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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DNH" data-source="post: 5030527" data-attributes="member: 63615">Some time ago I elected to play through the WotC Adventure Path 'Scales of War' with my gaming group.  There was some apprehension back then about the lack of a decent plot outline (you all had the same issues) and that it was not really going to work with my campaign setting (Mystara; and it doesn't really but I was giving it a go anyway).  Anyway, I went with it and started reading it through, liking it more and more as time went on.But then reality hit me.My group meets online once a week to play for three or four hours.  It has taken us about ten sessions to get through Siege of Bordrin's Watch, and it was probably about the same for the first adventure (we didn't play Rivenroar but it's the same thing).  I had a rough estimate there but I sat down this morning and looked at things a little more closely.  I will not go into too much detail here but considering the remaining 16 adventures in the AP, switchover time for my group's other DM/campaign/setting (PFRPG) and downtime where we don't play at all, my estimate puts the Scales of War end-game coming in around Spring or Summer of 2019!  Hell, we might have seen D&D *5e* by then.  Or to put it another way, if WotC continue to produce APs one after another, they will have published a further six of them by then, and be closing on the Paragon Tier in a seventh!  I really don't think it's good to lock our group into doing something, the same thing, however good it might be, for the next ten years.Now don't get me wrong - I like APs.  I like extended story arcs.  Over-arching themes, recurring NPCs, all that.  Thing is though, to do justice to them, or not even that but just to play through them, it takes time.  And time is something my group doesn't really have enough of.  I have put a large amount of work into preparing these adventures (I kinda have to, given that we play online - go Fantasy Grounds 2!) and a part of me is loath to set all that aside, but I feel it's better to cut my losses here and now and move on to do something else with my campaign.  I have a few ideas and lots of material that I had been largely ignoring precisely because we would be playing through the Scales of War AP.  I am posting here because I would be interested to know how many other SoW DMs have done the sums.  I am hoping you get to play more hours than we do and will not have an issue with this, but you might be surprised how big a time-sink a 30-level AP is going to be.</blockquote>

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