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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7457752" data-attributes="member: 97077">I don't really think about it. Not that I run campaigns from 1st to 20th most of the time, but if it happened in a year of game time, that's fine. Some really important stuff must be going on for that to happen which means it should be pretty exciting.I don't have a care for how real life works since we're not playing a game based on real life, or at least, only somewhat so. I'm also not bothered by how long Aragorn or Conan knocked about - D&D is its own thing in my view, even if those are influences.My biggest concern is real time when it comes to campaigns, so that's what I focus on. How much content can we pack into a 4-hour weekly session, how many sessions to fully explore this campaign concept, etc. And then I think about what time pressures in-game I can include to create tension and adjust difficulty. The time it takes to level is largely based on player choice - how much they get after that XP.As a point of data in case anyone's interested, my current campaign is on Day 72 since the PCs arrived in Sigil from the prime world they once called home. Most PCs arrived in Sigil at 3rd level and are now 6th level (though some characters and backup characters are lower level). My town-to-dungeon campaign prior to this campaign ran 20 weeks of game time and the characters went from 1st to (at most) 8th level. I have a player pool, meaning I have more players than seats at a given session. And those players usually have more than one character that they will swap out from time to time. This also slows down the rate of advancement relative to the campaign timeline in my eperience as you note in your point E.</blockquote>

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