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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grraf" data-source="post: 255600" data-attributes="member: 3791">campaign lengththe campaign length number was developed by wotc. They went out and figured out how long the average campaign lasted. according to market data it was a year and a half. They wanted the core books to cover a full campaign levels 1-20 so they worked it out like that.The current advancement system is tough on reality. (OK so I don't really worry about CR when I create challenges) but my PCs are getting almost a level a week in game time. Definitely slow advancement but I wouldn't nessessarily worry about decreasing magic items. I realize this is probably a peculiar opinion but PCs have lots of magic items isn't really a problem IMHO. You make the magic items up yourself as DM so just give them things that won't break your game. Especially since (running by the book) Identify doesn't tell you much about the item they can be wandering around with an atomic staff of blasting thinking that it gives +1 to AC and that's it.Players love getting cool gear. Give it to them. Then attach penalties to it. Then make other people covet it (especially good in an OA game IMHO you can do so much with Obligation and responcibility). eventually they figure out how about half of the things work and they they get themselves neck deep in trouble and wind up losing most of it anyway. (I run a Scarred Lands game).Just my two cents.</blockquote>