I'll be finishing my Hell's Rebels campaign somewhere around the start to middle of March and the new GM (for the next campaign, Strange Aeons, at least) has already announced that he wants to begin at the start of May, so I'm looking for a short 2E adventure running for something like 4 to 6 3 hour sessions to tide us over and get a hang of how the new edition plays.
Buying something like the The Fall of Plaguestone seems to run too long, since the reviews say that the whole adventure would take 12 to 15 3-4 hour sessions to complete. I also thought about running the Doomsday Dawn scenarios from the playtest, but as far as reviews of them go, it seems the quality was a bit lacking overall, not to mention that they were written with the playtest rules in mind.
Anybody got good advice what materials there are to run something short in the timespan I described above (4 - 6 sessions, each 3 hour long) and get it to completion? I was thinking about choosing a Pathfinder Society scenario, but I have no experience how long they run or of their quality.
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Seek the society adventures they are shorter maybe not enought to complete in a single sessions but maybe in 2-3 sessions.
How about running each of the one-shots? There are four of them and each are at different levels, so they can give you a decent idea of how the game plays. I've run three of the four and had a blast each time. Fortunately the first one-shot is currently available as part of a Humble Bundle at the $7 tier.
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Troubles in Otari is pretty good. You start at level 2, level from 2 to 3 in session 1 (takes about four hours?) Level from 3-4 in the next two-three sessions . . . last push (4-5) isn't that much longer. Maybe a total of 5, 4-hr sessions.
If that is too much, there are a few pathfinder society scenarios that are two-parters that you could run back-to-back that should take a total of maybe eight hours.
The one-shots are a bit expensive, even if the first one is part of a bundle. So far Troubles in Otari sounds like the best fit overall. Thank you all for the help!
Thanks for the idea, however I think it would be good to see the system working with at least a little bit higher level than the first and starting at level to and go to level four seems to be an ideal way of doing so for me, at the moment. I'll go with Troubles in Otari.