The shaman preview is up, if you have a DDI subscription you can find it under the Dragon link as normal for this kind of thing, if you don’t have a DDI subscription there’s no point in giving you a link just to end up with a “Say why don’t you be a sport and sign up now! You’ll get loads of great things!” web page.
All in all I’m much more favorably impressed with the shaman than the sorcerer. The shaman appeals to me, the sorcerer just seems convulated. I know there was a sorcerer in 3.x Does that mean we HAVE to have one in 4.x? We went years without anything more than a wizard in 0,1, and 2 and we seemed to manage.
And no that’s not old skool hate, I’m enjoying 4.0 more than perhaps any version prior (OMG more than 3.x), I just find the sorcerer… unlikeable. 
I was made aware of that the orcish encounter I posted refers to Dead Goblin Walking which is another scenario I was doing and I ended up copying the module file to use to build the other one without changing the name. Ah well, such is life. DGW is more of a mass encounter where a small townlette had captured some goblins and was going to hang’em high. Well the goblins didn’t like that idea and they hired some big boys, a couple of ogre skirmishers to help them take the town and rescue their fellows. And that’s just about enough of that.
In terms of the current little encounter series I have something planned that involves the party having to coordinate a fight using a skill challenge or two as well as mixing it up in the middle of the thing. Could be interesting.
