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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7401622" data-attributes="member: 82106">Eh, I'm not some sort of super detailed note taker or recorder of exactly what happened in every session. Even so, I don't recall ever running into some problem of 'incoherence'. Certainly its possible to make up everything as you go over the course of, say, 50 to 100 sessions, and have it all work out. I never had problems with things getting 'out of whack' somehow. Now, I have never had a single continuous chain of playing sessions with basically the same players and same or rotating characters playing through a sequence of scenarios, what would often be termed a 'campaign' (though sometimes people use the term in slightly different ways) that lasted for many years. I've had some that lasted 2-4 years. I've had the same players come back to the same basic setting, maybe some even reusing existing characters, at a later date and establish a follow-on to an earlier game. I just don't see very many campaigns surviving for 10 years at a time. I know there are quite a few, in absolute numbers, which have, but in terms of being a subset of all campaigns, its a tiny subset. I guess my point here is, maybe I can't run the same thing Story Now for 10 years, I don't know. I can't PROVE that can happen, but I think it is such an edge-case of games that I'm unlikely to ever have the chance to test that. I can only attest that 'many sessions' are quite feasible, and that you don't have to have the powers of recording (or recall, whichever it is) of [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] in order for that to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7401622, member: 82106"] Eh, I'm not some sort of super detailed note taker or recorder of exactly what happened in every session. Even so, I don't recall ever running into some problem of 'incoherence'. Certainly its possible to make up everything as you go over the course of, say, 50 to 100 sessions, and have it all work out. I never had problems with things getting 'out of whack' somehow. Now, I have never had a single continuous chain of playing sessions with basically the same players and same or rotating characters playing through a sequence of scenarios, what would often be termed a 'campaign' (though sometimes people use the term in slightly different ways) that lasted for many years. I've had some that lasted 2-4 years. I've had the same players come back to the same basic setting, maybe some even reusing existing characters, at a later date and establish a follow-on to an earlier game. I just don't see very many campaigns surviving for 10 years at a time. I know there are quite a few, in absolute numbers, which have, but in terms of being a subset of all campaigns, its a tiny subset. I guess my point here is, maybe I can't run the same thing Story Now for 10 years, I don't know. I can't PROVE that can happen, but I think it is such an edge-case of games that I'm unlikely to ever have the chance to test that. I can only attest that 'many sessions' are quite feasible, and that you don't have to have the powers of recording (or recall, whichever it is) of [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] in order for that to work. [/QUOTE]

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