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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8808616" data-attributes="member: 508">My son ran a two-year 3.5 campaign (&quot;<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-durnhill-conscripts.597733/" target="_blank">The Durnhill Conscripts</a>&quot;) that was specifically designed to run through the night's short adventure no matter how many players showed up.&nbsp; Of the five players (from two families between us), three of us never missed a session, while two very frequently missed sessions in the first third or so of the campaign.&nbsp; But the game setup was we were working directly for the King, who needed a team of &quot;troubleshooters&quot; to go on missions that, if they went awry, he had plausible deniability about.&nbsp; (So were were kind of like the Suicide Squad without being made up of &quot;bad guys.&quot;)&nbsp; For each session (we met on Wednesdays for short, 2-1/2 hour sessions), if the player showed up, his or her PC was involved in that game session's mission; those PCs whose players didn't show up had been given other assignments that didn't earn them any XP (stuff like, &quot;watch this inn and report back if anyone shows up wearing a red hat&quot;).&nbsp; As a result, after several no-shows, we had some discrepancies in our PCs' levels.&nbsp; But the concept worked out very well for us, and for the last half of the campaign I don't think we had anyone missing a session.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8808616, member: 508"] My son ran a two-year 3.5 campaign ("[URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-durnhill-conscripts.597733/']The Durnhill Conscripts[/URL]") that was specifically designed to run through the night's short adventure no matter how many players showed up. Of the five players (from two families between us), three of us never missed a session, while two very frequently missed sessions in the first third or so of the campaign. But the game setup was we were working directly for the King, who needed a team of "troubleshooters" to go on missions that, if they went awry, he had plausible deniability about. (So were were kind of like the Suicide Squad without being made up of "bad guys.") For each session (we met on Wednesdays for short, 2-1/2 hour sessions), if the player showed up, his or her PC was involved in that game session's mission; those PCs whose players didn't show up had been given other assignments that didn't earn them any XP (stuff like, "watch this inn and report back if anyone shows up wearing a red hat"). As a result, after several no-shows, we had some discrepancies in our PCs' levels. But the concept worked out very well for us, and for the last half of the campaign I don't think we had anyone missing a session. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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