Recent content by prabe

That's why I've found every-other Saturday (and/or Friday) to work really well. People have half their Saturdays (or Fridays) for whatever other things they want to do. I'm also running tables of five and six players, and if one person is out we run their character by committee. I've run on...

I've found fortnightly to work well. Something like, say, "every other Saturday" gives people half their Saturdays to do other things. We don't have many parents, though, and the kids are still really young, so that might change.

I absolutely agree, but I spent years playing with a chronic GM who had ideas fizzing in his brain all the time, and most of the stuff he ran just stopped abruptly with no narrative grace; it's obvious to me that running games as long as I am is a response to that (and I'm still responding that...

I don't particularly disagree. The games I run are both fortnightly, and there's indubitably some sprawl, but I don't see how someone can go 1-20 in like 80 sessions (which in-game often seems to be like a month--a different quibbling point).

At least the poster you were responding to was presuming weekly--not monthly--sessions. Frequency of play will matter in terms of real-world time to get through a campaign.

It'd certainly be an awkward poker hand.

Unrelated to the above: You really are a worst-case scenario, aren't you?

I agree that session count (or play time--I know of at least one group that does one-hour sessions) is the fairer basis for comparison. We probably average 3.5 hours a session, which means we get through a campaign in something like 450 hours of play. There are sometimes long gaps between...

We play every other week, and (after the starting scenario) the PCs level up when they accomplish something. Every advancement feels earned, but there's no pointless bookkeeping (and D&D-style XP, that's nothing but a gauge telling you how close you are to leveling, is pointless bookkeeping)...

I think in English it technically can be, as well, but very rarely is, at least among laymen.

So it looks as though a six-part AP would have ~210,000 words, which is (very approximately) an eight hundred page hardcover novel. Plus whatever other extras (which might bring the novel-equivalent close to a thousand pages, no wonder they typically split up the authorship). Thanks for finding...

There are a novel and a novella as sequels, and I gather they also are good--at least, my wife liked them a good deal. I've read the first book but not the sequels, because reasons.

Out of curiosity, do you have a sense of what the word-count tends to be, like as a range? (That'd make comparisons to novels easier, if still possibly wrong.)

I might differ with you about present-day media and story length: It's really difficult these days to find anything that's not made with the intent that to open up to at least a longer series of things, if not an indefinite series--at least, if you're looking at genre fiction. However prevalent...

I have a friend who's an engineer who detests that word similarly, at least in his professional context.