Six Years Before the Campaign Mast

Today marks the six-year anniversary of the Hill Cantons campaign proper. The campaign started as a West-Marchish type of affair in Austin with a house-ruled Castles and Crusades powering a more or less biweekly game of old, old friends and their children.

The blog followed on its heels a month with the intention of modestly being a clearinghouse place where I put the house rules, after-action reports and other campaign material and obviously took on a life of its own as a place for me to rediscover the hobby and then go batshit crazy with DIYing and rumination.

Thanks to a few decades of obsessing over the Harper's Index and CRPG game stat run-downs, I am inordinately fascinated with quirky-ass, quantitative breakdowns over time, so here's a ballpark stab (again) at some of the numbers associated with the campaign in its years. Most numbers are likely lowball guesses and reflect the insanely chaotic amount of paper and virtual detritus accumulated.

Number of Sessions: 166

Number of Sessions on Google Plus: 108

Number of Players: 53

Number of Player Characters: 76

Graph Paper Site Maps (almost all dungeons or Undercity): 152

Handrawn Maps: 68

Pointcrawl Maps: 22

Hexographer Maps: 9

Filled Spiral Notebooks of encounters, treasures, events and random flavor notes: 5

Hireling deaths: 72

Rolls on the Death and Dismemberment table: 35

PC Deaths: 15

PCs Raised from the Dead: 2

PC Reincarnated: 1

NPCs Reincarnated: 1

Godlings killed: 3

Gods rescued: 1

Otherworld Gates Entered: 9

Pieces of the Rod of Seven Part found (and then rehidden): 3

Biggest Haul of Gold (cursed): 350,000

Biggest Haul of Gold (not cursed): 20,000

Highest PC level: 7

Highest named NPC level: 14

Named NPCs higher than the party: 12

Highest HD of Critter Killed: 18