Just curious how much time it took you as a GM to run your group through the beginners box session.
How many hours are the starter box sessions?
Straight up new to the game took about 3-4 hours for the EotE game. I ran it a couple of times for different groups, about the same amount of time for each. The free PDF followup is several session's worth. The AoR game was a bit shorter, but by then I was a lot more comfortable with the game, and chopped out some things I didn't like. Again the PDF download is another several session's worth. Never ran the F&D game.
Just finished TFA Beginner Game and it took about 7 hours over two sessions, but I added another hour or so of content at the end of the adventure to flesh out the 2nd session a bit more. Was pretty fun.
The AoR Beginner Game only took us one 3-4 hour session to play through, but it’s pretty combat oriented and that tends to go pretty fast in this system. Probably my least favorite of the bunch.
Edited by AnomalousAuthor3 hours ago, AnomalousAuthor said:T he AoR Beginner Game only took us one 3-4 hour session to play through, but it’s pretty combat oriented and that tends to go pretty fast in this system. Probably my least favorite of the bunch.
I love this system, but if the combat goes pretty fast, you might miss something xD
Just now, Rimsen said:I love this system, but if the combat goes pretty fast, you might miss something xD
Oh, I dig the feel of combat in this system.
4 hours ago, AnomalousAuthor said:The AoR Beginner Game only took us one 3-4 hour session to play through, but it’s pretty combat oriented and that tends to go pretty fast in this system. Probably my least favorite of the bunch.
I'm not crazy about the adventure in the box for AoR, it's too simple and I modified it heavily. But I really like the modular options in the PDF download, it really makes up for it. There's easily enough adventure seeds in there to turn into a campaign if you want.
33 minutes ago, whafrog said:I'm not crazy about the adventure in the box for AoR, it's too simple and I modified it heavily. But I really like the modular options in the PDF download, it really makes up for it. There's easily enough adventure seeds in there to turn into a campaign if you want.
That’s good to know. I’ll have to check that one out. Thanks for the tip.
On 4/16/2019 at 12:49 AM, whafrog said:I'm not crazy about the adventure in the box for AoR, it's too simple and I modified it heavily. But I really like the modular options in the PDF download, it really makes up for it. There's easily enough adventure seeds in there to turn into a campaign if you want.
I wasn't that impressed with the first half of the F&D box either but it picks up in the second half.
The adventure at the back of F&D CRB was actually really good but it's harder to find players who haven't looked at it...