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<blockquote data-quote="Fellentos" data-source="post: 7283869" data-attributes="member: 6921414"><p>Hey guys,</p><p></p><p>I'm going to start my first DM'ing in 5e for 3 friends in a few weeks. I've seen a lot of youtubes about DMing and 5e D&D but I'm still confused how to go about the game session lengths and how many sessions will be needed to finish a custom campaign from Level 1 to 20.</p><p></p><p>So the plan is that the campaign will be at least to level 15, possibly to level 20, with 3 PC characters.</p><p></p><p>The first session will be a session 0, where I will interview the players if they like combat, roleplaying etc. Try to get a feel of the amount of combat, exploration and social stuff.</p><p></p><p>However this gaming group has a tendency to get burned out with a game (we played Magic The Gathering for a few years, but that has pretty much stopped). Furthermore we can only play 10 sessions a year maximum to do this. Each session can take 4 hours max.</p><p></p><p>So I'm concerned that doing this campaign in the recommended leveling pace (->Level 2: 1 session, ->Level 3: 1 session, ->Levels 3-20: 3 sessions) will take me between 3 and 4 years... This will almost guarantee that we won't make it till the end of the campaign before we quit.</p><p></p><p>However I find the idea of doing a lvl 1-5 campaign a bit disappointing in scope, especially for player progression and the stuff you don't get to do.</p><p></p><p>Any suggestions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fellentos, post: 7283869, member: 6921414"] Hey guys, I'm going to start my first DM'ing in 5e for 3 friends in a few weeks. I've seen a lot of youtubes about DMing and 5e D&D but I'm still confused how to go about the game session lengths and how many sessions will be needed to finish a custom campaign from Level 1 to 20. So the plan is that the campaign will be at least to level 15, possibly to level 20, with 3 PC characters. The first session will be a session 0, where I will interview the players if they like combat, roleplaying etc. Try to get a feel of the amount of combat, exploration and social stuff. However this gaming group has a tendency to get burned out with a game (we played Magic The Gathering for a few years, but that has pretty much stopped). Furthermore we can only play 10 sessions a year maximum to do this. Each session can take 4 hours max. So I'm concerned that doing this campaign in the recommended leveling pace (->Level 2: 1 session, ->Level 3: 1 session, ->Levels 3-20: 3 sessions) will take me between 3 and 4 years... This will almost guarantee that we won't make it till the end of the campaign before we quit. However I find the idea of doing a lvl 1-5 campaign a bit disappointing in scope, especially for player progression and the stuff you don't get to do. Any suggestions? [/QUOTE]
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