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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9870438" data-attributes="member: 29398">The obvious reason for this is that it takes X short pieces to tally up the same content as one long one, meaning that while you can legitimately say the shorts outnumber the longs X-1 in order to make a point it's also a meaningless comparison.Over the last 18 years I've run one big long campaign.  Someone running a new campaign each year would, therefore, have run 18 in that time; and could say he's run 18 campaigns to my 1.  It's a pointless comparison, however, in that in both cases the same crew showed up and played each week and the total number of sessions played is the same.And yet the most successful movies, TV shows, and books tend to be the ones that do go long, as in really long:The MCU (comics and movies)Star Wars (movies and TV series)Star Trek (TV series and movies)Game of Thrones/ASoIaF (books and TV series)James Bond (books and movies)Lord of the Rings/Hobbit (books and movies)Long, for lack of a better word, is good.</blockquote>