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From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Sesson time (was: Re: Intro part 2)
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 01:21:18 -0500
At 04:40 PM 12/22/97 -0700, GRANITE wrote these timeless words:
>> Wait a sec! 4-5 hour sessions? Do you get anything done in that
>time? I
>> mean, if I told my players that we could play for...say 8 hours, they'd
>> laugh at me
>
>Lots can be accomplished in that amount of time..When I had my
>regular group that was our standard session time as well..Some times
>it makes it a bit harder to get through a module..but that means your
>$ to enjoyment time ratio goes way up..
>
>> Hell, we spend four hours telling dirty jokes, before we even start
>> playing...
>
>That is one of the first things that goes when you have a limited
>amount of time to play in..jerk around time is out the window..Not to
>say that it is eliminated..htat is of course impossible..but it is
>cut way down in the interest of all...And some of us oldtimers simply
>don't have the concentrated time off to to pull a 12 hour gaming
>session..
>look at it like this..conventions only sched 4 hour slots..and look
>at the amount of gaming gets accomplished in that time...
>
Agreed... We were by no means serious at GC during ANY of the Tourney
Rounds... We were having a ball... But I also think we got a LOT of the
game done, and pulled off a lot of RP :]

Of course, we abused poor Granite... But I think he enjkoyed it as much as
we did :]

Bull
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