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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
Olefin, I was just reading some of the notes from my first T2k campaign, the one that we played as the modules were coming out, and I have to agree with you. I did a LOT of compression, the game lasted 14 months real time, just 4 months of game time.
They picked up some vehicles in the woods outside Kalisz, went to Krakow, almost immediately got on the boat-- left some vehicles and a few NPCs behind-- sailed downriver, fought only 2-3 battles, fought the big battle with the Baron, drove right back to Krakow in 1 day, did a little bit of scouting in Silesia and got the order to go home. I probably only spent 2-3 sessions on each book?
I had forgotten that during Pirates, nearly all of the group was badly wounded and a few killed in the river fight south of Warsaw. The rest of that mod was done with some new PCs, while the rest recovered in Gora Kalwaria.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm using Krakow as the basis for convention games, and I've got several more sessions that I can do.
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I think the real shame is that the early modules especially had very richly developed areas for exploration with lots of detail that you could have spent ten or twenty sessions in some cases and still only scratched the surface - but the timeline was so damn compressed that was impossible - you basically had to do what you did and what my GM did - which is take a hell of a lot of short cuts
its the reason my GM has us find enough fuel to keep our vehicles on gas and diesel - he did the calculations and given the timing needed to brew fuel the only way to do the modules was to have us stay on conventional fuel or find ready made methanol or ethanol in large enough quantities that we didnt need to take the the enforced three day pauses for brewing fuel - there just wasnt enough time otherwise to actually play the modules right where you could take your time and do it realistically - i.e. not go into Krakow, find Reset and get it to the DIA in two or three days and off we go to the boat!