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This got me to thinking about running games up to, into, and through retirement. It is my sincere hope that all my gamer bros & friends (you know who you are!) will be interested and able to get together on a somewhat regular basis (more than a once a year convention) to enjoy the gaming goodness and build a campaign.
40 Year Campaign... and an idea
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Necron 99
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Long running campaigns like this are something I've always wanted to pursue, specifically in respect to D&D or similar system. I think this is also where I got the recent idea to start running a "living campaign" at conventions (and online), where the actions of the characters can actually result in changes to the setting or simply be present in the setting while other characters are being run simultaneously. Of course, this means that players could return to a game, year after year, and progress within the campaign world until death, retirement or whatever. Doing so, would require allowing players to roll up their own starting character, which I'm fine with. Using rules and requirements from the old TSR RPGA and Polyhedron magazine, I've actually started putting together a rough draft for character creation in C&C, for just such a purpose.
I wish this was something I would have considered doing back when we were playing face to face in GA, but I'm pretty sure I had too much "gamer ADD" going on back then, heck even up until a year or so ago, to really sit down and consider working on a longstanding /running campaign in such fashion. Now, though, as I'm pushing 49, next year, the idea of narrowing down systems to a small collection and working the majority of the time on a sandbox setting seems much more enjoyable.
I wish this was something I would have considered doing back when we were playing face to face in GA, but I'm pretty sure I had too much "gamer ADD" going on back then, heck even up until a year or so ago, to really sit down and consider working on a longstanding /running campaign in such fashion. Now, though, as I'm pushing 49, next year, the idea of narrowing down systems to a small collection and working the majority of the time on a sandbox setting seems much more enjoyable.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Captain_Blood
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How much do you like Rhiven? Because I have no problem with your current group being Generation 0. 
“May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.” -Malcom Reynolds
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Necron 99
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Lol, idk, right now I'm 0 and 2 (or 3) for surviving characters in your games. Not sure how much longer Rhiven will be around, especially with our next move to infiltrate the island of the Baroness.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Ancalagon
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Elsewhere I mentioned me and my gamer bros & friends each selecting a nation on the isle of Harn to be the GM for and run something. The same idea could work for the Greyhawk setting.... Just thinking out loud here-n-stuff....Ancalagon wrote: ↑July 30th, 2022, 12:12 am<snip>
This got me to thinking about running games up to, into, and through retirement. It is my sincere hope that all my gamer bros & friends (you know who you are!) will be interested and able to get together on a somewhat regular basis (more than a once a year convention) to enjoy the gaming goodness and build a campaign.
“Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan