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posted by [personal profile] benlehman at 03:41pm on 30/04/2009
The shortest full-group game of Polaris I've played is three sessions. The longest is five sessions.

I know some people have played longer games. If you've played, please post (or contact me) and tell me how long it took you to play to the end.

Thanks!
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posted by [identity profile] amnesiack.livejournal.com at 10:58pm on 30/04/2009
Do games of Thou Art But A Warrior count? The special Discord track seems to definitely speed things up. In our one-shot at Gamestorm08, we got to 15/20 Discord in about 3.5 hours. Of course, we were pushing to see how far we could get in a short time, so the results may vary from "natural" play.
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 11:13pm on 30/04/2009
TABAW does not count. Different ending conditions.
 
posted by [identity profile] ptevis.livejournal.com at 01:33am on 01/05/2009
Eight sessions, but we did play slightly wrong. (We accidentally exhausted individual items under themes rather than the themes themselves, giving us more exhausts.)
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 03:52am on 01/05/2009
Thanks! Useful data point.
 
posted by [identity profile] matt-rah.livejournal.com at 03:54am on 01/05/2009
When I played with [livejournal.com profile] relevance plus two (awesome) guys you don't know, it took us three sessions, IIRC.

Matt
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 04:02am on 01/05/2009
Thanks! I'm thinking it looks like 3-8 sessions is the normal range.
 
posted by [identity profile] matt-rah.livejournal.com at 03:17pm on 01/05/2009
FWIW, I personally can't imagine playing that long. I love the game, you know that, but I just think it would get dull after 5 at the most. Or, to put it another way, I feel like I would be bored playing with a group that wasn't acquiring enough experience to all die/become demons by around the middle or end of session 3.

Matt
 
posted by [identity profile] greatwolf3000.livejournal.com at 07:41pm on 04/05/2009
Looks like five sessions, based on my AP reports.

 
posted by (anonymous) at 02:00pm on 10/05/2009
When you people say "3 sessions", or "5 sessions", or "8 sessions"... How long is a "session", approximately?

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