So you need to be ready to work through the math for the brand new players the program is designed to support.

One of the frustrations is that the character sheets are all “wrong”, since they’re built around the PCs with their equipment. That difference from settled expectations can make it great for a home group, but it’s a challenge for organized play. It will make for impressive stories… but it’s a different story than traditional D&D. You’re not a normal first level character who can take on goblins and orcs in a fair fight, you’re a first level character without equipment or freedom. For experienced players, this provides an exciting additional challenge. They’re manacled and shackled, stripped down to underclothes. The characters begin imprisoned by the drow. Unfortunately, this season the characters are better fitted for the weekend Expedition play–they’re from the Hillsfar region and fit its plots. Some characters were released for the whole Rage of Demons season. It’s a casual after work campaign at the game store, explicitly run on a drop in basis.īecause new players are so common, it’s good to have some pregenerated characters available to pick from. In both 4th and 5th edition, the adventures run on Wednesdays, with short sessions of about two hours the norm. The Programĭ&D Encounters is set up as an always low level, easy to join and try out D&D game. It turns out that this adventure breaks new GMs… largely because the beginning subverts so many D&D tropes.įair warning: spoilers for the first session abound in this post. The first three seasons of D&D Encounters took a published product–in this case Out of the Abyss–and separated the first few chapters to run as an introductory adventure. The third D&D encounter season features Out of the Abyss, the newest hardback adventure for D&D.

Out of the abyss no survival