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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 7394118" data-attributes="member: 98008">This is a topic close to my heart, as most of the campaigns I run are slow paced and I can never seem to run prepublished stuff as it all seems so rushed to me.I find that PCs going from level 1 to 10 in a couple of months bugs me a bit. Likewise the world building of a campaign is really stuffed up by having every single trip down the road being threatened by some monster or bandits. Monster raids, should be a problem about once a year in pretty rough villages. Sure adventurers have more interesting lives than most, but we end up building worlds that no villager could conceivably survive in. We also get the impression that PCs are the only ones in the world that are actually doing anything.In my current game the PCs are poor, but have an incredible opportunity for profit if they can raise 1000GP (IMC that is a lot). They have no real time limit on this, so sometimes they stop in a village and just work normal jobs for a few months if the pay is good enough. Most of the time the village has no dire threats during that time. They don't want to be poor longer than they have to be, so they do go on adventures, they just pick and choose the sensible and profitable ones.In another campaign PCs got a lead on a secret treasure map and went on an adventure to get it. Then they needed to raise 5000GP in order to buy a ship and expedition to go find it. Some generic dungeon crawling and heists ensued. Along the way they adventured for rare books about the place, rescue privateers who could crew their ship, find a staff of weather calming, ensure good relations with the headhunter tribes of the islands around the place etc. It was great because they were self-propelling the adventure, they came up with more plot hooks than I did. A self-motivated adventuring team is far more fun to play with than a railroaded group.</blockquote>

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