I've been running the D&D Encounters at my local game store for the past 6 months or so, up to the dramatic conclusion of the Princes of the Apocalypse mini-campaign last Wednesday night. Tonight, we begin the Out of the Abyss adventure, which I expect to go for several months. We've got quite a crowd--three tables of six or so players each--and all of us are starting up Out of the Abyss tonight.

The name is evocative, and actually quite true: at the start, the PCs are all prisoners of the drow and their first task is to contrive an escape. We'll see how they do...