Longest campaign you've run/played in?

[Darius101]

Longest 3e campaign was the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil at just over a year and a half ....18 + months.

Longest Traveller campaign is still ongoing at 20+yrs

Longest 1e campaign was 8 years then college interfered with it. Now looks like we will never return to that game again. We have discussed writing the campaign as a series of three books.

Longest 2e campaign was Return to the Tomb of Horrors at 6 months two weeks....we all perished or were driven mad.

There are more but those stand out at the moment.
Darius

 

[Ashrum the Black]

Hmm ... the longest finished campaign was a year and a half shadow run campaign. But we're creeping up on the two year mark for my current campaign and things are going strong still. We've got the characters hitting the 13th to 14th level mark and they're really starting to enjoy things.

I think its because they're finally starting to get items that are powerful, but not so inherently eveil that they need to be destroyed out of hand. (or at least so they think)

Edit: Me no spell good.

 

[VorpalBunny]

10 years

We just hit 10 years and just past the "half-way mark" in my Forgotten Realms campaign. I started it in 1993 using the 2e rules. We'd go 6-8 months, then switch to something else for a few months to avoid burning out on the setting.

 

[Deadguy]

Longest campaign ever: I am still playing in the Ars Magica campaign that started in Jan 1992, so now in its 11th year.

Longest D&D campaign? About 18 months. There was always something about the scaling of the game that meant that a game that advanced fast enough for players to enjoy the week-by-week play seemed to slip out of control longer term. Maybe just the function of the players, of course.

 

[pawned79]

I have a friend in Birmingham Alabama that has been playing the same first edition campaign with mostly the same friends that started when they were in college about one year after Dungeons and Dragons came out.

Patrick

 

[Arnwyn]

My current campaign is just passing its 5th year, playing once every 2 weeks like clockwork. We don't stop our campaigns until there's a TPK.

 

[the Jester]

My old campaign world, with many groups interlocking into one huge campaign, ran from 1981 until Tharizdun ate nature in about, oh, 1997.

The current campaign world, also with many groups all tied together into one huge campaign (one pc from the very first game is still around), runs 1997 to present.

They're actually interconnected, and one pc in the current group I'm running has traveled back in time to the old multiverse to help create the new one.

 

[barsoomcore]

My friend and I ran an AD&D campaign that lasted from 1984 until 1992 -- 8 years. It was a single story arc, with two characters who were part of the original group still alive for the final showdown against the big bad (who turned out to have been behind the baby-napping in the very first adventure).

We played once a week without breaks for that whole time. Entirely homebrew, VERY low magic, highest character level at the end was, I think, 10th.

It was a LOT of fun. One of the great memories I have. Heck, it's one of my proudest achievements, that campaign. It kicked rear end, if I do say so myself. I'll still run into folks who used to play in it (it was run through the University D&D club so it wasn't a group of friends -- lots of people I only knew through that campaign), and they always want to talk about how much fun that campaign was. Which is a very nice feeling.

Barsoom's been running since late 1999, I think. So we're coming up on four years now.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Not sure exactly how long the Dragon Mountain Campaign lasted, but I believe I was in it for at least 6 years, playing every now and then for a weekend at a time. Wonderful campaign, and would have been even better if we hadn't all been killed by the Dragon in question at the end of it...

 

[drothgery]

Hmm... four years as a tabletop game that spawned two parallel email games for three years, with the two email games collapsed into one early last year.

I think that counts as 4+ years.