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Apr 23, 2012 -- 6:54AM, Guest617033263 wrote:

We are preparing to run Spec 4-1 and 4-2 at ComicPalooza next month in Houston. Would appreciate help on two items:

1- There are hints about the last encounter (9th for Spec 4-1 and 5th for Spec 4-2) being a shared encounter for the Heroic and Paragon if we run them together (which we will do twice at ComicPalooza). But there is no actual mechanics other than send half of each table to the other, which makes no sense without an adjustment (You get a Heroic table with half Paragon characters who can overpower everything and a Paragon table that is underpower as half the table will be unable to hit anything).

I've run these two together twice. We didn't split things up either time, but instead we used an alternate improvisation, as per Global direction. Basically, the idea was to let the table that finished first assist the other table in a gridless way: the DM from the assisting table would roughly gauge movement and attacks, including opportunity attacks and puzzle solving, and hand the results over to the primary DM once per round.

In practice, both tables finished simultaneously the first time. The only real meaningful interaction involved the other parts of the module. The second time, we had one paragon table and two heroic tables, with the second heroic table joining at the last minute. I didn't want to spoil things for the second heroic table, particularly since we had to drain two people off the other tables to make it legal, so I let all three tables interact in the final encounter (plus some other things, mentioned in the spoiler block below). This had a net positive effect, with lots of interaction, but that ended up mostly between the two heroic tables. The paragon table was slow but otherwise handling their business, so the heroic table that finished early helped the other heroic table that was struggling.

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I do want to say that all tables for whom I have run this have enjoyed it immensely. I've also participated in an event where ADCP2-2 (all tables at the same level band) was run interactively. These experiences are a little like a miniature BI. They are in some ways superior, since interactions between tables are much more intimate than what we get at a BI. I think this is a great thing and it's something that's hard to do outside of organized play. I sincerely hope more effort is put in to this kind of thing in the future since it's a real strength of organized play and LFR.

Apr 23, 2012 -- 6:54AM, Guest617033263 wrote:

2- One of the rewards is that players can join the Cerulean Sign, but there is no rules for them as a Meta org even though the adventure refers you there....

Any help is appreciated

We are still waiting on a real release of the meta-org rules. We have been relying on the draft rules for almost a year. Hopefully something will be forthcoming soon, but we have been waiting quite a while.

(A) is the intent.