One-Shots or Campaigns?
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I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
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.
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.
Shades of Green
Explorer
Campaigns. While one-shots could be fun and have their place, a complex setting and complex characters are very enjoyable to explore.
Arkhandus
First Post
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).
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).
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