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Subject: fast vs. slow campaigns
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Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 16:44:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 11 16:44:13 1983
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	Many people play in or are running long term campaigns
	with low level characters and little magic.  Except for my
	last campaign, this is what I did as well, but to tell you the
	truth I got bored with running such a campaign.  Sure I did
	a lot with character development and my group had some
	good adventures, but after a year or 18 months my players would
	get tired of characters that were still to weak to take on most
	of the monsters they saw in the MM and heard discussed about
	in song and legend.  So I decided that my next campaign would
	have more rapid advancement and a greater amount of magic items
	found/available.  I immediatly found the play more exciting 
	and I found that the increased pace of the campaign did not
	mean I had to give up role-playing and become a dungeon engineer,
	but instead that it was easier to fit my group into the large
	campaign picture.  Their daring deeds soon brought them to the
	attention of the more important people and they found themselves
	caught up in a whirl of adventures.  The magic they found got
	better as they did harder and harder things, but for each new
	item gained, they used quite a bit of acquired magic and became
	excellent problem solvers.  

	My point is that one type of campaign isn't better than any
	other, if a group and a DM comes away from a session feeling
	glad they came and looking foward to the next session, then
	that is an AD&D sucess story, no matter what type of campaign
	it is.

	b2  ...ucbvax!lbl-csam!lanl-a!bb  Bryan Bingham