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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7643552" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!We do three types of campaigns.NOTES:Length of Session since about 2000: Typically about 5 hours, sometimes 6, occasionally only 4.Length of Session before 2000: Typically 8 hours.Length of Session before 1990: Typically 12 to 14 hours.(...man...to be young again with no real life stuff to get in the way of what REALLY matters!... <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=";)" /> ).Almost all of those sessions were on a weekly basis. With the exception of pre-90's. Those were every Sat & Sun, & School Holidays, and pretty much every single day from June to Sept 1st. Yeah...we played a LOT in school/high-school days! Anyway, three types...:"Test Runs"These campaigns are for when we want to try a new game or version. They can last anywhere from a single session, to about a half-dozen. Typically about 5 hours, sometimes 6, occasionally only 4."Mini-Campaigns"These campaigns are for when we want to 'get into' a game. These are usually about 8 to 12 sessions (2 to 3 months). Sometimes these turn into regular campaigns."Regular Campaign"No time limit. Hell, if I end up playing with a couple of high-school friends we just pick up where we left off a couple decades ago. I guess the longest running campaign I have 'going' started back in about 1981 when I picked up the World of Greyhawk Folio and we 'transferred' our B/X characters into the 1e game system. Been playing that ever since. Now, don't get too impressed...as I said, we never really 'stopped' it and when I do get to hang out with the old gang, we just pick up from the last 'session'. That last session was probably 1998? Maybe a bit latter? My character, Denakhan the Arch-Mage (20th level grey elf MU; 1e), along with another friends pixie faerry PC called Pik (annoying little pita!) just got out of the "Bath House Dungeon" under the streets of the Citystate of the Invincible Overlord and heading to Teeble Kegbetters tavern. Teeble is a halfling thief of another friend who, alas, died back in the early 2000's; still miss you Dave! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />But if I'm limiting myself to "more or less continuous play", I'd say the average "regular campaign" lasts about 2 to 3 years. Alas, due to that pesky thing called "Life", we haven't done a true Regular Campaign in a decade. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Nowadays? Lucky to have a Regular Campaign last more than half that.Side Note: This is one of the reasons why I still don't consider all those "Adventure Paths" to be "campaigns". They aren't. They are just longer adventures. After an AP is done, it is expected that the Players will all roll up new PC's and do a completely different AP that has zero connection to the one they just did. It may be "fun as a game and pass time", but it sure as heck isn't what an actual Campaign was expected to be; a continuous timeline with the same PC's or new ones picking up at the same time the last ones retired/died. But, I'm an old and crotchety grognard with a serious case of Grognardis Curmudgeonitis. I've accepted my fate. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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