I'm starting up a new campaign, with rank 1 characters. To get warmed up I considered running the adventure from the Game Master's kit as a starter, before going onto something else.

I read through it yesterday, and was struck but the fact that up until the final showdown, the resistance is weak and trivial, and then all of a sudden the PCs run into up to 3 extremely hard opponents, possibly all at once.

Has anyone GM'd this adventure with rank one characters, and what was the outcome, if you played it as written?

I mean, how are rank one characters supposed to be able to kill something that has a load of wounds, soaks up to 13 and regenerates? Full auto is the answer to everything, I suppose, but most characters would hardly be able to inflict a single wound without getting a righteous fury off.

What I've considered is either having one creature with original stats, or possibly more, but without unnatural toughness and/or regenerate.

I'm not very experienced as a GM, and as such I'm having trouble gauging the difficulty of an opponent or group of opponents from a glance at the stats, but this just seems very hard.

Any input is appreciated, thanks in advance!

WARNINGNG! SPOIL-O-RAMA!!!!


For heavens sake, do not use MitM as the starting adventure for a fresh group of Rank 1 characters!

MitM is by no means a good adventure and surly not a good adventure for a Rank 1 group. It has a fine location, but the mission...well.

If you want to start out fresh with a group, I suggest to have a look at the DH support section of FFG webiste.

Consider "Edge of Darkness" or the old contest winners "Idle Heresy"

If you take a look over at DarkReign40k.com you will find an adventure called "Bunker DS209". I am not sure about the NUMBERCODE, but it is "Bunker (something)". Be warned so that "Bunker" is less about investigation and rather short, so.


EDIT: If you insist on running this adventure I would suggest to exchange the slaught for a human cannibal cult, properbly slighty mutated.
The "pets" could instead be mutated Cult Members that mutated into...something different. The Cult strifes to to reach this stage by eating human flesh and praising "the Lord of the Feast" (some kind of Chaos Worship).

Smeat & Smoot are thereby Cult Members themselves. The devolved Cult-Members kill people while Smeet & Smoot gather the corpses & bring them to the lair of the Cult (the Windmill). Up till recently, the Cult was largely made up of non-devolved members and was thereby able to feet off "natural corpses". Now, many more of them have reached ad devolved stage where they are only able to sustain themselves on rotten flesh alone.

But please...take one of the other scenarios!

Thanks for the feedback.

I should mention that thought I'm not a very experienced GM, we are a quite experienced group of people, most with between 15 and 20+ years of RPG experience, so even though it's a "new group", the players are quite experienced, and have at least a working knowledge of the 40k universe.

I noticed that the adventure isn't quite thought through, or even very good, so it might indeed be bad to start off with, since my players will likely not find it too interesting or challenging.

I was just looking for something fast to start off with, that'd take maybe one or two sessions to play.

I'll check out the adventures you mentioned, and see how I feel about those.

If I do decide to play MitM, I'll probably follow your suggestions and change it around to some cult, since that would be much more in line with the rest of the setting, rather than having rabid over-powerful aliens running things. Or just use the setting/location and make a completely different plot.

Hi!

for an experience group, do not use the "Bunker"-scenario. It is nice, but very simple and more akin to AD&D.

"Idle Heresy" and "Edge of Darkness" are more investigation heavy with "Edge of Darkness" the uncrowend FFG-Forum favorite. Whenever anyone starts the hobby and asks "what adventure to start with?" s/he will be reassured that EoD is the freebee to go for.

Have fun!