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Dungeon Delve

Just ran my most current installment of the "Shadows Over Khorvaire", and being hard pressed for time, I grabbed a complete "encounter" from the recently published "Dungeon Delve" as a filler for my usually planned out game encounters.  I have to say, I was a bit hesitant at first, but the players genuinely enjoyed the encounters and the feel of the encounters.

The format for each chapter in the book consists of a series of encounters for a given level.  In my case, I used the "Orken Stronghold" from the book.  Prep time for the session was easy, with stats and tactics provided for each encounter.  I had already worked on a treasure allotment for the party, so I simply replaced the included treasure with my "parcels".  One of the great things that dawned on me over the course of play is how badly I had been pacing combat and encounters.  This book was a real eye-opener for how to properly scale out a series of adventures.  I'm going back to the drawing board with my adventures and encounters and plotting them out using this book as a guideline.

There are some seriously wicked encounters in the book, and even the offer for how to expand them out in to full-blown "adventures" rather than just a packaged, yet random encounter.  I'm genuinely pleased with this and would recommend it greatly to the time-pressed GM out there.