1. The campaign you'll be running will be at least 60 sessions long, more if you wish.
2. It's a fantasy campaign but the subgenre is whatever you want it to be. Heroic, grim-dark, military, whatever.
3. Can be any rpg system since the beginning of the hobby, out of print or currently published and you and your players have access to the materials.
4. Putting aside character death and character retirement in the course of playing, the intention is to run with the same characters for the entire campaign.
5. You have adequate time to read rules and prepare. Miraculous, i know... but for this hypothetical, you don't need to worry about that. You have the time.
6. Also don't worry about getting players - let's say you have them and they want to play and will learn the game if they don't already know it.
7. Let's say there's good online VTT support for whatever system you choose. I know, not realistic, but it's not a factor you need to consider if you would run this online.
1. Hmm. I'm preparing for a semi-monthly campaign. If it hits 60 sessions, that's, what, two and a half years? Is the idea that too much play exhausts a game's options, so players might get bored without a cool, new thing to which to level up? My cleric never did learn Miracle . . .
2. Now we're talking. Grimdark, FTW!
3. That's a lot. I'll have to do some filtering.
4. Well, I guess a Song of Ice and Fire is out. Unless you worship R'hllor.
5. I wouldn't run a game without knowing the rules. PCs can show up with limited knowledge. GMs shouldn't.
6. This is more miraculous than #5.
7. This point strikes me as being at odds with #6. Every VTT provides for die rolls, maps, and character tokens. It's processing the rules and presenting clickable options that constitutes "support." But you don't need that support if your players know/learn the game.
My pleasure! I think I have a game in mind . . .
I came into the hobby via AD&D 2E, and so that nostalgia is always there for me. Not sure if I'd want to go back and play, though, as my grown adult brain can only handle the rules-light stuff these days.
Sounds familiar. I have to wonder if it was so interesting because it was the first and only RPG I had read. After reading about several other games, the exceptions and table-referencing seem a bit tedious. I could play in a chunky-rules game as long as the GM held my hand along the way. But I'd much rather get into the cinematic aspect of my scene or battle than what rules-hoops I have to jump through.
I'll use Modos RPG for my semi-monthly, and see if it goes to 60 sessions. There's not an issue with game content because it encourages creating new material and makes it easy. There's no "your character dies" rule. And Roll20 surprisingly feels like it was designed for the game, although 1) spells are not drag-and-drop-and-click, and 2) I'll be playing in person since actual dice and people are better than screens and microphones.
