My Story Hour is over 663 pages in Word!

[Len]

My Story Hour is over 663 pages in Word!

My first thought was, He means it's 666 pages but he doesn't want to write that lest it attract the wrath of anti-D&D statanists.

 

[Sagiro]

This thread made me curious about the Word length of my own Story Hour. Although I don't have a continuous document from Post #1, the narrative just from run #100 through run #154 is 420 pages. Extrapolation then tells me that were my entire Story Hour contained in a single word doc, it would be about 1200 pages!

To be fair, my average words per run has increased over the years, so a more accurate estimate would only be around 1000 pages.

-Sagiro

 

[Silver Moon]

My longest one was for our 100th module, set in the Forgotten Realms orient I posted as the "Chinese Take-out" Story Hour. It clocked in around 200 pages.

 

[el-remmen]

Phil, you shouldn't exaggerate. I checked, and it would be 5 1/2 pages.

You guys are SO MEAN! I'm complaining to the Mods!

Either that or join in on making fun of Sagiro, if you should choose to do that. 1000 pages! What a geek!

 

[(contact)]

Pages, shmages. What's the word count? (Tools > Word Count) My SHs clock in at:

The Risen Goddess
Wordcount: 150,441

The ToEE2 / Liberation of Tenh
Wordcount: 154,992

Definately a puny geek obsession when compared with the l33t 666 pages of Nemm's SH.

 

[Lazybones]

So, I was just compiling my story hour into a zipped up word document and added up the various pieces I found that not including the most recent thread (the Fearless Manticore Killers & The Necropolis of Doom!), which has yet to be compiled the whole monster is six hundred and sixty-three pages long, single-spaced and with slightly less then one inch margins.

n00b. My old SH (Travels through the Wild West) is 768 pages (468,000 words), and my new one (The Shackled City, currently in the third mod of the series), is 271 pages thus far.

Lazy "Tolstoy" Bones

 

[el-remmen]

Pages, shmages. What's the word count? (Tools > Word Count) My SHs clock in at:

The Risen Goddess
Wordcount: 150,441

The ToEE2 / Liberation of Tenh
Wordcount: 154,992

Definately a puny geek obsession when compared with the l33t 666 pages of Nemm's SH.

Interesting. Something new to obsess about. . .

Out of the Frying Pan - Book I: Gathering Wood
Wordcount: 93,890

Out of the Frying Pan - Book II: Catching the Spark (part I)
Wordcount: 93,348

Out of the Frying Pan - Book II: Catching the Spark (part II)
Wordcount:141,311


Suddenly I feel inadequate. . .

 

[Piratecat]

Suddenly I feel inadequate. . .

Don't feel inadequate - BE inadequate!

Astonishing enough, yours is 275,419 words and mine is 278,016 words. REALLY close. Lots of dialogue must add a lot of space. But (contact) beats us both, we suh-huck compared to Lazybones, and I fear Sagiro's word count.

I think this is going to have to be the new measure of my masculinity. I always knew (contact) was sexier than I was. Damn it.

 

[Sagiro]

...and I fear Sagiro's word count.

You have nothing to fear but fear itself... and Lazybones. My word count checks in at approximately 355,000 words, assuming that about 5% of StevenAC's way-cool .pdf compilations are non-story-hour content.

It will go up some if I ever get around to publishing my more detailed 3-days-to-Abernathy character intros, but not by that much...

-Sagiro

 

[shilsen]

Yeah, yeah - but what's the ratio of words/pages to sessions? That's when you really know how verbose you are. I don't have a story hour, but I've recently been writing up the sessions in my campaign (didn't do so originally). I currently have ten sessions, clocking in at 132 pages and 60,000+ words. And that's after I made the last two sessions simply narrative synopses, with no dialogue noted. So that's an average of 13 pages or 6000 words per session. How bad (or good) is everyone else?