Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Yes, I'm sorry - I should have been more clear!

I was the Deputy Governor of the province at the time, and so had a lot of say in the process. I did clear everything with my Governor, of course, who thought that the idea of arresting the noble Lady was about as dumb an idea as you can get. We were also on campaign with our little army, demonstrating the benefits of civilization to the locals, which also meant that we had a lot of leeway in the process.

Very interesting comment on your players! Can you tell me more?

It sounds like a spectacular sort of campaign.

Originally Posted by RPGPundit

It sounds like a spectacular sort of campaign.

Well, I guess you could have called it that. We played the same player-characters for over a dozen years, 'growing' them from your basic entry-level people to pretty high ranking ones in that time. Some also 'went up in level', as they invested time in the various temple schools to learn new skills - which was how we dealt with people having to drop in and out of the campaign over time.

By the middle 1980s, we were well into what I think people refer to as 'the domain game' as we tried to manage the affairs of the province that I was assigned to. Phil had handed out fiefs to two players back at the beginning of the campaign in 1974, but it just didn't work out - the players involved were just too 'footloose' to stay and manage the fiefs. I will freely admit that I loved the challenge of running the government; Phil was worried that we would not have enough to do, but I used to send out the other players on 'missions' and 'quests' that were generated by the problems we faced in governing a frontier province.

Over the years, we played against the backdrop of a dozen major story arcs, and we heard about them through the usual rumors in the market place - Phil would then add our adventures into his novels, as rumors that the characters in his books would hear from their sources...

It was all great fun - we had immense amounts of what I think is called 'immersion', these days, and being in the main all F/SF fans we did a lot of 'non-gamer' things like artwork and the costumes our characters would have worn.

I don't think one could run a campaign like that, any more. My perception is that people don't have the time to devote to something like that, and I get the impression that there's a desire for 'rules turnover' amongst players these days.

Originally Posted by Moracai

I think so too.

And to add to your impression, people like to play different characters in different settings more and not to devote their experience to just one character for such a lenghty period of time. There's a thing called "gamer ADHD", and I too suffer from it occasionally.

Great story nonetheless

Thank you! And I want to say that I'm not meaning to denigrate anyone's play style, either. About all I;m saying is that the past is a different place; we did things differently there...

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I don't think one could run a campaign like that, any more. My perception is that people don't have the time to devote to something like that, and I get the impression that there's a desire for 'rules turnover' amongst players these days.

We still play the long game. We still play the Call of Cthulhu characters we started in the 1980s and the Star Wars characters we started in the 1990s. Our current game of Honor+Intrigue has run 165 sessions with each PC having run on between 1 and 137 sessions.

But judging by what I read online there are a lot of folks who don't play long campaigns. I suspect that people who play short campaigns or who switch systems a lot are more likely to post online than folks like you or me.

Originally Posted by Bren

We still play the long game. We still play the Call of Cthulhu characters we started in the 1980s and the Star Wars characters we started in the 1990s. Our current game of Honor+Intrigue has run 165 sessions with each PC having run on between 1 and 137 sessions.

But judging by what I read online there are a lot of folks who don't play long campaigns. I suspect that people who play short campaigns or who switch systems a lot are more likely to post online than folks like you or me.

Very cool! I think you're right about the forum postings, too.