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For those not familiar with this event, it's a new idea from Wizards to promote D&D to new and veteran players. Over the course of 12 weeks groups will meet to tackle a single encounter of a 12 part dungeon. A good number of game stores in most areas probably have a game or two going, and it's not too late to sign up.
For anyone who has found a group running this weekly event, this is the thread to post thoughts and summaries.

While checking through pics for inspiration for the character I needed to roll up I came across a pic of a robotic man in a cape carrying a huge axe. From that I made a Warforged Barbarian, and let me just say that if anyone tells you Barbarians are a little overpowered... you believe them.

Most of my defenses are incredibly low. My AC is 15, Fort is 16, Ref is 11 and Will is 10. I guess this helps balance out the insane damage that I can dish out.

The encounter was a back alley brawl with a 20 foot deep sewage ditch through the middle and a bridge spanning it. While my associates attempted to cross the 5 foot wide bridge, I tried to jump the 20 feet across. I landed short, took 12 points of damage, and used a second move action to climb the stairs back up to the villains. In the following round I one shot (tore in half)a thug when I crit using an at-will. Villains decide I need to die... quickly... and I'm hit by the warlock's ongoing fire damage blasts. Plus two unseen henchman enter the ally and attack me from behind, one even crits me. I pop my warforged resolve ability (bonus HP), get a heal from the cleric, and turn around and use my daily on the guy who crit me. Didn't crit, but it was still 30+ damage (I got to reroll a 1 due to my weapon's Brutal 2 keyword) which split him down the middle.

Suddenly the warlock and the other living thug want to give up. I'm unaligned so I knock off the other thug's head and intimidate the piss out of the Warlock (litterally). When we're finished I threaten her again, and toss her into the sewage ditch.

Paid a squire to hose me down with hot water, and got some money and passes into Undermountain to tackle our next encounter.

That Shawnacy... He's one bad ass mutha.

I missed the one that was this week because of people being sick, but I'm going to take my 8 year old son with me next week. He really wants to learn DnD and these short 1 encounter nights are great for him to learn without getting bored. I'm making a minotaur barbarian/ranger, which will definately be OP. (I can't bring myself to make a female minotaur cause that feels soooo wrong, so it'll be my first "transgender" DnD char. )

Dei said:

I missed the one that was this week because of people being sick, but I'm going to take my 8 year old son with me next week. He really wants to learn DnD and these short 1 encounter nights are great for him to learn without getting bored. I'm making a minotaur barbarian/ranger, which will definately be OP. (I can't bring myself to make a female minotaur cause that feels soooo wrong, so it'll be my first "transgender" DnD char. )

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Why not a female minotaur? You'd never need to pack rations with all that milk!

Dei said:

I missed the one that was this week because of people being sick, but I'm going to take my 8 year old son with me next week. He really wants to learn DnD and these short 1 encounter nights are great for him to learn without getting bored. I'm making a minotaur barbarian/ranger, which will definately be OP. (I can't bring myself to make a female minotaur cause that feels soooo wrong, so it'll be my first "transgender" DnD char. )

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I thought Minotaurs were just human bodies with bull heads. I suppose you wouldn't look much different from a female Tauren in WoW.

Basically the impression I got from slumming around the DnD forums was that female minotaurs being out and about is kind of a special case.

Sure.
But what are player characters if not special cases?

And besides, forums are where terrible people go to meet. Why listen to terrible people?

Technically, anyone going out to become an adventurer is a rare event. But there isn't a whole lot of excitement playing a Commoner.

Good game this week, though very short. Some kind of magical trap that required a diverse group of adventurers to open. Arcana/Religion/Thievery/Endurance checks. Then a short combat that didn't really take us long at all.
We had a celebrity player with us this week. Actor who played the DM in Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising is playing with us now. Nice little brush with appropriate fame there.