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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2989637" data-attributes="member: 2810">I don't know if I could seperate out style from circumstance.  In 1e, we played largely at lunch with a bunch of schoolmates who didn't really associate outside of school.  That really lent itself to the 'run a module' style of play.  Sometimes players kept characters from module to module, sometimes they dropped one to play something different.   Outside of school, we tended to system hop *a lot*.  A game would stay on the radar for a few months, then we'd get bored or someone would get really psyched about some new system, and we'd start over anew.  In college, we gravitated to something more recognizeable as a 'campaign', but that was because we all lived in the same dorm and could get togther to play more often and for much longer at a sitting.  The environment promoted continuity.  We still system-hopped, but it became easier to run multiple campaigns at once, so that became less disruptive, too.*sniff* Now I'm getting all weepy and nostalgic for the good old days, when we waited with baited breath for the next module release. *sniff*I wonder how much real-time pacing plays into the cookie situation.  If its 13 encounters between 'cookies', the cookies seem more 'fresh' (to stretch a metaphor) if you're gaining them every 2 weeks realtime instead of every 2 months.The system we stuck with longest in junior high/high school was SPI''s old DragonQuest, where XP was awarded per every four hours of play-time.  The game's advancement system left a lot to be desired in retrospect, but it kept the cookies coming at a regular pace without being overly reliant on combat encounters.</blockquote>

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