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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6999442" data-attributes="member: 29398">[MENTION=8530]Silver Moon[/MENTION] these are interesting numbers to compare with my/our own records here.2017-1982 gives 35 years. 1307 sessions / 35 years gives a bit over 37 sessions a year; by this I assume you play weekly (with the usual interruptions sinking about 1 session in 4) with few if any off-cycle sessions or overlapping groups i.e. 2+ sesisons a week with different parties.  'Bout right?1307 sessions / 172 adventures gives an average of just over 7.5 sessions per adventure.  Our long-term average is about 10-11 sessions per adventure, which tells me either your sessions are longer than ours or (more likely) your play is more efficient.My question is, what level is your party?  We've found here that the per-adventure session count tends to increase with higher level, attributable to a number of possible factors: adventure (module) complexity and size, more options per character and opponent slowing down combat, more access to divination-type spells causing more time being spent planning and information-gathering, and so on.  For comparison purposes, our campaigns have all started at raw 1st and each got to the 9th-10th range (no PC has ever got beyond 12th); with very slow advancement rules, lots of cycling of parties and characters (and sometimes players!) all countered by us often running more than one session per week e.g. in my current campaign for a long time I ran one group on Fridays and another on Sundays - these two groups had lots of overlap and interweaving of characters and players, and stemmed from a common root. Lan-"congrats again on the amazingly long campaign"-efan</blockquote>

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