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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crust" data-source="post: 2939403" data-attributes="member: 22330">I usually spend about 2-4 years on a campaign before retiring it.  I couldn't begin to imagine how many sessions we play.The first campaign I ever ran began in the fall of 1996 with high school friends.  It was Dragonlance.  We started at 5th level and played through various modules, some of my own design, played in Ravenloft for a time, and ended soon after finishing the Rod of Seven Parts box in the spring of 1998.  Many players quit or got bored, resulting in the dissolving of the group (but not the friendships  <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=";)" /> ).  PCs from that campaign would reappear in future campaigns as important personalities and mentors.I lucked out in the fall of 1997, as my neighbor in college played D&D and had a group who he played with.  The all knew Dragonlance, so I had my chance to run the Classics campaign.  It was great.  I was running the back-home DL campaign and the college Classic campaign.  Classics lasted one year.  We made it through Silvanesti with one group and past Icewall Glacier with the other.  I moved and grew apart from that group (and bored with DL, as I just found FR through those guys).Fall of 1998 I met some guys in college who gamed and I soon had my new (and current) gaming group.  It was my first stab at Forgotten Realms, and we've been playing ever since.  Our first campaign started PCs at level 2 with Beneath the Twisted Tower.  We soon moved into Night Below, and by the fall of 2000, they had uncovered an ancient dwarven burial tomb, and while plundering the tomb, awakened a drow lich.  TPK.  So ended our last 2E campaign.Winter of 2001 we started 3.0.  Our first stab was a bit awkward, and after four months, I took a break from DMing.  I would take PCs and NPCs from this short campaign and slip them into the next one.Winter of 2002 I had the itch, and I got the gang back together.  That campaign started at level 2 and ended in March 2006 at party level 28.We just started Age of Worms in April.  PCs started at level 2.  I intend to take this campaign into epic levels once again.</blockquote>

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