How old is your gaming group?

[Mort]

I'm sure this has been questioned before, but I couldn't find it with a quick search. Just curious how long people on ENWorld have been with their current groups. To clarify, turnaround is ok as long as the "group" itself lives on (If you consider it "the same group" than it's ongoing). Full disclosure - this is a public poll.

My current group has been going for 11 years we tend to relatively long campaigns: 1 DM'd 3e-3.5 from 1st-21st level, Then I actually got to be a player (which lasted through 11th) and now I'm DMing 4e (currently at 4th level, 2nd attempt at a campaign, players wanted to start at 1st again after some misfires with characters).

 

[Jeff Wilder]

10 years. I joined a group after the release of D&D 3E, and it's still the same group, with a lot of evolution, of course. Several of that original group and its immediate offshoots are much more casual gamers, now.

My housemate and I have been gaming together for 17 years or so, starting in college and continuing through my re-locations to California, and then his a year or two later.

 

[Treebore]

10 years, 3 years, 3 years, 2 years, 8 months, and 4 weeks. My one 3 year becomes 4 in march. The other turns 4 in October.

 

[Zil]

Only 3 years for the current group (playing Pathfinder). Before that, the previous group lasted 27 years although there was much attrition over the years due mostly to people moving away. There was the occasional recruitment of new members who also tended to eventually move away. The group effectively died a few months after the 4E announcement (dropping down to 2 members).

Interestingly enough, some members of the old group that moved away years ago are getting together to start playing again in a different city (using the Pathfinder rules). Previously they had only played 1st or 2nd edition and that not since the late 80s or early 90s.

 

[Ahnehnois]

My group has had a very fluid membership. It existed before I joined, but various people moved on, and now I'm the senior member. The group of people I'm playing with right now has been together on and off for probably ten years.

 

[Umbran]

The current group, as a group, has been together for less than a year.

However, I've had experience playing with the various people for longer than that - in a couple of cases over 15 years.

 

[kitsune9]

My current group is with people whom I've mostly known since I moved to the SF Bay Area so it defintely fits in the 6-10 year range.

 

[Aluvial]

I have the same group for 21 years now... (but I can't pick that in the poll...)

Aluvial

 

[coyote6]

Multiple groups: one is 20-odd years old, another is about 6 years old, and the other is 2.

PS: the poll is missing an option -- 21-24 years old.

 

[Stormonu]

I'm on somewhere around my seventh major group (playing 3E, Vampire and L5R nowadays), my current group I've been gaming with for about 3 years now.

My longest running group was back in my 2E days; we played for 6 years before I moved about a bit and when we got back a few years later and played for another 6 years before we finally went our separate ways.