02-12-2018, 12:15 PM | #31 |
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Re: Do you have any special rules/restrictions to regulate character advancement paci
I wasn't talking about anyone's particular inclination to run something; I was talking about the definition of the word "campaign" as it relates to role-playing games. I also said *I* was considering a troll wars campaign, not you. It was a hypothetical to demonstrate the meaning of "campaign" as the adventures leading up to achieving a particular objective (allowing other, unrelated objectives), rather than the sum total of all adventures a set of characters in a particular setting have.
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02-12-2018, 12:32 PM | #32 | |
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Re: Do you have any special rules/restrictions to regulate character advancement paci
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If in that hypothetical I wanted to run another story arc or adventure path or whatever you want to call it, I wouldn't have said it was over. In the case of AlexanderHowl's suggestion, do they get the five points at the end of the troll wars? In which case that's the same as giving them the points at the end of a major story arc, whether you call that a "campaign" or not. Or do they get it after all their adventures are over and you say you are done running the game? In which case I suppose the purpose is if another GM chooses to allow the character at that point total they might, or if you chose to allow them at that point total in an otherwise unrelated game, but IME these aren't common events and I think in either case they are going to allowed on whatever points they are allowed, so their bonus points from the other game aren't especially meaningful. Giving them five points after I said that I don't intend to run it again, seems to be encouraging them to bug me about running it again. Giving them five points after I ended the world and they ascended into paradise and are very clearly not PCs anymore is going to encourage them to try to give me an aneurysm. Last edited by sir_pudding; 02-12-2018 at 12:37 PM. |
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02-12-2018, 12:32 PM | #33 |
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Re: Do you have any special rules/restrictions to regulate character advancement paci
I like using characters in multiple campaigns within the same world, though I am always willing to have new character show up at the same level as the existing characters (old players leave and new players join, so you got to be flexible).
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02-12-2018, 12:38 PM | #34 |
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Re: Do you have any special rules/restrictions to regulate character advancement paci
In most of my campaigns it isn't the same world by the end of it.
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02-12-2018, 03:15 PM | #36 |
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Re: Do you have any special rules/restrictions to regulate character advancement paci
I almost never use the same world. I have a theme and premise I want to explore, and I build the world to fit them, or apply them to a borrowed fictional world. And when the exploration is done, I define a different world. Figuring out worlds is so much fun that I'm really reluctant to forgo it.
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02-12-2018, 03:20 PM | #37 |
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Re: Do you have any special rules/restrictions to regulate character advancement paci
I give four points at the beginning of each session. In that session, they are available for impulse buys (a house rule version); after the session, they convert to experience points. Players tend to spend 1-2 points each session on impulse buys and therefore have 2-3 points available to spend on character improvement.
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"When are you going to run that game again?" "The one that ended in the Apocalypse?" "Yeah!" "Uh, never?" "But why not? I really liked my character!" "Okay he is totally happy forever, and everything he does is satisfying and works all the time. He is entirely content for the rest of eternity. The end." "Okay let's play that!" "Uh, no." Is literally a conversation I actually had. That player would have been happy with more XP, but I have no idea why. |
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02-12-2018, 05:49 PM | #39 | |
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*I come up with a theme and premise and a problem, or a series of problems, that the PCs struggle with. That's a campaign. When the struggle is resolved, or the theme is fully explored, the campaign ends. The world was created for that campaign, and when the campaign ends, I put the world away. *When the campaign ends, I keep the world, and later I'll come up with another campaign that the same PCs can participate it. *I, or I and other GMs, come up with multiple campaigns set in a variety of worlds. The same PCs can be migrated freely between worlds, either at the end of a campaign, or perhaps during a campaign, though that's less usual. The existence of the PCs is independent of the existence of particular world. The way I do things is generally the first. That is, a campaign for me is usually linked to a specific world and to a specific set of PCs. I've never had the urge to do the second, and I wouldn't tolerate the third. However, that's not because I DEFINE a campaign as "a series of adventures that take place in a particular world," as Stormcrow seems to think. I define a campaign as a series of adventures with a common theme, premise, and/or central conflict, and normally with a single set of protagonists. The fact that for me, each world goes with a single campaign, more or less, isn't a matter of how I define "campaign"; it's a matter of my choosing to make up a new world for a new campaign. For someone who reused worlds more often than I do, I would consider "campaign" to be a smaller unit than "world."
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AlexanderHowl said he gives 5-point bonuses at the end of a campaign. sir_pudding challenges this, on the assumption that the end of a campaign is the end of ever playing with those characters or that setting again, so what's the point of giving anyone points? AlexanderHowl says he defines campaign in the single-objective way. If you're going to be discussing regulation of character advancement and bonus points at the end of a campaign, you need to agree on which "campaign" you're talking about. Quote:
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