One-Shots or Campaigns?

I prefer to GM and plan for 9 month - 2 yr campaigns. Real life sometimes throws a monkey-wrench into the works but that's the usual plan.
 

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Campaigns are a series of one-shots.

And most of my campaigns are just single, really LONG shots. ;)

By that I mean that my campaign exists for 1 group of PC's, 1 group of characters, and once they succeed or fail, we move onto the next world, galaxy, universe, etc.
 

While I love both, I generally play campaigns.

Well, that is to say, I generally RUN campaigns. I only play at conventions, so that means I generally play one-shots (and the Living Arcanis campaign).
 

I've played mostly campaigns. However, there's been one or two one shots tossed in for good measure. Campaigns are more fun; but one shots are good when you're a little worse for wear from the BBEG and your DM's overarcing plots.
 


Campaigns.

One shots are occasionally nice, but they don't have room in which to grow or develop (either as a character or in levels).
 




I think overall, I've played in as many or more one-shots than campaigns, though not by preference.

For the first few years I was playing D&D (just occasionally, off and on) with my high school buddies, they just ran one-shot sessions or short adventures of a few sessions in length (the longest 'campaign' I played in at the time was probably 5-6 sessions, if even that long). This was with 2nd Edition AD&D mostly, I only got to play about two sessions or so of 3rd Edition with my friends.

After I had to move to Arizona with my parents, I came across WebRPG and then OpenRPG, starting to use the latter and join campaigns. I finally got to start playing in prolonged campaigns, starting with Emiricol's Bandora homebrew D&D campaign. Since then I've played in a handful of year-long, half-year, and two-year campaigns (maybe one three-year campaign). I've also played in a few one-shots, since various campaigns I joined had died shortly after starting (the DMs never really gave a reason in most cases; I and the other online players simply lost contact with them at some point).

Mainly I've been DMing though. Only a single one-shot, and about six campaigns I think (two or three of which have just been half a year or less, aborted when scheduling problems with the players became too numerous); technically one was just me substitute-DMing for Emiricol, in the For More Than Glory campaign of T13K, briefly. And technically, I think the D20 Modern: Agents of Psi campaign I started last week counts as my seventh campaign, though I dunno how long it'll stay together (playing with folks at the local gamestore, whom I'm not especially familiar with yet).
 

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