D&D General How long has your Current Group gamed together?

[Crimson Longinus]

My current campaign has been going on a bit over three years now, and it was a new group by the definition of the OP in a sense that it had one new person I with whom had not gamed before. Though they had gamed with one other person in the group. Other people in the group I've known for decades, and we've gamed a lot together.

Games I participate do not always have the exact same people, but there basically is this pool of gamers who all are friends or at least know each other from which groups are formed. This is the case with the Blades in the Dark I'm playing in as well. We've never played with this specific compositions of people, but I've played with all of the people in some other games at some point and most of them have gamed with each other.

So a situation where there is some completely new participant who has not played with anyone in the group before is exceedingly rare.

 

[Mind of tempest]

My "main" group, the longest-serving members have been part of it since, what 1990? 1991? Thereabouts.

damn that is longer than I have been alive

 

[TiQuinn]

Based on the polling definition, 6 months to a year.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Yeah. I have a feeling @Hussar is correct in general, but that this particular forum might be the wrong place for a vote to show that. A lot of us here are long time DMs with long time groups.

I might be the one none dm here

 

[Umbran]

Age of Group= the length of time that the SHORTEST term member has been a member of your group. So, if four of you have gamed together for ten years, but, you got a new player last week, then your group is one week old.

Yeah, unfair, biased, poor polling terms, whatever. It's my poll and that's my definition.

{childish}
Yeah, well, it is my answer, and I'll give it as I see fit. So there, nyah!
{/childish}

I run one group, and play in another - the first is running on... 15 years or more, now? The other started with Covid back in 2020.

 

[jhallum]

As of May, I consider my current group to have been together for 23 years. However, after 23 years, there's only me and another guy who have been there for the long haul. The next oldest is 15, then seven, five, and about a year for the fifth player. We recently had a kind of acrimonious split with a long-time (21-year) player over playstyle differences (he wanted a more narrative game style, completely splitting from Pathfinder 1e). The rest of us were not interested.

edit to add: Our Games have progressed like so: 3.0->3.5->4.0->Pathfinder1e->Starfinder(1e)->Call of Cthluhu->Savage Worlds->5e->DCC->5E->Pathfinder1e.

 

[The Soloist]

The BX/AD&D group lasted about three years.
The AD&D2e lasted about four years.
The 3.5 group a year.
The 4.0 group a year.
The two 5e groups a year each.

The current, anything but D&D group is starting its third year this Fall.

 

[Dioltach]

One group has been unchanged for 22 1/2 years. The other goes back to about 1990 (I joined in 1993), but the newest member joined about 15 or 20 years ago.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Just a poll to see. I'm actually curious what the half life of a D&D group is. I suspect that most groups shift their members every 2-3 years. That, over the course of 10 years, the length of the current edition, most groups have fallen apart and reformed with new players. So, the question is, how old is your group. And to define terms:

Age of Group= the length of time that the SHORTEST term member has been a member of your group. So, if four of you have gamed together for ten years, but, you got a new player last week, then your group is one week old.

Yeah, unfair, biased, poor polling terms, whatever. It's my poll and that's my definition.

in 2000 we started a new Wednesday night game to try out 3e. within 2 months it moved to a Tuesday night game and it grew from 3 players to 6... of those 3 players two still played last week (one passed away) the other 3 players from last week 2 came from 3.5 area and 1 only joined cause he can play remote (we do roll20 now instead of my place) but he and I met in 2002.

We have gained and lost people, but over all this is that same group.

now I said that we started this to try 3e... because we still had 2 2e games going (and another 2e game that started afterwards) all 3 of those OG Wednesday night players had been playing with me since 97 one of them since 95... not sure if I would count that as 'same group'

 

[Dioltach]

Can we start a new poll asking "Who else is feeling very old?"