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I know that each group is going to be different, but approximately how long (in game, from the characters perspective) would it take to complete the AP?
There are several places where you can theoretically spend months doing nothing but travelling, so my first thought was somewhere between 6 months and a year, but I'm not sure if I'm looking into things too much and it'd be much quicker.
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It depends on the party's resources and the type of players you have. The adventure plot for the AP is linear, but the adventures are written very sand boxy. When I ran it for my PCs, see following:
In book 1, it took the PCs 7 days in game time to complete the adventure, exploring Briarstone Asylum (9 sessions in real time).
In book 2, it took the PCs 5 days in game time to complete the adventure, exploring Thrushmoor and environs (16 sessions in real time).
In book 3, it took the PCs 79 days in game time to complete the adventure, PCs traveling from Thrushmoor to Cassomir by riverboat (23 sessions in real time).
We just got to book 4, and the PCs spent 3 days finishing the Cassomir chapter (13 sessions in real time). My PCs will now have to figure out how they're going to travel to the next destination (either by purchasing a ship, renting passage on a ship, using teleportation, transport via plants, etc) which will determine how much time is spent traveling or if they wish to do anymore downtime.
So it gonna differ with each group with how much time PCs spend with chasing their personal interests, downtime, trying to build connections with NPCs, etc.
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So far it seems like that tracks with my expectation (a little over three months to get halfway through), so that's good. Thanks!