How long are your seasons?

[KillerWhale]

I was wondering... How long are the seasons in your games? I run 12-eps long seasons for Star Trek, but with much more character-driven eps coming in our Buffy game, I am thinking of increasing the season length to 15 or 20.

So I thought I'd do a little poll: how long are your seasons?

[Ineti]

The 3 season Trek series I ran a while back with a co-GM had 15 episodes per season. We'd split the season between us.

15 was a good number...not too hard to achieve and a good sense of completion at the end. And binders full of notes.

My new co-GM and I are noodling on a new series, and we haven't settled on a number of episodes yet, mostly because we won't be able to run the series weekly or even bi-weekly.

[Greg Smith]

I use 12 episode seasons in Trek. I'll probably use less if I ever get around to running Buffy.

[qerlin]

About 15. Originally I did them in 22 eps chunks, like the show, but that's a TON of work. Occasionally, it's a few more or less, depending on whim.

[pathstrider]

10 epsiodes long. It keeps me from deviating from my original plot (Sometimes my ad-lib's can get out of hand).

Plus, they coincide with a university term here - several of my players are still at uni...

later days!

Mark

[Sho-sa Kurita]

About 3 months. Ba-dump-bump!

[Hadley]

In setting up Season 1 of my Starfleet Campaign, I decided that if it was good enough for Paramount then it was good enough for me. As a result I ran a Season of 26 episodes in total, either adaptions of existing scenarios from TrekRPG.net, old FASA adventures or ones I wrote myself (some of which I took ideas from the 'Adventure Seeds' Thread on this site).

It was bloody hard work getting everything set up and ready, but resulted in a great 3 month-long campaign that my players all seemed to enjoy immensely . Thankfully, nearly all the group are/were Star Trek fans as well as gamers, so this helped.

[Lt.Khrys Antos]

As lon as I'm interested.

I make a batch of about 12-15 episodes and then add in fillers in between the main story arc. As soon as I run out of ideas or get bored, I introduce the grand finale and begin on the next series idea.

Works best for me.

[Evan van Eyk]

I usually do ten episodes. That gives room for any additional episode which one of my players may come up with or to put in some extra episode based on what the characters did in a previous one.

[Diamond]

I have a season run half the school year, running every other week.

[Capt. K. Vaughn]

Major campaigns: 22 to 26 episodes per season.

Mini-campaigns: 11 to 13 episodes per season, no more then 2 seasons.

Regards,
CKV.

[ImperialOne]

We just completed our first season... I have a meta plot planned out for about four seasons.

This first season was 20 episodes.. I expect other seasons will be 15 to 20 episodes.

Charles

[Rayaru]

My two seasons have turned out with 9 and 8 episodes respectivly. Seems we're able to wrap up in that amount of time.

[KillerWhale]

Thanks guys - it seems there a lot of different formats out there. I think I'll keep my 12-eps format for Trek since it appears we are able to wrap the metaplot in this time, but I will probably increase my Buffy seasons to 15 or 20 eps as there is a lot more social roleplaying involved.

Cool input

[loryk]

I'm very disappointed my dear KW

You know how vile I am, and if I understand well we have only 12 episods in a season because we don't have "social roleplaying involved"

but you had never told us that you found our social behaviour so limited

I'm sorry to learn that but in order to defend me and my crew I'll respond we 're not here to be social we're here to save the galaxy