Li Shenron
Legend
I voted 18 months, but we're slow because we often have 2-3 campaigns at the same time and some of them get only 1 session a month. The longest campaigns have lasted longer than 2 years, but they both had pauses.
How Long Do Your Campaigns Last?
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DragonLancer
Hero
Roughly 18 months at weekly sessions of 3-4 hours.
Wombat
First Post
This is very hard to say.
My D20 campaigns tended to last between 6 months and a year-and-a-half.
Paranoia tends to be run as single adventures; Over the Edge about 3-4.
My two longest running campaigns (Plains of Prax for RQ, Gelwich-Aquarda for Ars Magica) ran for over five years each.
I'd say with most systems, the campaigns I run are good for about a year and a half.
My D20 campaigns tended to last between 6 months and a year-and-a-half.
Paranoia tends to be run as single adventures; Over the Edge about 3-4.
My two longest running campaigns (Plains of Prax for RQ, Gelwich-Aquarda for Ars Magica) ran for over five years each.
I'd say with most systems, the campaigns I run are good for about a year and a half.
The campaigns I've run that were "native" 3E / 3.5 (that is, they started out with those rules) have typically lasted 3-4 years. But, I'd note that we probably don't play as often as some of you; once a month for each of them, if we're lucky.
That said, there's a shared 3.5 campaign (several DMs) that I play in that's over 25 years old. It started out as Blue Book Basic D&D around 1980 or so (before I joined the group), and has transitioned to 1E AD&D, 2E, 3E, and now 3.5.
That said, there's a shared 3.5 campaign (several DMs) that I play in that's over 25 years old. It started out as Blue Book Basic D&D around 1980 or so (before I joined the group), and has transitioned to 1E AD&D, 2E, 3E, and now 3.5.
Perun
Mushroom
Our first 3e campaign started in 2001, and ended early this January, with one original member (a human Fighter 1/Kineticist 1/Psychic Warrior 11) still active (a few others retired, and most died 
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Our 2e campaing before that lasted about three or four years, and characters were in the 9-11 level range when it ended (well, my character, a specialty priest of Grumbar was 11th level, due to the overly generous XP advancement table for specialty priests in FR's Faiths & Avatars supplement).
When I run a campaign, it's only for a very short while (a couple of sessions, at most), since I'm the backup for the party's backup DM
Regards.
)Our 2e campaing before that lasted about three or four years, and characters were in the 9-11 level range when it ended (well, my character, a specialty priest of Grumbar was 11th level, due to the overly generous XP advancement table for specialty priests in FR's Faiths & Avatars supplement).
When I run a campaign, it's only for a very short while (a couple of sessions, at most), since I'm the backup for the party's backup DM
Regards.
WhimsyTheFae
Explorer
Unfortunately, my typical campaigns over the past few years have resembled this. It is a running joke now for a "campaign" to last past the first session. I'm working on fixing that.mhensley said:
