I’m trying to estimate the length of any given BitD campaign, as well as the approximate progression “arc” so to speak.
I could use some datapoints, if people are willing to help out:
In your group, about how much player xp is typically gained in a session? How much crew XP?
If you’ve ‘completed’ a BitD campaign, how many sessions did it run for?
We’re finishing ours next week. Um… somewhere like 80 sessions? I couldn’t say about XP, but on average I’d say crew XP is 3-4 and PC XP is 2-5 (heavily weighted 3-4), depending on spotlight time and engagement.
My long-running game (which has unfortunately gone into hiatus very recently) went 80+ sessions. Each major story arc lasted about 25 sessions, so when we pick up the game again we’ll be continuing chapter 4. However, I suspect that we may be an outlier, and most other campaigns will likely run a bit quicker.
I played in a short campaign, we played in 2-hour chunks, took us 6 sessions (including character creation) to reach tier 1.
I just completed a 10-session campaign. PCs earned 2-6xp per session (not counting desperate XP or training), and the crew earned 2-4xp.
We see usually 1-4 XP per character and 1-3 for the crew. It’d take bloody forever to mechanically “finish” the game.
My game lasted 23 before it closed due to life circumstances changing. We called that an arc and could’ve easily played twice that.