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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brimshack" data-source="post: 3429488" data-attributes="member: 34694">I generally try to keep my campaigns a little slow. My preference is to do this by adding this other than hack and slash without giving a significant x.p. pay-off for them. Lots of extra role-play, and the pay off for that is better circumstances. Since I tend to start the characters with major political obstacles to overcome, it takes quite awhile before these result in easy ply.Most importantly, I am a firm believer in conflicts which do not result in clear PC victory. I figure everybody wants to keep their skin, so there are lots of conflicts where one side or the other ends up retreating and the second allows it.I don't give full x.p. for such things, and it adds flavor to a low level campaign. In the first few sessins the players ar often lucky if they can fire an Xbow without hurting themselves. It takes awhile before they even begin to wrack up a kobald or an orc. Then they begin to build momentum...Anyway, I mean the point is that one can slow down a game by adding challenges which the players may not win, but which they will simply survive. That's my preference anyway...</blockquote>