Adventure Path length and pacing?

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#1

gmanjkd

Jun 18, 2015 15:25:24		Hello all, I find all three of the AP's interesting and would love to run each of them. It appears that WOTC plans to publish one every 5 to 6 months. Are these expected to take 5 months to finish? WotC has mentioned that they want to bring their player base back and avoid splitting that player base. It makes sence that they would want the consumer to purchase every one of their limited number of product releases. In order to make that a viable option it would seam that all adventure paths would be designed to start and finish within the 5 month storyline window. Does anyone know if this is the case? Do these adventure paths i.e. ToD, PotO etc last about 5 months from start to finish?
#2

Ath-kethin

Jun 18, 2015 16:47:53 		It really depends on how often you play, and how much extra stuff you work in. You could easily make them last for months, but I know groups who blasted through them in a few weeks (by playing 3-5 times a week). It really depends on your group.
#3

CCS

Jun 18, 2015 21:34:48 		Depends how fast/often you play....

Right now I'm a player in HotDQ in 2 different groups.

●Group #1: We started in Nov.'14. We play every other Sunday for 4 hours. Real life conspires so that we miss an average of 1 session/month. We've had a few extra bits added & RP diversions. We're just about done with the dragon egg hatchery..... it's going to be a long time before we finish this module, let alone RoT.

●Group #2: We started in Feb.'15. We play every week on Wed evening (having only had 2 cancelled session), for 2 hours. Feb was a short "intro" adventure to get everyone familiar with 5e & up to lv2 (DM thought Hoard too hard for 1st lv characters). We just finished looting the dragon egg hatchery. It's going to be a long time before we finish this module, let alone RoT....

Now if I were to play/run HotDQ with my other Sunday group that meets every other week for 5 hrs? (My Sunday gaming alternates. It goes 5e, PF, 5e, PF - with completely different people) We'd be done with Hoard & about 50% through Rise by now. With an average session seeing about 3.5 hours of actual play.