Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
10 sessions for me is a short campaign. I have done 3 to 4 sessions as a short campaign and I have done 10 to 12. 10 Sessions has time to develop story and some character development. I think players could accomplish one or two short term goals but nothing epic. I probably am going to sound like a broken record but I have two primary systems for short campaigns like this.
Oddly, I am never really satisfied with a 2 hour session or less playing an RPG. I love to tell an epic story and it’s rare that you can get one told in 2 hours or less. But I have done it and still had fun. In most cases, it was done at a convention as a demo for a particular system or a quick arena fight. The “best” system depends on your audience and what you intend to do in those 2 hours, for me. So my answer initially is “Depends!”
I have decided a week late to join this conversation. Life being so busy with family stuff, kids stuff, personal gaming and convention planning, I totally missed this the first week, despite the fact that two good friends have started doing this. After looking into this, I decided to try it out.
(Under construction) I expanded on this years ago but since then, I have had many new influences inspire me to re-address them. One in particular is Alternity Star*Drive setting. The Armagons sound like an External race from Star*Drive, so I am going to use that as influence into my reboot of the Hykosians and Shatterzone. The original Hykosians or proto-Hykosians…
From: Fabled Environments Reviewed by: Ron McClung The Battle of Whistle Reach Junction is a new Savage Worlds RPG Adventure from Fabled Environments. Savage Worlds has its roots in horror and westerns. Since its beginnings as simply Deadlands, the trappings of a western style game still exist with the cards and some of the terms (Aces, Wilds Cards, etc). The…
From: Fabled Environments Reviewed by: Ron McClung Olympus, Inc. is a new RPG Core Setting book from Fabled Environments . Urban fantasy and horror is a very popular type of setting these days, and with shows like American Gods or books like the Percy Jackson series, the subject of classic mythical gods is in the forefront. Out with the classic…
So we got feedback from That Con because they like to do surveys and all that. While I am sure they have more than enough to deal with on the fandom end, by statistics, we did fine. Out of 66 respondents, about 3 were rather scathing and hurtful. So, cathartically, I am posting them here. It is a realization that if my work with That Con is going to continue, I have to really look inside myself and figure out what is going on. Is it burnout? Or is it something else? Can it change?