So, it didn't quite go as planned. While I thought I had clever plans for use of skill challenges in the negotiations with Vardigas and Lady Caer, it didn't work out as well as I would have liked.
The missing piece, I think, was that I didn't make it clear that this is a skill challenge and here are your goals. I actually had laid out specific skills, DCs and results for success or failure. What I didn't have was a good way to convey that information to the players without just flatly stating, "You should make a diplomacy check to try to win the Lady Caer's favor and trust and she will tell you more." I'll work on that in the future.
Overall, I'm pleased with the progress we made. We played for a bit under four hours and we got through one combat encounter and three skill challenges and a farily good amount of role-play, introduction and information gathering.
The combat dragged a bit longer that I would have preferred, and for some reason seemed like it was just "tacked on" to the adventure, while it was in fact planned and has a purpose greater than just letting everyone roll dice and do damage. The combat was 900 xp, which is 150% of the xp for a normal encounter of six 1st level characters, but since I knew it was the only combat of the day, I wasn't worried about that.
Anyhow, so far, so good, or at least ok. Stay tuned for more recap of the first session.
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