Re: Campaign pacing

gleichman wrote:
> So...basically...
> 
> The question is how to compress the extended meaning of a full
> campaign into a quicker version without all the required time for
> playing out the character development? Nope, I don't have a clue as to
> why a person would even want to to shoot themselves in the foot so
> badly let alone an answer to that.
[...]

Quite likely, the person wants the "powerful" sense that one gets from 
high-level play, but he feels that the only legitimate way to get it is 
to piously "earn" it, by starting with an incompetent character and then 
gaining experience after game-start.

A more charitable guess is that the vast number of crunchy bits high 
level D&D3 characters have is simply too much to handle at once, and 
that the only way to cope is to ac***ulate the crunchy bits gradually, 
i.e. by starting at low level (with few crunchy bits) and then adding 
half a dozen or so after each session. This guess, however, fails to 
explain AD&D, in which there are very, very few crunchy bits, and in 
which charater class choice can easily "****eld" you from the problem 
(i.e. by chosing one of those cl***** which gets very few crunchy bits, 
or none at all).

-- 
Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org