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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theredrobedwizard" data-source="post: 5814780" data-attributes="member: 21340">I came across something which I percieved as peculiar and thought I should ask the gaming community at large about it.A coworker and I often talk about RPGs in our downtime. I regale him with stories of my weekly Pathfinder and L5R games, he tells me tales of his AD&D group. I had been operating under the assumption that these were tales of a bygone age and he'd been a lapsed gamer for some time. You can imagine my slight shock, then, when he invited me to play with his group last week. I, of course, jumped at the opportunity to see a real-live group playing AD&D 1E.Upon my arrival, I got to talk to some of the other players. That's when the real shock set in. They hadn't just been playing the same version of D&D with the same group since 1985, 3 out of the 6 players were still playing with the same *characters*. Not the original characters' descendents, not reimaginings or rehashes, the actual original characters. (The newest player had joined in 1999 and was still playing his original character as well.)To say that I was incredulous is a bit of an understatement. I asked what level they were. The highest level character was level 15. I asked how many times he'd been resurrected. Twice. I asked if they only played every few months. Once a week since 1998, barring a few weeks when people had been sick or on a family vacation. Prior to 1998, they played twice per week.I commend them for their tenacity and dedication to one setting and one character, but admited that I really didn't understand how it was possible to play a character for that long without them permanently dying or players moving away or everyone just getting bored. They just shrugged and said that's how it'd always been.Every week since 1985, they lugged three bookbags worth of books per player over to the DM's house. Every week, they've played the same character. 2000+ sessions of the same character.I guess my question is this: What's the longest you've ever played one character? My longest played character was about 14 months, playing once per week. The fact that she lasted that long without me getting bored and making a new character was (I thought) an amazing feat.-TRRW</blockquote>

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