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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8529612" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>We have two 3.5 campaigns going on right now and they're slightly different as far as structure goes.</p><p></p><p>The campaign I DM for meets on Saturdays from noon until 5-6 PM. As such, I write out the adventure ahead of time as if it were being submitted to <em>Dungeon</em> magazine, with boxed test, room descriptions, etc. - it's the format I've gotten used to. Each gaming session I bring the adventure the PCs will be going through and the campaign is rather like a short story collection, where the same PCs are in each story but each is fairly standalone. (Sometimes a plot point from one adventure will build off a previous adventure.) However, there's an on-going overall plot wherein the PCs are traveling the continent rescuing people who have gotten "trapped" in their dreams and they're slowly finding out who's behind it, although they have yet to discover why. </p><p></p><p>The campaign my grown son DMs is much more like an ongoing novel, with each game session - much shorter, as we play on Wednesdays from 6:30-9:00 PM (two of our players are still in high school) - more in the form of the next chapter. Since the sessions are so much shorter, he just jots down the relevant info he needs in a notebook and wings the adventure from there. Also, the shorter adventures allows him to design the next adventure in the week before we run through it, so he "pivots" much faster than I do (as I write mine out months in advance, given there's a lot more prep work for mine).</p><p></p><p>Both of our DMing styles have been formed to fit the schedule in which we run our sessions. I dare say if we swapped which campaign runs for 5-6 hours on every other Saturday and which one runs weekly for 2-3 hours on Wednesday nights, we'd each start running the campaign in the manner the other one has been doing.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8529612, member: 508"] We have two 3.5 campaigns going on right now and they're slightly different as far as structure goes. The campaign I DM for meets on Saturdays from noon until 5-6 PM. As such, I write out the adventure ahead of time as if it were being submitted to [i]Dungeon[/i] magazine, with boxed test, room descriptions, etc. - it's the format I've gotten used to. Each gaming session I bring the adventure the PCs will be going through and the campaign is rather like a short story collection, where the same PCs are in each story but each is fairly standalone. (Sometimes a plot point from one adventure will build off a previous adventure.) However, there's an on-going overall plot wherein the PCs are traveling the continent rescuing people who have gotten "trapped" in their dreams and they're slowly finding out who's behind it, although they have yet to discover why. The campaign my grown son DMs is much more like an ongoing novel, with each game session - much shorter, as we play on Wednesdays from 6:30-9:00 PM (two of our players are still in high school) - more in the form of the next chapter. Since the sessions are so much shorter, he just jots down the relevant info he needs in a notebook and wings the adventure from there. Also, the shorter adventures allows him to design the next adventure in the week before we run through it, so he "pivots" much faster than I do (as I write mine out months in advance, given there's a lot more prep work for mine). Both of our DMing styles have been formed to fit the schedule in which we run our sessions. I dare say if we swapped which campaign runs for 5-6 hours on every other Saturday and which one runs weekly for 2-3 hours on Wednesday nights, we'd each start running the campaign in the manner the other one has been doing. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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