D&D General How Long Have You Gamed With Your Current Group

[Voadam]

How long have you been a part of your current gaming group?

If you are currently part of multiple gaming groups go with the one you have been with the longest.

For purposes of this poll please consider any TTRPG as D&D. My longtime face to face group has rotated DMs and played D&D and Pathfinder and Vampire and Mutants & Masterminds and d20 Modern and Shadowrun and others but it all counts here as being one gaming group.

As long as the group keeps going it counts as the same group even if nobody else who was there when you joined is still there.

This is intended as a complement to the poll on how long your group has been in its current configuration and asks a slightly different question to reveal different information.

 

[el-remmen]

I chose 3 to 5 years because my longest current group started in November of 2019. But my other group that started in April of 2020, has members have played with on and off for 24 to 31 years.

 

[Voadam]

I am in three groups currently the longest for me started in the 4e era in 2010 I believe when I joined the group. The other two I joined in 2020 and one started earlier this year.

 

[Voadam]

I chose 3 to 5 years because my longest current group started in November of 2019. But my other group that started in April of 2020, has members have played with on and off for 24 to 31 years.

Sounds good.

I have been gaming with my brother on and off since 1981. I joined his online game with his new gaming friends in 2020 but I do not consider that the same gaming group as my original hometown gaming group that included both of us.

 

[The Soloist]

Almost four years. We've played Symbaroum, Fantasy AGE, Modern AGE, The Expanse AGE, Coriolis, Traveller, Vaesen, and Dragonbane. Paranoia is our current game. Blader Runner is next on the list with Twilight 2000 later.

 

[Blue]

I'm part of several groups, and there is cross pollination between them. I had one group split into two different games on different nights but the same people so I count that the same group, but then one of those added several people from another group. But we also have things like a group I ran took a 6 month hiatus for each of my kids, but started back up in the same campaigns with the same players and characters, so to me that's the same group.

The shortest amount would be 5-10, because one distinct group I'm in is in that which has been just 5e, as opposed to another distinct group that's run 5e, Masks: A New Generation, and Vaesen. But really I'm with 20-30 as my Errantas group started in 2000 with Session 0 when the 3ed PHB came out before the other books were out, continuing to another campaign in that same setting in 3.5ed, going to me running a campaign in 13th Age, to one friend running first a full homebrew RPG game, and then a post-post-signularity, post-apocalypic, pre-cyberpunk supers game that was very much about "these powers are wasted getting into fights instead of improving humanity", then into Pulp 1920s Call of Cthulhu, (then me taking people from this group and onther to run a 5e campaign in parallel to everything else) then split into one player running Scum and Villiany and another running Fate as a SF game inspired by The Expanse meets Mass Effect, which is currently on a "two players had a baby" hiatus. There was gaps between games, especially as I needed a few months off after running a several-year campaign to completion (longest was 7 years, shortest was 3), but continued with largely the same group.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I've played with at least some of the components of my current group since about 1976-1977, so...

(An enormous amount of different campaigns and game systems have gone over the falls in that period).

 

[SableWyvern]

My current group was formed in the late 90s, so 20 - 30 for me.

Prior to that, I either had a 7 year group and a separate ~2 year group, or you could consider both of those to be single ~10-11 year group with a pause in the middle and some changes in personnel when it reformed.

Members of the current group have, at times, included people from the very original one, and I have never been without a stable group any time I've made any real effort to be part of one.

I've had it pretty good.

 

[GrimCo]

In October it will be 16 years of gaming with this group. In this group, there is my HS friend with whom i'm gaming for 20 years and my younger brother with whom i play for 18 years.

 

[Stormonu]

Covid did a number to the groups I'm a part of, and things got a bit reshuffled and intermixed. Some of the group I've been playing with over 10 years, while there's a couple members I've been playing with for less than a year.

Strangely enough, this has been the longest stint I haven't been a forever DM and just a player. My Saltmarsh game ended near the tail end of the pandemic lockdown so, I've been on the player side of the screen for about 3 years or so.