We played in our 200th game of our campaign yesterday.
Game 1 was September 29th, 2011.
Game 200 was November 17th, 2024. 13 years and two months later, with a largely new group of players. One player - who ran Vryce - is still currently active in the campaign.
It's been a long campaign. We've averaged only 15 sessions a year, below my goal of 20, but we keep on going.
I'm curious how many people have been reading along for the whole time . . . probably not even all of my current players!
I've been here from the beginning, but I can't say I've read all of the play reports. When I am running short on time, play reports are one of the first things to feel the crunch. I do think about going back to various actual play series and reading straight through them, and I think Felltower is likely to be one of the first I'd do that with simply because it's GURPS instead of some other system.
ReplyDeleteYou probably have some of the earliest comments on the blog . . . with 16,000 or so of them it's a big hard to scroll back and check. 200 session reports would be a big of a long read, especially when I was being extremely wordy somewhere in the middle frame.
DeleteI'd actually gone back to check when it was to make sure I wasn't misremembering something, and my first comment was on the second Caves of Chaos play report, 18 October 2011. I was, sorry to say, airing my own preferences for lower-power play, a drum I probably didn't stop beating for years, if I know me at all. Happily, though, it did give you opportunity to introduce me to DF on the Cheap, for which I am grateful even if nothing ever came of that campaign idea of mine. The gaming group I was part of at the time and I parted ways, unfortunately.
DeleteI for one have only been following for the last year or so, but that's only because of my recently renewed interest in GURPS after a 20 year hiatus. I've been thoroughly enjoying the stories & ideas.Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are enjoying them. They're amongst the most laborious things to write, but I think they're the best thing the blog has to offer to my players and to casual readers alike.
DeleteI came along in 2013 and was inspired to pick up DF and 4e after many years away from gaming because of Felltower.
ReplyDeleteI remember you saying as much somewhere back then as well. I'm glad I made the system seem attractive enough to get involved with.
DeleteI'm pretty sure I've been reading (just not commenting) since 2011, sometime in October (maybe even late September). I distinctly remember your "I Hate Kobolds" and "Problems not Solutions" articles as being very "yes, this is how I prefer to run as well".
ReplyDeleteI remember someone on the SJG forums discussing using Caves of Chaos in GURPS and mention you were blogging about it, so I hoped over here to read... I just can't remember if your first and second session had already been posted or not before I started reading. I suspect it had, mostly because I don't remember reading any of your non-Caves of Chaos posts from September... but then Caves of Chaos 1 is your last September post.
I was on the forums back then, before the fun-to-frustration ratio went below 1:1. So I probably posted about my session reports back then. Our stupid time killer of a game meant to tide us over until we found a real campaign sure has some legs.
DeleteAnd yeah, sounds like you've been here since right around when I started. I think I gave it a few posts before I started telling anyone I was doing it.
I've been mostly lurking since at least 2006. I suspect I started as soon as you posted links to Pyramid forums, but no clue how far back that has been. Longtime fan of much of your writing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for lurking and reading!
DeleteFollowing since 2019. Yours was among the first blogs I read when I got into GURPS. Yours and Olympus.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the follow and the comments when you make them. I feel like I'm doing something right by the game I enjoy if I can blog about them in a manner that attracts reading and comments.
DeleteCongratulations on the milestone! I've only been reading for five years or so, but I've read all the session reports.
ReplyDeleteOnly and five years is a funny thing to see together!
DeleteI was here for the Caves of Chaos and still reading. Speaking of which, if the next group of new characters went there would they find appropriate loot and danger levels?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sticking it out this long!
DeleteThe Caves are largely ransacked . . . I haven't gone back to restock them. I'd have to give it some thought what would move in, especially given the destruction of the hub of evil that drew so much to it, but it's likely it would be low-value encounters at best. Nothing particularly scales in my game, so it would likely be a treasure-light walkover.
Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteI think that I've been following since the early in the Caves of Chaos. I suspect you were a few session in, as I recall going back and reading from the first session report to catch up. I've fallen behind with the summaries, so that I don't read them consistently now. However I do find many of your GMing posts around your Felltower houserules and other procedures to be interesting and I often go back and re-read some of those again years later.
You were very much inspirational for me to start my first DFRPG campaign and also my own blog on which to post session summaries. I've also been lax in posting to my own blog lately. I need to get back to that before it's too late.
Thanks again for being such an inspiration!