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Mar 15, 2012 -- 10:02AM, iserith wrote:

Mar 15, 2012 -- 9:59AM, mvincent wrote:

you might want to skip ahead in order to give them higher level encounters.

Agreed. Make the PCs feel epic by not doing all the unfun business of killing enemies that are no threat to them. (Unless they just like mopping the floor with things. I can understand that urge.)

Either come up with a fast way to adjudicate a victory with or without cost or just narrate it. Roll the dice only when there's a chance of failure...

To clarify: I meant skip ahead to the later (higher level) adventures, completely bypassing an adventure (or two) if needed... completing the series long before the PC's reach 30th level. But abbreviating encounters could work too, provided you don't give out XP or treasure.

Nice cake. 

Visit the LFR forums for some player and DM views on the EPIC adventures. I've DMed the first one, and I have to say, it was pretty good. My party was pretty optimized, and some encounters were blowovers, but there's enough challenge there that you don't explicitly need to change the monsters' stats. 

That said, make sure that
1 - you diversify the puzzle encounters.
2- the players know that they'll be playing a LOT of combat encounters for an entire day (so you don't create the wrong expectations). 

If you want to throw your players' backstories in the mix, maybe read up on the story in the first 3 adventures. If they have ties to Vecna and the Raven Queen, perhaps you can switch another god in the story for one of them. The first adventure doesn't make a mention of either.