(TFT) Re: SPAM::TFT Digest V4 #12

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 1:59 -0500 2/6/10, Jay wrote:
> Mr. T recently reported a old-school marathon session.
> I miss those, and I never got to measure this personally, but my general
> fealing is that 90 minunets is about right to get through a drama-point in
> an adventure.
> Mark, does about 90 minuets twixt intenst action in the game sound about
> right for the game?
> Potty breaks and whatnot? (I don't smoke in front of my non-smokers for
> example.)
> This becomes interesting when you start trying to fit 100 years of detailed
> downtime into a 90min play session as opposed to a session of 5 second turns
> in 90 min.

	If playing on a regular basis, and you have a table or other 
play area that can be left set up with maps etc., I can imagine 
90-minute sessions.
	Since I get to the table about 1/year, I really want the 
session to be long enough to include:

finalizing characters,
catching up with friends' lives for the last year,
adventure introduction,
several challenging battles,
2 or 3 intense strategizing sessions,
maybe one or two ethical discussions
	("do we *really* have the moral high ground here? I mean, we are
	 stealing, even if we are stealing from thieves..."),
wrap up in time that nobody gets killed driving home.

	I was pretty happy with the play "intensity" of our last 
(16-hour marathon) session; it was close to the number and types of 
elements above, so, looking back, I think your rule of 90 minutes per 
drama-point is pretty good, assuming a "drama-point" can fit into any 
of the categories I listed above. I know for sure we played past the 
point of diminishing consciousness for several of our players, 
though; so I suspect the strategy of 4.5 hours, including 3 or so 
"drama points", on each of 4 successive nights, might work even 
better.

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