RPGs and Genre Exploration

[Iron]

I was thinking my campaign would take about a year. It took 1.5 months to do one gym badge, x6, plus Elite Four and so on. But that's really up to the players!

I agree that different DMs have a drastic impact on things. I'm currently playing in a campaign with a DM trained by me, on the same homebrew planet as me, using the same ruleset as me, with many of the same players...and it's still drastically different.