Odhanan
Adventurer
My longest running campaign to this day lasted 8 years. It doesn't really qualify as far as XP is concerned (even though that seems fairly simple to manage in my opinion, with possible great variations of XP/session rate and reasons to gain XP), since we were playing Vampire The Masquerade. My longest running Third Edition campaign to this day lasted 2 years, from level 3 to level 12/14. This campaign is actually still running technically, since some characters are common and the consequences of the adventures of the last set of characters are carrying on to the next group, including a drastic change in terms of setting (from a homebrew world altered by the PCs which thus became "re-written" from its genesis and became Praemal/Ptolus).
How do you manage to get campaigns running for that long? Well, that's a question of involvement of the players on one hand, and how the DM is invested with the campaign and campaign setting on the other hand. As long as you have a feeling of continuity, you have some characters carrying on from one group to the next, or even some NPCs, and the DM keeps his/her inspiration, events can keep unfolding within the same frame, i.e. campaign.
Also, I consider all of my campaigns, from all games and systems I played, occured in the same Meta-universe. From this point of view, cross-overs are rare but may happen. The campaigns themselves occur, but there's always a trace of what happened during these campaigns in the "grand scheme of things".
How do you manage to get campaigns running for that long? Well, that's a question of involvement of the players on one hand, and how the DM is invested with the campaign and campaign setting on the other hand. As long as you have a feeling of continuity, you have some characters carrying on from one group to the next, or even some NPCs, and the DM keeps his/her inspiration, events can keep unfolding within the same frame, i.e. campaign.
Also, I consider all of my campaigns, from all games and systems I played, occured in the same Meta-universe. From this point of view, cross-overs are rare but may happen. The campaigns themselves occur, but there's always a trace of what happened during these campaigns in the "grand scheme of things".
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