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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkham" data-source="post: 3570766" data-attributes="member: 332">In the game I run that has just concluded:- 6 or more players depending on the night, up to 9.- Vastly more wealth than suggested. XP strictly by CR/level.- Almost all standard magic items available with a little effort. Non-core items available with more effort. Most custom items available on commission.- Wide open choices on books and materials used, but with minor sanity checking.- Few house rules aside from being a 3.0/3.5 mishmash.- Totally module-based. No homebrew used.- Campain lasted almost 4 years and 22 levels ( 5-27 )- PC death is very common, with at least one dying per night.- Ressurrection magic plentiful and available ( at 3.0 prices )- Usually had the "classic" 4 roles covered, but with variation. Ftr/Rgr/Brb instead of straight fighter, etc.- Hack-and-slash oriented play, originally a blow-off-steam off-week game which just kept rolling.- 40% of the group is female.- Play with mostly close friends, those that started as strangers becoming friends.- Sessions are 6 hours with only about 3 hour of action due to distractions of dinner, smokers taking a break, children that can't sleep, etc.- Sessions are weekly, every sunday, occassionally moved to Monday on long weekends.- Play is at my (DM's) house always, due to being mostly centralized and the needs of small children.Game that is starting up is as above except:- Gestalt rules + action points used.- 3.5 only with minor house rules.- No magic item purchases available except potions.- Totally home-brewed, no modules.- Expecting (hoping) to last a year or two, and no more than 10 levels.- PC death almost nil, and plot significant when it occures.- Gestalt, so the 4 roles will probably be covered several times over.- Roleplaying oriented, with action for spice.In other words, almost totally different...</blockquote>

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