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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 5665207" data-attributes="member: 13966">Yeah, definitely.  I've known DMs who always start games at 1st-level (and rarely run the campaign for more than a few levels, if even that), and others who start things off at 3rd or 7th level but quickly drop the game.  And other groups who manage to keep the game going for a few months or a year before they start dropping out or we get TPK'd or the DM just stops running.  most games I've played in have started at low levels and ended after a few levels or less, so I've rarely even had the chance to briefly try high-level play.The longest face-to-face campaigns I've DMed only lasted about half a year or so before too many players had to drop out due to schedule changes (as the new school year began and prevented the younger players from staying in the game; also work-schedule changes for some of the older players required some of them to drop out).  The longest campaigns I've DMed online, over OpenRPG, have lasted about.....lessee......3 years now?  And counting.  My T13K: Fall of the 14th Kingdom campaign probably has another 3 years left in it, or maybe 2 if I rush it (the PCs are around 9th-level, but would be higher if not for some slow sessions and some cancelled sessions each year).The longest campaign I've played in has been The 13 Kingdoms: For More Than Glory, which I played in from 1st-level up to about 13th-level.  My first PC died at 2nd-level and was replaced, then that PC died sometime around 12th or 13th.  However, that campaign has been running under different DMs (sorta round-robin style) as each one gets DM-burnout or finishes whatever story-arc they had in mind, and I've DMed it a few times and just had my PC around as a barely-active DMPC during those times (and my PC died the last time I was DMing FMTG, as I happened to crit him while he was brawling with a frost giant or two and getting chopped up badly).The second-longest campaign I've played in, without DMing at all, was DM Dragonwriter's T13K: Perils of Thunder Island campaign, in which I also lost 2 of my characters, and that game ended after about a year or so.  Everything else I've played in has lasted less than a year (though DM Reckless did run a few different Pathfinder games in short succession as he kept TPKing us, and that string of games lasted about a year or half a year).</blockquote>

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