, 2009 By

I am running a 4e LFR game tonight at the local game store. The table is booked solid, and the dungeon appears to fun from what I read. I have never played the game, so in the RPGA this would be called eating the module, but since the 4e RPGA modules are very straight forward, it is more like a light meal or maybe a topas compared to 3e RPGA modules.

The best part these days are the high or low options for monster encounters which are both fully stat-ed out separately for a specific range like tonight’s 4-7th level session. No more huge range games like the ones I have seen in 3e, stating they can be run for 2nd level parties all the way up to 14th level parties. In most cases those games were written perfect for 7th level, but killed everyone (TPK) at 2nd and 4th level and just got stupid silly for groups above 7th level, especially for the 12th and 14th level parties. Vampire monk dervishs come to mind… That game went well… Not.

I have everything I need to run the game in, oh, about 36 pages. I make it even lighter by using a battle mat and wet erase pen instead of WotC dungeon tiles which apparently you need if you are writing a module for the RPGA these days. Ouch.

dalelands old 2ed box image

I will be taking the party through a Dalelands adventure that begins in good old Shadowdale. It is called DALE1-4 The Lady In Flames By Brad Gardner.

The image is from my original AD&D FR, The Dalelands boxed set accessory by Richard Baker. I dug it out last night just for kicks.

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Shent_lodge, AKA Jon, started this website, in 2000, initially as a player's guide to his home game. He has run through, and run for hundreds of players of the Dungeons and Dragons game since 1980. These days he mostly plays the Pathfinder RPG at cons.

Comments

  1. Scott says:
    September 11, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    I might be mistaken, but doesn’t the phrase “eating the module” refer to losing the ability to play through it by running it before you’ve taken your own character through the adventure? That policy no longer exists in the RPGA – you can play modules you’ve run, so DMs don’t face that disincentive to run an adventure for the group.

  2. shent_lodge says:
    September 11, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    @Scott, You are right that is another reason eating a 4e RPGA adventure is a “light meal”, because I can play the module later even if I DM’d it. I forgot to mention that. Not enough coffee in the system…