Hell's Rebels Timeframe

[AegisRom]

It feels as if my table is running through the adventure path at breakneck speed. In-game time is.

We play Sundays for 5 hours, your standard holiday, and crisis breaks notwithstanding. We are 18 months table time invested.

In-game, it has now been three months since the Night of Ashes, and the Ravens have survived the Ruby Massacre.

A lot has happened. We've followed the books suggestion fairly well, with quick layovers in Vyre and with the Acisazi tribe.

How long in-game have others taken to get as far? How long did it take to finish the story in general?

Thx

[Grankless]

That's about what I've taken, too. Started in the 8th month, it's currently mid-11th (Neth). I feel like if they don't hunt for downtime (I've given about a week or two between books, and they've done individual days) that's about what it probably should take.

[roguerouge]

It was about 1-2 years through books 1-5 in game, but that includes moving the negotiations up into book five. Then I did a 20-year jump before starting book six. That book looks to take about 1-2 weeks in game.

Out of game, I think it's closing in on six years, with weekly sessions of about 3-4 hours.

[Kasoh]

About a year and half or so of in game time from start to finish for my group. I started with putting a week between each session so we could open with Rebellion turns unless they were in the middle of a dungeon or whatever.

[Brenden Falke]

My group is about to start the haunting of Kintargo and it's been almost 6 months to the day (ingame). I did add a 4 week period for elections after liberating kintargo and some extra side adventures but overall I feel they've moved through the campaign at a reasonable speed.

[xTheJim]

In real-world playtime I've noticed that this seems to be a VERY fast adventure, at least compared to when I was running Reign of Winter.

We play once a week for 2 hours, and I seem to be leveling up my PCs every 5-or-so sessions. Especially as we get into the later books, they're able to bypass some of the fights by roleplaying their way around them, which generally takes less time than playing out a full combat.

For in-game time I think it's pretty reasonable at the start. Early on the PCs were doing one mission per game-week, so that section lasted several months. I'm in Book 4 now and they're flying through it though. They beat 3 of the 6 missions in a single day, and they're on track to beat the next 3 in only a day or two. And that's right after doing the Opera House.

It's funny to think of how they went from 9th to 12th level in the course of less than a week of in-game time.