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I ran a dungeon delve again last night. TL;D[click through], each of these delves consist of three, 4rh Edition D&D combat encounters with not much backstory, and no role-play or skill challenges. Each delve is based on a classic 1st Edition D&D adventure, so the backstory is built in for old guys like me. Between both sessions, I learned something. These delves are fine as is for a convention competition, but I’m not running them as a convention competition. Nowadays, I’m running them just to have a good time, so I need to rewrite the encounters as if they’re for an ordinary campaign.

In addition, I decided that for my rewrites, instead of making them easy, medium, hard, and impossible (again, it’s not a competition), I’ll instead write them each at different levels, accommodating players that want to play at different levels. In no event am I going to make any of these higher than low paragon, so the nine delves will run from 2nd level to no higher than 13th level. When all is said and done, I’ll probably have only two that are in paragon tier. I don’t want them to play too slowly. The only downside is that I probably won’t have pregens available, but it seems like most people want to create their own characters anyway. Maybe I’ll create just a couple of pregens to adapt if someone jumps in at the last second, but for the most part, I’ll leave it to the players.

If you’re interested in playing them, I have a thread on the “D&D 4e” Discord server where I organize them. You can also just contact me through this blog. I use MS Teams to connect to everyone, using the screen sharing feature to provide the battle map via Masterplan. There are still some minor kinks to work out with that set up — I’m not fond of online play — but it does the job. I need to make this technical solution work to accommodate a player in my home game that’s moved from the good Washington (DC) to the bad Washington (state).

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