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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9340292" data-attributes="member: 29398">Given those parameters, I've been more successful than I'd originally thought.&nbsp; Ignoring proto-campaigns that fizzled after just a couple of sessions (usually a new-to-it DM quickly realizing that playing is better) and the one still in progress, I've been in as player:Short (4-month) intended-to-be-sandbox campaign that ended after 1 completed adventureLong (10-year) sandbox campaign that ended when a) the system collapsed due to level and b) the DM burned outLong (8-year) partly-sandbox campaign that ended when RL got in the way and the DM ran out of playersLong (10-ish year) sandbox campaign that I joined and left a few times while in progress (RL time constraints)Long-ish (3 year) sandbox campaign that I left fairly early (didn't see eye to eye with the DM)Long (11 year) sandbox campaign that I left while in progress (RL time constraints)So of those, I was there for the end of the first three and had left before the end of the other three.&nbsp; In both cases listed as &quot;RL time constraints&quot;, the main problem was too many games, too few nights in the week.&nbsp; I don't know how the campaigns ended that I left part-way along.And that brings up another variable that the poll doesn't - and can't, really - account for: that oftentimes a long campaign will outlast many of its players, who come and go as the campaign rolls along.&nbsp; Does it count as an unfinished campaign if the campaign itself was successful but I-as-player wasn't around for all of it?&nbsp; Or how do I count the 8-year one, where I was around for the start and the end but missed a couple of years in the middle?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9340292, member: 29398"] Given those parameters, I've been more successful than I'd originally thought. Ignoring proto-campaigns that fizzled after just a couple of sessions (usually a new-to-it DM quickly realizing that playing is better) and the one still in progress, I've been in as player: Short (4-month) intended-to-be-sandbox campaign that ended after 1 completed adventure Long (10-year) sandbox campaign that ended when a) the system collapsed due to level and b) the DM burned out Long (8-year) partly-sandbox campaign that ended when RL got in the way and the DM ran out of players Long (10-ish year) sandbox campaign that I joined and left a few times while in progress (RL time constraints) Long-ish (3 year) sandbox campaign that I left fairly early (didn't see eye to eye with the DM) Long (11 year) sandbox campaign that I left while in progress (RL time constraints) So of those, I was there for the end of the first three and had left before the end of the other three. In both cases listed as "RL time constraints", the main problem was too many games, too few nights in the week. I don't know how the campaigns ended that I left part-way along. And that brings up another variable that the poll doesn't - and can't, really - account for: that oftentimes a long campaign will outlast many of its players, who come and go as the campaign rolls along. Does it count as an unfinished campaign if the campaign itself was successful but I-as-player wasn't around for all of it? Or how do I count the 8-year one, where I was around for the start and the end but missed a couple of years in the middle? [/QUOTE]

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