Campaign/Game Length - Let's do math!
I was trying to figure out how long it would likely take to play through all 18 floors of the dungeon.
So we know from the books that the first floor was open for five days, and that a "day" in the dungeon is 30 hours.
Subtracting 8 hours for sleep each day leaves us with 22 hours of activity each day.
Times 22 by 5 gives a total of 110 hours that crawerls could potential spend exploring the first floor before it collapses.
Obviously crawerls/teams can and probably will descend earlier, but even if we round down to 100 hours, that would take 50, 2-hour sessions of gameplay. That's almost year of playing 2 hours every week, just for the first floor! And we know that each floor stays open longer than the last.
Based on what I've seen/read of the gameplay/rules so far, it seems that houserules are encourged, so undoubtedly GM's could customise the length of time each floor is open for.
What do y'all think? Are you going to stick to the canon of the books for your games? Or will you do something like make 1 hour of real-world play equal to 2 or 3 hours of in dungeon time?
I've never played a TTRPG before let alone been a GM, so I want to know what everyone else thinks. Am I overthinking it?