How old is your gaming group?

[jmucchiello]

I'm between groups. What am I supposed to vote?

My last group is still going and I was part of it from 1990 to 2007 so that was 17-18 years (I have no idea what month it was when I joined). And the group itself started in 1987 and is still going, last I heard.

 

[EnochSeven]

About to hit 2 years for me, although my group has been around for 4 or 5 years.

I'm pretty lucky; for the most part we are able to meet every week, which is so hard since we all have kids and jobs and all that stuff that gets in the way of regular gaming!

 

[Hussar]

I'm in the 1-5 year group as well. I'll admit I'm a bit surprised by the number of groups hitting over the decade mark. I wouldn't have thought it.

 

[Turbiales]

My group is in the 16-20 years zone. We have endured everything from AD&D, CoC, MERP/Rolemaster, Star Wars (d6/d20), Vampire, D&D 3Ed, L5R, 7th Sea, Stormbringer, and now Pathfinder.

 

[Redshirt]

One group in has been playing once a week for 6 years. Another once a month for about 10 years. The monthly group has changed a few players but both groups are friends who have been playing in some form with each other since 2e. I was just lucky enough to work with a couple of them and get invited to join in their fun.

 

[steeldragons]

Current game is only a few months old.

Prior to that...was a loooong time ago. A game in college that lasted, also a few months before we went on break...or graduated?...either way, it ended abruptly. Same group, for a year of so before that was in a super's game...Marvel-based as I recall.

My two longest running, were the two (while classes where in session) year college game and my original high school years group who ran 'round the calendar year (with multiple marathon weekends or random "overnighters"-like over Christmas breaks/holiday weekends) for over 2 years. Plus got together for a few one-shots the first year we all went to college when everyone was home on breaks...Damn, I loved those guys...stilli n touch with a few (not gaming, obviously) via facebook. What a good group.

Prior to that, it was a lot of mini-games with family friends intermittently, so one-shots/uncompleted adventures there.

BUT, for consecutive play, I have to say, never ran anything that went longer than a bit over two years.

I'm deprived..I know. hahaha. Let's change that! lol.

--SD

 

[Hussar]

Wow, what a pretty little distribution curve. I wonder how much it reflects the broader gaming community.

 

[Greylock]

I don't really know how to call it. If it's "the group" with an evolution of members, I'd call it about 7-8 years IIRC. The group has been through some permutations over this time period, with DMing transferring at times between one of three guys - alsih2o, Beale Knight, and Brutorz Bill - and the campaign and even ruleset & genre changing at times. Right now, there are three in the group who have been constant for many years, and two of us go back to the beginning. And in fact, if any of the "missing" members showed back up, they'd fit back in in no time.

That makes it 7 or 8 years. But... me and the DM, while I didn't game with him from the time I left town after high school to the time the above group got together, our gaming relationship goes back to high school. Call it about 31 years. AND - the above group was part of a constant progression of games from the one I was in with Beale Knight in high school.

So... I don't think it's too far off the mark to call it a 31 year group, even though I was on "sabbatical" for a good chunk of those years. In fact, back around the holidays, Beale caught up with a couple of the original group from high school and invited them over to have a hand in a game for a night, and like I say in my first paragraph, man, they fit right in as if they were never gone.

So, on that basis, I'm going to vote 31.

hth

 

[Starfox]

I voted 15-20 years. My "gaming group" is a circle of friends. Campaigns come and go, but members are generally picked from a group of around 20 people. Of course, people come and go from this "pool" of players, but in general it has remained pretty constant. The core of the group formed in University, but today only about half of us have an university background.

My current campaign had a major change of players some 4 years back, inviting 2 people from outside the usual circle. I could just as well have voted 1-5, but 15-20 seemed more impressive.

 

[howandwhy99]

You know, when I think about it our group is damned odd.