Re: In-Depth Spelljammer Campaign

At 13:16 +1000 8/7/03, Andrew wrote:
>1. How does one make the move to a "spelljammer is all" type of
>campaign. How does one deal with the boredom of months in space and the
>huge travel times? Do you DM's out there make simple roles to determine
>total travel time and number of encounters or play out every day?

Anytime they're going somewhere, they know the by-the-charts travel
time (at least in-sphere--they haven't gotten into the Phlogiston
yet).  So i find out ahead of time what they're doing: "Assuming
nothing comes up, what're you gonna be doing for the first month
ofthe voyage?"  That way, if something *does* happen, i can just skip
to it, without short-circuiting player input, but also without giving
it away.  So, if i know pirates are going to ambush them on the 20th
day, i know they'll be about 3/4ths of the way through whatever they
were planning to do that month, so i can cut in with the event
appropriately.  And if nothing exciting happens during that month,
we've already summed up what occurs, and can move on.
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