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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5151228" data-attributes="member: 19675">To which I'd reply "My previous answer was merely incomplete, not a lie." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My game is not your game which is not her game which is not his game.Our games run the gamut.We've had several campaigns that stalled out at under 5th level (for a variety of reasons).  Some have ended around 17th level or so.  Essentially, if you pick a PC level, I've probably got a PC that level.  The reasons for campaigns ending have largely been RW issues- people moving, interpersonal conflicts, job schedules, and so forth.  The campaigns that have ended for game issues were more about disinterest in the underlying plots or genres (esp. for non-D&D games), not in the way combats are run.Just to be clear, the 15 minute day (which clearly some systems make more possible than others) has been absent from every campaign I've been in, regardless of RPG.  I simply have not seen it in person.  (And as I've told Hussar before, I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just that I've never seen it.)One thing that may account for that, at least in part, is that I rarely game outside my age +-8 years.  As I've aged, I've gamed mostly with my contemporaries.  It wasn't until I was in my mid 20s that I ran some "intro to the hobby" games for some kids of parents who knew me, and I've had the pleasure of gaming with only a few true grognards- guys who've been in RPGs as long as I have, but came to the hobby as adults.  As such, most of the people I've gamed with have learned to play much the same way.  Even the noobies in our groups are soon playing the same way as we are...since we're the ones who are teaching them the game.At the moment, I'm a member of 2 active campaigns.The first campaign started in 1985 or so, has been updated from 1Ed to 2Ed to 3Ed to 3.5 and is at what most would call "Epic" levels (the lower level PCs are 15th level).  It is still going strong.The other current main campaign is the one in which the aforementioned geomancer is playing- 11th level PCs.</blockquote>

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