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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 2198810" data-attributes="member: 478">It definitely takes much, much longer. You cannot view it in the same light as a gaming session, because the content of one session is probably stretched over a month or even longer.The good thing is, that with such a long time at your hand, there is really plenty of time to make careful and well-thought-out decisions (not that everyone does that, tho <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).I can give you an example from my own PbP, which runs for almost a year now.In that time the party has completed two missions (the whole thing is very open and "mission-based", i.e. there are several missions on a bulletin board, which the party can choose from, but they could also just go exploring on their own) and is on their third now (first mission was to scout a graveyard and to report any undead activity, the party went a bit far there and had a few clashes with the undeads, too; second mission was to free a temple from a large group of orcs, which had desecrated it for their own nefarious ends; currently they are after some bandits, which had attacked them on their way back from the temple), with some time between each mission spent in town, where they could forge alliances, get help, and dig up useful information, and there was a journey to the adventure site (where characters could get to know each other and get used to the flow of the game and so on) inititially.There have been nine combat encounters so far, of which three were pretty big fights with a dozen or two opponents against the party.Here are a few combat maps from some of the bigger fights (some maps take some time to show up, there are literally thousands of tiles in some, which are placed by a Java script, so be patient):<a href="http://www.abiwolnzach02.com/ruins/map/map000102.htm" target="_blank">Zenthilar Patrol</a><a href="http://www.abiwolnzach02.com/ruins/map/32x32/map020302.htm" target="_blank">Undead Attack</a><a href="http://www.abiwolnzach02.com/ruins/map/32x32/map040402.htm" target="_blank">Temple of Bane</a><a href="http://www.abiwolnzach02.com/ruins/map/32x32/map050100s.htm" target="_blank">Webbed</a>The characters have leveled from 2nd to 4th level so far.Out of six PCs, one has retired quite early, since the player wanted to do something else instead, and one PC is currently "on extended vacation", since of extended time issues one player has (so instead of tagging along all the time, the PC just left for some time to hopefully come back eventually). There hasn't been any PC death yet, tho it has been close a few times already.So far, it has been a lot of fun! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />ByeThanee</blockquote>

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