Musing of an Epic Virgin

[Jack99]

Great Thread, have really enjoyed reading it. I wanted to ask, I know that you give an hourly breakdown of how long the campaign took but I'm curious how long this campaign stretched out. From what I gather, you guys seem to meet once a week with a few cancellations. Just curious how long it took for you guys to go from 1-22.


And hearing about your 30 min to 1 hour combats makes me salivate, it takes us around +2 hours to get through a battle. Part of this is due to only having a 3 person party but your 20 second rule and monster hp reduction sounds golden.

Yes, we meet once a week, play for about 5 hours. Once a year, we go away for the better part of a weekend, during which we get around 30 hours of game time. The campaign started the week 4e was launched, so in June 2008. We played 64 sessions. So, with 21 level-ups, thats one level every 3 weeks or so. At first, our average of leveling up was perhaps a bit lower than 3, but I purposely slowed down things later on, when I eliminated XP and made the acquisition of levels based on progression through the campaign plot.

As for the fights, on a good day, we could even do 1 hour or a bit less with 6 players. Of course, this would be just a n+0, perhaps n+1 fight, so nothing really challenging, but an encounter none the less.

Cheers

 

[Eladimir]

Excellent after action report

Finally registered at these forums so I could post on this story.
Was an excellent read I enjoyed it and looking forward to following the new campaign. I knew a TPK was coming but wow I was still shocked when it finally happened.

Got me thinking about my characters epic destiny and long term plans.
I'm going to forward this to my DM for him to read because we only place 4 hours a week and at most we get 2 encounters in.