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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7343871" data-attributes="member: 29398">I've had a few players over the years who, while not going so blatant as the all-19s route, would consistently generate stats that trend considerably higher than the norm when left to their own devices.&nbsp; Hence, a blanket rule - often enforced by the players as much as by me.Sorry 'bout this: I've been ignoring that advice with every campaign I've ever done. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />When I design a campaign my internal goal is that it'll last for the rest of my life provided people remain interested in playing it, and so I only have to do all this work once.&nbsp; What I've found is that about ten to twelve years seems to be how long they last, in part due to the levels etc. getting high enough that the system collapses and in part because I've run out of ideas.You mean, like the printed-book version of Song of Ice and Fire?A year is barely time to get nicely underway with a level or two under your belt. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (hint: for a long campaign, slow level advancement down to a crawl)That said, if a campaign has 100 campaigns in it it's still just one campaign.&nbsp; We have different parties we rotate through that sometimes meet and interact; I'll bake in some what-amount-to APs - these might be the mini-campaigns you're thinking of - but there's always an underlying continuity to the whole thing.On this I think we completely agree.Lan-&quot;current campaign hits ten years next month&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7343871, member: 29398"] I've had a few players over the years who, while not going so blatant as the all-19s route, would consistently generate stats that trend considerably higher than the norm when left to their own devices. Hence, a blanket rule - often enforced by the players as much as by me. Sorry 'bout this: I've been ignoring that advice with every campaign I've ever done. :) When I design a campaign my internal goal is that it'll last for the rest of my life provided people remain interested in playing it, and so I only have to do all this work once. What I've found is that about ten to twelve years seems to be how long they last, in part due to the levels etc. getting high enough that the system collapses and in part because I've run out of ideas. You mean, like the printed-book version of Song of Ice and Fire? A year is barely time to get nicely underway with a level or two under your belt. :) (hint: for a long campaign, slow level advancement down to a crawl) That said, if a campaign has 100 campaigns in it it's still just one campaign. We have different parties we rotate through that sometimes meet and interact; I'll bake in some what-amount-to APs - these might be the mini-campaigns you're thinking of - but there's always an underlying continuity to the whole thing. On this I think we completely agree. Lan-"current campaign hits ten years next month"-efan [/QUOTE]

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