Thank you!

Thank you! I hope you love the new edition.

I hadn't heard about this, but I just looked it up and that definitely seems to be the intention of their release schedule. Cool! Thanks for pointing that out.

@@danwells9305 No problem. My hard copy of Enemy in Shadows and the companion arrived this morning. Very exciting.

@@garethpugh9743 I got mine last week :) Just aching to run it for someone now.

@@danwells9305 yes, same here. Also looking forward to the pre-order of "Death on the Reik", which should be available very soon, that will be intriguing as to how much it's been expanded and the added Grognards.

The Great Pendragon Campaign, The Enemy Within, and then either Ravenloft/Curse of Strahd or Mask of Nyarlathotep

That depends heavily on your group's style and pace. If I were to run the game with my friends, the first two books would easily last long enough to hit the third book's release. And I don't think we're slow. I guess what I'm saying is: there's tons of content here, but I'm not discounting the idea that a group focused purely on racing from combat to combat might burn through it really fast.

I don`t know about the 4E but I`ve run the campaign twice with 1E. I wouldn`t recommend not having at least one or two characters with a little bit of muscle. First time I ran it the group lost three of the six characters in the climax of the Bogenhafen scenario. They were able to replace with new characters a short way down the line but still. A balance of different types of characters is usually best.

The short answer is "they wanted to play together," which is why we play these games in the first place, so it never occurred to any of them to just ditch the rest of the players and do their own thing. But I recognize that some players don't see it that way, so both times I've run the campaign I've been sure to a) establish that all the PCs stand to benefit, and b) choose the meekest, most selfless player as the doppelganger who gets the inheritance.

If you have a group of murder hobos, you may need to focus on giving your characters/players more drive thru developing back story. If they are not that into developing a character, you as a GM should set up 5 goals for each player (small goals) to accomplish in the session, specific to their job/role in the group. If you have a do-gooder have a goal be that they give a coin to a beggar, or craft a small toy for a child, if you have the rogue/theif type player, have them attempt to steal something FOR the group (this will help invest them into the group), do something like that