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<blockquote data-quote="glass" data-source="post: 8988062" data-attributes="member: 12251"><p>Having spend the previous five chapters of <em>Shattered Star</em> gathering the pieces of the eponymous artifact, we witnessed its assembly at the start of chapter 6. To the complete surprise of some of the characters but exactly none of the players, its assembly lead to the proverbial hitting the fan.</p><p></p><p>Thursday's session also marked the last session of our current system of rotation. We have three-four campaigns on the go on a Thursday evening, one or two for each of the two combinations of players. We would alternate between the groups on a fortnightly basis, and by chapter within each group. Two weeks did not really allow a lot of time for us to get back into each campaign before we pivoted again, but it was a necessary compromise to prevent the players who were not involved in some of the campaigns sitting out for too long (we had tried weekly, but that was even worse).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, one of those players dropped out, so we invited the other join us in the campaigns they were not already playing, allowing us to simplify the rotation. We thought about rotating by chapter, but that is quite a long time before circling back, and some chapters are potentially longer than others.</p><p></p><p>So what we agreed to do was alternate by character level. Long enough to really get into each campaign, not so long that we've forgotten everything by the time we rotate back. Well, hopefully. We will see how it works out in practice!</p><p></p><p></p><p>The GM had warned that there was basically one (fairly elabourate) encounter left to finish the chapter of <em>Savage Tide</em>, and after that we were due to rotate to the other campaign in that slot: <em>Path of Ashardalon</em>. We had talked about rotating in mid session (and in fact got as far as hopping from one Discord server to the other), but one of the players' sons was sitting with him waiting for him to finish so he tapped out at that point. Leaving the session at one hour and fifteen minutes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="glass, post: 8988062, member: 12251"] Having spend the previous five chapters of [I]Shattered Star[/I] gathering the pieces of the eponymous artifact, we witnessed its assembly at the start of chapter 6. To the complete surprise of some of the characters but exactly none of the players, its assembly lead to the proverbial hitting the fan. Thursday's session also marked the last session of our current system of rotation. We have three-four campaigns on the go on a Thursday evening, one or two for each of the two combinations of players. We would alternate between the groups on a fortnightly basis, and by chapter within each group. Two weeks did not really allow a lot of time for us to get back into each campaign before we pivoted again, but it was a necessary compromise to prevent the players who were not involved in some of the campaigns sitting out for too long (we had tried weekly, but that was even worse). Anyway, one of those players dropped out, so we invited the other join us in the campaigns they were not already playing, allowing us to simplify the rotation. We thought about rotating by chapter, but that is quite a long time before circling back, and some chapters are potentially longer than others. So what we agreed to do was alternate by character level. Long enough to really get into each campaign, not so long that we've forgotten everything by the time we rotate back. Well, hopefully. We will see how it works out in practice! The GM had warned that there was basically one (fairly elabourate) encounter left to finish the chapter of [I]Savage Tide[/I], and after that we were due to rotate to the other campaign in that slot: [I]Path of Ashardalon[/I]. We had talked about rotating in mid session (and in fact got as far as hopping from one Discord server to the other), but one of the players' sons was sitting with him waiting for him to finish so he tapped out at that point. Leaving the session at one hour and fifteen minutes. [/QUOTE]
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