Campaign Duration

[Haltherrion]

How long do your campaigns typically last?

 

[Jacob Marley]

How long do your campaigns typically last?

18 - 24 months of twice a month gaming. This is about how long it takes us to go from level 1 to level 14/15/16 in 3.5.

 

[Almacov]

I have no idea what the average is.
Some are over in a session, some last years.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Getting one consistent campaign to last a year has proven quite a challenge. I doubt I've ever exceeded that by much and I doubt I ever will.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Two years is a lot of time to devote to any activity you do on a weekly basis.

I've had jobs that have lasted for less than two years.

People get degrees in two years.

At my height of productivity, I'd run a "campaign" in about 3-4 months. Recently I've been doing shorter shots, but I've got a round-robin campaign going pretty strong.

D&D needs to be shorter.

 

[Hussar]

6-24 months.

And totally not surprised at the response to the poll.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Hard to think of a one session game as a campaign, unless you
TPK the whole party.

Most of my games run a long time as I play on Yahoogroups and that slows things down a lot.

In my face to face games, they usually last a year to two.

 

[Haltherrion]

We tend to 18 ro 24 months, sometimes a bit longer. Create a concept, execute the game, let it run its course. On to the next thing. For us, we basically run the story equivalent of between a long novel and a trilogy.

Lately our games would start level 6-10 and run to level 15, sometimes to level 20+. Current campaign we started level 1, partly because we switched to 4E and we are all new to that.

For the few who run much longer games, I'm curious to hear how you pace it and how you keep it going that long. Nothing perjorative intended. I've just never been in a game that has run anywhere near that long and can only guess how you do it, especially for the over 10 year long ones

 

[Haltherrion]

Two years is a lot of time to devote to any activity you do on a weekly basis.

I wish I could still pull that off. It's been many decades since I could game that regularly. We shoot for every two weeks but fall short of that on average.

 

[Ryltar]

Since my group (of old friends spread all over central/western Europe) only gets together once to twice a year ...

... we're looking at years to decades of gaming here .