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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8231337" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>For AD&D 1st and 2nd editions, we didn't run campaigns so much as a series of random adventures, sometimes with the same characters and sometimes with new ones. Since 3.0/3.5, though, I've been at 100%:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My initial campaign with my two sons went for years until my oldest (and then later my youngest) went away to college. We picked it up later, though (years later), and finished it off. Based on occurrences in the latter part of that campaign, it became known as the "Orcus Must Die" or simply the "Orcus" campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My first 3.5 campaign ("Wing Three") with my current group went from 1st-6th level before we restarted with new 1st-level PCs because we added a new player who had never gamed before. Then, when this second wave hit 6th level, we let the new player make a second 6th-level PC and from that point on they each decided, adventure by adventure, which PC they'd run. That campaign lasted 100 adventures (over the course of 9 years) and ended with some (but not all) of the PCS at 20th level.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My second 3.5 campaign ("The Kordovian Adventurers Guild") had the same group of players, this time each just running a single PC. That campaign went for 80 adventures (over the course of 5 years), with each of the PCs at 20th level when we concluded.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My current campaign ("Dreams of Erthe") has the same group of players and is only 7 adventures in, but it's planned to have 100 adventures total and run from levels 1-20.</li> </ul><p>My youngest son also runs 3.5 campaigns (with the same group of players, only I get to run a PC instead of DMing).</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">His first campaign ("The Durnhill Conscripts") lasted 2 years of mostly weekly sessions, with the PCs retiring at the end at 20th level.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">His current 3.5 campaign ("Raiders of the Overreach") is currently 34 adventures in and we're at 11th level. It's planned that we'll all be at 20th level when the campaign concludes, but my son's not sure how many adventures that will take.</li> </ul><p>An interesting thing about his campaigns is that they both take place not only in the same hombrewed game world, but cover the same period of time. So we've already met up with people and events from the previous campaign and will likely do so again over the course of the rest of this second campaign.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8231337, member: 508"] For AD&D 1st and 2nd editions, we didn't run campaigns so much as a series of random adventures, sometimes with the same characters and sometimes with new ones. Since 3.0/3.5, though, I've been at 100%: [LIST] [*]My initial campaign with my two sons went for years until my oldest (and then later my youngest) went away to college. We picked it up later, though (years later), and finished it off. Based on occurrences in the latter part of that campaign, it became known as the "Orcus Must Die" or simply the "Orcus" campaign. [*]My first 3.5 campaign ("Wing Three") with my current group went from 1st-6th level before we restarted with new 1st-level PCs because we added a new player who had never gamed before. Then, when this second wave hit 6th level, we let the new player make a second 6th-level PC and from that point on they each decided, adventure by adventure, which PC they'd run. That campaign lasted 100 adventures (over the course of 9 years) and ended with some (but not all) of the PCS at 20th level.) [*]My second 3.5 campaign ("The Kordovian Adventurers Guild") had the same group of players, this time each just running a single PC. That campaign went for 80 adventures (over the course of 5 years), with each of the PCs at 20th level when we concluded. [*]My current campaign ("Dreams of Erthe") has the same group of players and is only 7 adventures in, but it's planned to have 100 adventures total and run from levels 1-20. [/LIST] My youngest son also runs 3.5 campaigns (with the same group of players, only I get to run a PC instead of DMing). [LIST] [*]His first campaign ("The Durnhill Conscripts") lasted 2 years of mostly weekly sessions, with the PCs retiring at the end at 20th level. [*]His current 3.5 campaign ("Raiders of the Overreach") is currently 34 adventures in and we're at 11th level. It's planned that we'll all be at 20th level when the campaign concludes, but my son's not sure how many adventures that will take. [/LIST] An interesting thing about his campaigns is that they both take place not only in the same hombrewed game world, but cover the same period of time. So we've already met up with people and events from the previous campaign and will likely do so again over the course of the rest of this second campaign. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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