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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6448485" data-attributes="member: 29398">Too much going on in this thread to fish out individual bits and respond to them, so here's some quick thoughts:While I loves me the 1e DMG, Gygax's advice on time management (quoted somewhere upthread by, I think,  [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] ) verges close to complete garbage; not in his presentation of the need for such management, but on how to achieve it.  The whole idea of every character in the game world advancing in time in lockstep regardless of what else they may be doing just doesn't work in a multi-party campaign - believe me.  Party A may have got to early summer but character B (who left party A last fall) has only been updated to early spring and party C (same game, different players and-or characters) is still finishing their adventure in late winter.  Meanwhile, party D up north got themselves to mid-summer then were put on hold so the rest of the game could catch up (some of those players split out into parties A and C with different characters).  And there's a bunch of loose-end characters who haven't been seen in about 1-2 years of game time who can be updated and brought back into play if their players so desire.(with minor tweaks, the above example is in fact the current status of the campaign I'm currently running)Minor point of contention, but I think significant in this discussion: the player is not introducing these elements!  What she *is* doing is giving them relevance they may not have had before, but that's to be expected.Example: in my current game some of the PCs are reaching stronghold-building level; I-as-DM just take it for granted there's some 5th-level fighters out there with +2 axes and if a stronghold gets built, one will turn up and apply for a job.  If no-one ever builds a stronghold, so be it; the axemen are still out there somewhere, just not relevant.Lan-"the main reason I've never built a stronghold is I'd then be expected to live in it"-efan</blockquote>

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