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<blockquote data-quote="Jesse Decker" data-source="post: 211553" data-attributes="member: 742">One of the games that I play in, Andy Collins' &quot;Bloodlines&quot; campaign, had a similar feel when it first started out. The characters were all young, from the same village, and very inexperienced. He used a couple of simple techniques to help preserve the small-town feel for awhile. We started below 1st level, we advanced relatively slowly (reduced xp awards), and the &quot;adventures&quot; started on a really small scale. Those things all helped, but the campaign really kept its feel because the adventurers dealt with problems that really would plague a small town from time to time, and dealing with those problems led the group into a wider world in a really natural progression.Another important element involved keeping careful track of time passing -- we often went months (of game time) between adventures in the early days of the campaign. After one fairly successful adventure, we took the winter off, spending several months just &quot;living in the big city&quot; for a while.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jesse Decker, post: 211553, member: 742"] One of the games that I play in, Andy Collins' "Bloodlines" campaign, had a similar feel when it first started out. The characters were all young, from the same village, and very inexperienced. He used a couple of simple techniques to help preserve the small-town feel for awhile. We started below 1st level, we advanced relatively slowly (reduced xp awards), and the "adventures" started on a really small scale. Those things all helped, but the campaign really kept its feel because the adventurers dealt with problems that really would plague a small town from time to time, and dealing with those problems led the group into a wider world in a really natural progression. Another important element involved keeping careful track of time passing -- we often went months (of game time) between adventures in the early days of the campaign. After one fairly successful adventure, we took the winter off, spending several months just "living in the big city" for a while. [/QUOTE]

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