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Hello, I'm new to Adventure Paths as a DM, but my father has ran Rise of the Runelords before I started on Reign of Winter. I am having a mental crisis that this Adventure Path is going to fall short. We are currently at the end of Book 2 after about 10 or 11 sessions of Reign of Winter. Is this normal and will it get longer?
I did promise my players that I would make side-adventures for them to pursue if they want to. This seems to be one of my only ways of extending the Reign of Winter Adventure Path that I see.
Is this the only one? Or are there others?
It sounds like you're on track. I expect an AP chapter to last about 1 month per chapter, assuming weekly meetings.
Continuing the campaign at the end would extend it significantly, but you'd be using an outline and writing up new material, which is a big time investment.
Side adventures between chapters is another way to do it.
I am halfway through book 3 at roughly 8 months (one month was off due to annual training). I've added hours upon hours of roleplay with Greta, Nadya, Black Rider, Red/White Riders (when they found them), Radosek, Rohkar (this guy was around for like 3 consecutive sessions due to RP and TPK), Korag Kaag, etc. They also had about a 3-4 session derailment to get their first reincarnation. (its been easier to get people back after that)
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one adventure per about 6 sessions is the rate I'm advancing with my players... of course these are very long sessions I'm talking about, lasting 6 - 8 hours each.
If you are worried about the speed, you can always encourage the players to roleplay more among themselves, or you can toss an extra encounter or two per session. It's easy to slow things down.
We only get to play about 3 to 3.5 hours per session, so we've been at it for a while. The fact that we have 6 players slows things down quite a bit. 8 or 9 sessions in and still on Book 1. I can't imagine ending two books in only 11 sessions. That is fast!
I just wrapped up book one, and I think I started in September. We run mostly-weekly sessions that last about 3.5 hours.
I wish. Then again, it's been six months since my last game. A wedding, hunting, and the holidays conspired against the "Skyrim" game. :(
roughly 3.5 sessions a month, 4-6 hours, started in april, wrapping up book 4 saturday night.
I'm trying to aim for one book per month, and cutting some encounters to make it happen, both because my players get bored with too many combats, and I will be parting from my players in August, and want to reach the end of the campaign by then. We typically have 3-4 hour games.
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I've been running weekly 3-hour sessions since April/May-ish last year and we've only done the first 3 books (plus another book's worth of homebrew sidequests).
We miss quite a few sessions (about a quarter of them) due to work, and we tend to chat and joke about a lot.
We also run Gestalts, so leveling up becomes a grueling & time-consuming slog.