One-Shots or Campaigns?

[Khairn]

I prefer to GM and plan for 9 month - 2 yr campaigns. Real life sometimes throws a monkey-wrench into the works but that's the usual plan.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Campaigns are a series of one-shots.

And most of my campaigns are just single, really LONG shots.

By that I mean that my campaign exists for 1 group of PC's, 1 group of characters, and once they succeed or fail, we move onto the next world, galaxy, universe, etc.

 

[HellHound]

While I love both, I generally play campaigns.

Well, that is to say, I generally RUN campaigns. I only play at conventions, so that means I generally play one-shots (and the Living Arcanis campaign).

 

[Kurashu]

I've played mostly campaigns. However, there's been one or two one shots tossed in for good measure. Campaigns are more fun; but one shots are good when you're a little worse for wear from the BBEG and your DM's overarcing plots.

 

[Nifft]

Campaigns. Wish we had more one-shots in the group, though.

-- N

 

[Nyeshet]

Campaigns.

One shots are occasionally nice, but they don't have room in which to grow or develop (either as a character or in levels).

 

[Shades of Green]

Campaigns. While one-shots could be fun and have their place, a complex setting and complex characters are very enjoyable to explore.

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

Campaigns. However, as I mostly DM, I'd like to play in a one-shot every six months or so.

Cheers


Richard

 

[shilsen]

Campaigns. While a one-shot can be fun, I'd much rather be giving my time and effort to a campaign.

 

[Arkhandus]

I think overall, I've played in as many or more one-shots than campaigns, though not by preference.

For the first few years I was playing D&D (just occasionally, off and on) with my high school buddies, they just ran one-shot sessions or short adventures of a few sessions in length (the longest 'campaign' I played in at the time was probably 5-6 sessions, if even that long). This was with 2nd Edition AD&D mostly, I only got to play about two sessions or so of 3rd Edition with my friends.

After I had to move to Arizona with my parents, I came across WebRPG and then OpenRPG, starting to use the latter and join campaigns. I finally got to start playing in prolonged campaigns, starting with Emiricol's Bandora homebrew D&D campaign. Since then I've played in a handful of year-long, half-year, and two-year campaigns (maybe one three-year campaign). I've also played in a few one-shots, since various campaigns I joined had died shortly after starting (the DMs never really gave a reason in most cases; I and the other online players simply lost contact with them at some point).

Mainly I've been DMing though. Only a single one-shot, and about six campaigns I think (two or three of which have just been half a year or less, aborted when scheduling problems with the players became too numerous); technically one was just me substitute-DMing for Emiricol, in the For More Than Glory campaign of T13K, briefly. And technically, I think the D20 Modern: Agents of Psi campaign I started last week counts as my seventh campaign, though I dunno how long it'll stay together (playing with folks at the local gamestore, whom I'm not especially familiar with yet).