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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 5767405" data-attributes="member: 17106">I would say I have finished (as a DM) five campaigns. I've run at least two more that I hoped to finish but didn't because they weren't working. I also ran a CoC game over multiple sessions that might push the definition of 'campaign'.The first campaign I ran finished with a wide range of levels; one character hit level 17 IIRC, while the others were several levels behind (never made that mistake again).The next two were played out to upper teens. Select characters were brought back from each for some fun epic level sessions.The most recent two campaigns I ran both ended at around level 8.In terms of sessions, my campaigns have ranged from 12 sessions to somewhere in the mid twenties. My most recent was meant to be 20 but I had to shorten it to 12 with some really dense, productive sessions and really creative storytelling.In terms of real time, most of my campaigns are a little less than a year, sometimes with substantial breaks in there.As a player, I've done less. I've played in a lot of one-offs, but I'd guess I've only completed two, maybe three short-ish campaigns.***My scope of what defines a 'campaign' is roughly equivalent to a season of dense, serialized television. It has a clear beginning and end, if not necessarily a definitive one (though mine have been pretty definitive). I'd like to aim bigger, but I also believe in running a variety of games with a variety of DMs, and my life (and my players' lives) just don't allow enough sessions to do any more than that. I find that setting realistic expectations is a very important part of DMing.</blockquote>

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