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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 9100092" data-attributes="member: 6925338">We run 3 hour weeknight sessions normally regardless of game type, although I have GMed 6 hour weekend sessions with more narrative style play a couple before.I think it probably is harder but certainly not impossible. It's maybe not so much about creative fatigue as just unpredictability - it's harder to know where things will go, so you can find yourself having to improv a royal court visit or the like. If it's a short session you have the week inbetween to regroup but if it's a long session you have to maintain the momentum and do it live. You can help yourself out a lot though by delegating things to players if appropriate - 'OK guys, what do we think the patron saint of oozes and jellies is actually like? Everyone give me a trait.'I try to split the party too. Or at least, don't really try to force it to stay together unnaturally. This often makes more sense in the fiction anyway (Bob why are you coming with me when I visit my kids?) and the rules probably have less of an expectation of needing a group of different specialists. Cutting between two or more groups of PCs means players have short breaks inbetween to recharge their creative batteries and makes it easier for the GM to maintain momentum by staying with or going to whoever obviously has ideas to express. In a more traditional game you probably have more prep to rely on, both because players have less agency to switch things around (there I said it) but also because the system is likely to take longer to resolve big set piece battles and so forth. If fights take hours rather than minutes to resolve then there is more game time to fill up with story and exploration.</blockquote>

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