We’ve had a character die by rope before.

Fell down a pit, survived the fall, the spikes, and the poison.

Ended up getting crushed by the coil of 500 feet of rope the party checked down after him.

(The DM was feeling evil that day.)

So yeah, not too much rope.

Have fun keeping up! My rule is ‘give them enough rope’.

In this game, I’m doing the Pathfinder adventure path from Paizo. This may seem like I haven’t learned my lesson, but while there is a large, overarching plot, it is much more episodic, with 6 individual, largely independent adventures creating the whole.

As such, it is much less likely we will lose interest in the plot due to the changing adventures, yet we get the satisfaction of keeping the same characters throughout the whole thing (if we want to) and having a huge, months-long campaign.

In any case, my ideal adventure will take 1-2 months to complete (playing every week for 4-6 hours). A string of those will make up a campaign.

When you look a the type of player around the table you know that a good fight will please every one…

You are entirely right that starting an organization and running it is a great way for players to invest in a game world. I have PCs being leaders in them and it does provide material for stories!

Good tip!

We do like to fight a lot! And once Yan switched from a Arcane Caster to a melee fighter (making all players into warrior types) the message was loud and clear that Fighting for fighting’s sake would continue!

To arms friends!

The heroism is questionable. I prefer somewhat dark games, which tends to make pure goody-two-shoes heroism rare or at least painful. That makes it all the more exciting and valuable when it works.

Phil, your game does seem to have a unifying theme. It also seems to have lots of digressions and fights for the sake of fighting. An entirely different structure.

I guess this lasts as long as the initial plot remains. It could be argued that game we play currently is that…. once you game world is saved, we wrap this up and move on to 4e…

Well in my case, I will invest myself a lot more in character that I know I’ll be playing again.

The gratification is proportional to how much you’ve invest yourself in it. A one shot adventure fails on that account.

That being said this does not mean one shot cannot be interesting just that I’d rather have a campaign.