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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5451436" data-attributes="member: 6957">I currently have two Pathfinder groups - one is a Teens & Tweens game and the other consists largely of the first groups' parents. (It's becoming a family tradition! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> *Does a little dance.)One group focuses on the task at hand and bends their concentration to achieving their goals. The other wastes time, interrupts itself, takes breaks for snacks, and talk about how much their kids are enjoying the game too.... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />The important thing is that both groups are enjoying the game - the kids can go through a good three and a half hours of play in four hours while their parents manage about half that, but both are having fun and playing at their own pace.A third group (up until this very week I had been running four games a week... not one of my wiser endeavors... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> ) was a bunch of thirty something brand new players, more focused than the parents but taking about the same amount of time because of questions, both on how to play and how to run. That game is now finished and the Parents and Tweens campaigns are going to be alternating, giving me a much more reasonable two games a week.The fourth game is a leisurely Steampunk/Gargoyles game using the Spycraft system. No rush, no hurry, just lots of roleplay. Actually accomplishing things is quite aside from playing - most of the players are also LARPers. This is going to stay at one game per week.So, the answer to the question is 'Which group?'The kids may go through three combats, search a small complex or solve a minor mystery, and settle down for the night in a single sitting. The adults... one, maybe two combats (they are much more chary about ending up suddenly dead), and a few clues followed up on.The Auld Grump, meanwhile the Gargoyles will have had a good meal and conversed in character for a good three hours....</blockquote>

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