Quickish scenario suggestions?

[Steel Forged Games]

Next week my group is going to be sort of time crunched down to like 3 hours or so. Anyone suggest a scenario that can fit into a crunched down time frame?

[Zrinka Znidarcic]

what tier?

[Paz]

If you search you should find a few threads on this topic. The two I've run several times in short slots are #8: Slave Pits of Absalom, and #13: The Prince of Augustana.

[Zrinka Znidarcic]

"Slave Pits" rely heavily on the group playing - I GMed it under 3.5h but next run went well over 5 and one group did it 7h (another GM)!

So if your players work as a great team, play smart (not try to smash every single thing in their way) - its an excellent choice

[Timothy McNeil]

#23 Tide of Morning can be run rather quickly.

It is not one of my favorites (quite the contrary), but I have had the pleasure of running a great group of players through it. If you aren't adding extra RP moments to it, it can be done in under three hours.

[Chalk Microbe]

Mists of Mwangi

[David H]

Quest for Perfection pt2 (pt1 can be sorta quickish, too).
Penumbral Accords (should play that one after Chalk's suggestion of Mists of Mwangi, though)

[1970Zombie]

Just ran The Sanos Abduction #4-05 for sub-tier 3-4 with 5 PCs. We did it in about 3.5 hours with paperwork.

[Fromper]

Icebound Outpost, Frozen Fingers of Midnight, and First Steps part 3 all come to mind.

[Yiroep]

Related Thread.

[Lab_Rat]

Just did Icebound Outpost. Can definitely go faster depending on the player choices. We wrapped it up in 3 hours 15 min with a table of 3+Pregen at Tier 4-5.

Most of the time a scenario goes faster because the party is setup to take advantage of encounter bypasses written in. The last three times I played with my Bard we bypassed at least 2 encounters per scenario. Why? Because my Bards first choice of action is to say hello and talk. A simple diplomacy check can turn a 45 minute encounter into a 5 minute RP session.

[Fromper]

Lab_Rat wrote:

Just did Icebound Outpost. Can definitely go faster depending on the player choices. We wrapped it up in 3 hours 15 min with a table of 3+Pregen at Tier 4-5.

Most of the time a scenario goes faster because the party is setup to take advantage of encounter bypasses written in. The last three times I played with my Bard we bypassed at least 2 encounters per scenario. Why? Because my Bards first choice of action is to say hello and talk. A simple diplomacy check can turn a 45 minute encounter into a 5 minute RP session.

Yup. I know one scenario where there's only one mandatory fight. There are at least 4 other fights that can be bypassed by being friendly. With a highly sociable party, the whole thing could only take an hour!

[Steel Forged Games]

Thanks guys.