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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 8509891" data-attributes="member: 25619"><p>My unusualness:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Long campaign - me too.  Always many year, but</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I don’t play 5e except if someone else is running it. 3.5e for me.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I convert materials from other editions all the time.  Running 1e module for one party, 3e stuff for another.  I’ve converted from Basic, 1e, 2e, 3e, 5e, and PF1.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Restricted races - me too.  Because I play Core rules.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I don’t encourage multiclassing and most of my players don’t do it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Yup, I don’t have a predetermined plot either.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I don’t like high levels.  I prefer low levels and I’m OK to about 10th.  I get annoyed by high powered modules as they are usually Supers stories.  There are a few good ones, though.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Balance.  I care less than you do.  I have a party with 2nd-10th level together.  New players don’t come in at the same level as the party - they take over an NPC of their choice or build a character at a lower level if the player has the skill.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Encounter design is about what makes sense, not balance or skills or scene building for me too.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I’m a Greyhawk fanatic.  I’m currently.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I use Excel for the minimat and Zoom, not tabletop program, for my “live“ campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I use Excel and Word for my email campaign.  I play on email.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Resource management - even weight and dropping your pack to go fast - is a core part of my game as well.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">One of my players became a lord and is building his steading and detailing people and buildings.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Large parties.  7 players on Zoom campaign, 7 players in email campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Slow prep.  The game played on Zoom on Saturday, I’d been working on since July.  (It’ll last us months.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I don’t play 4 hours per week.  Zoom game is more like 8 times a year.  Email is all the time and hard to translate to equivalent butts-in-seat time.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> I recruit new players.  In Zoom, 6 of 7 players never played D&D before (the 7th was at GenCon’s in when it was at Parkside, pre Milwaukee, so complete expert).  On email, 2 players have only ever been DM’d by me, and 3 more hadn’t played since 1e or 2e was in print.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>

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