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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7883098" data-attributes="member: 29398">I said nothing about running two campaigns concurrently; I was referring to running one campaign for a longer time, and changing out the characters partway through.  Nor did I refer to multiple groups.What I was referring to is changing characters within the same campaign rather than starting a whole new campaign.  It'd look like this, as an example:Mary starts DMing a campaign at level 1; Joe rolls up Grouser, a Fighter.Mary's campaign starts with a hard AP but as it goes along she introduces external story elementsA year later the AP is finished.  Grouser's now 10th level.Mary now has the players roll up new characters at, say, 8th level and starts a second AP based on the external story elements she introduced during the first one; Joe comes back with Andwen, a Bard.A year later that second AP is done; Andwen's now 15th level.Mary now gives Joe (and each of her other players) a choice: keep going with Andwen, update and bring back Grouser at 15th, or roll up a new third character.  He decides to roll up new, so in comes Kedrick the Rogue.Mary finds a way to tie the two previous APs into a third, shorter one based on how the previous two ended, and runs the group, including Kedrick, up to 20th over the next six months.Mary's now run a 2.5-year 1-20 campaign during which each player has been able to run out two or three characters.Those wells are exactly as deep as one chooses to make them.</blockquote>

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