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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5739200" data-attributes="member: 92305">We started at age 11 for the first game session. Game #2 skipped a year, seeing the characters at age 12. Then, we did several game sessions as the PCs aged from 13 to 15 or so. The idea was to run the first story arc of the campaign with the PCs as children, giving the players a base to grow from. They know their parents (or, who raised them), their immediate family, their village, their customs, and all that. The goal of the first story is to tell how the PCs became men. We're getting close to the climax of that first story arc now. In a session or two, I'll skip the game ahead again a few years. The PCs will be in their teens. Young men. Maybe 18 years old (I haven't decided exactly how old yet). And, we'll play another story arc. The campaign was designed from the beginning to be long term and to have story arcs like this that peek in on the PCs during different parts of their lives. If all goes well, we'll end the campaign once the PCs are old men. I wanted the campaign to mirror the collection of Conan stories. You read a short story about Conan, and he's young, running around with the Aesir and chasing the Frost Giant's Daughter. In the next story, he's a bit older, new to civilization, attempting to be a thief in a city of thieves, climbing up the Elephant's Tower. Later, he's a mercenary. Then, he becomes the head of an outlaw band. Then, he's a pirate. Then he's on the Pictish frontier. Finally, he's a king.  In each story, he's an older character. That's how I'm running this game. We play a story-arc--really, it's a mini-campaign--and we skip time a year or more and catch up with the PCs when they're older. With each game session, we're living through the most important events in the characters' lives. So far, I'm very pleased with the results.</blockquote>

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