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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9683221" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>30 years ago, June 1995... amongst the game groups I knew...</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">AY was on year 5... but 3 of his starting 4 had been replaced after they moved out of state. Ship of Theseus issues?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RCM was running two campaigns, both under 6 months.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I was running 3 campaigns, 1 Traveller, 1 Pendragon, and 1 Prime Directive, WFRP had ended after most of a year. Pendragon was in year 2 of eventually 3. traveller ran about 8 months, but was just starting as we'd just moved.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RR was running a campaign of about 4 months.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">D was running AD&D 2. Her players quit after about 6 months because she railroaded them.¹</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">EEP wasn't running anything at that point. But he was playing in 3 people's campaigns, including my Pendragon. He was just off a 6 month campaign and about to move in with another friend and run a game for them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">DK was running a D&D campaign that lasted a few months on, but was a month or two old at that point. He was playing in my Pendragon campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">TdF was running C&S in a 2 year long campaign, which ended shortly.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">SW was running C&S, as well. No clue if it was long or short term, but it was common.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">GMcC was in a group just finishing another 2-3 year campaign; I don't know who the GM was, but I knew all the players.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">TdF was running an AD&D 1e campaign; I didn't know any of his players, but he was running his own setting for about year 15, tho' that particular group of players was only a few years.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">DH had just left his wife and his 2 year D&D campaign, and gone AWOL. (Civil service, not military.) Later interactions imply he quit gaming, too, at that point.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RK was running a GURPS campaign, doing the Battletech setting. That was the middle of an about a year long one 8 hour every other week.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One later coworker of mine, whose name escapes me, was just ending a campaign from >3 years prior. We talked about it at 3 Barons' Faire.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Oh, and PS was still running his 15 year old campaign, AD&D 1, and a 10 year old Traveller campaign. I know that their campaigns continued at least 2 years further.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">JZ was running a 25 player Traveller campaign, but was wrapping it up after several years</li> </ul><p>9 multi year campaigns (3 or 4 over a decade), of 21 I was aware of. (I had to work to recall for specific timeframe...) so, not uncommon in Anchorage. Almost half.</p><p>now, I'll note that there were over 300 people on a local mail list for the convention... and 1/3 were GMs. (I helped the organizer set up his DB.) But no clue on how many of that hundred GMs were running longer form games.</p><p></p><p>-=-=-=-=-</p><p>1: I'd play in a campaign she ran at my place the following year... and at one point, we, the party, being my wife, myself, D's then BF, voted to retreat from the dungeon do heal. "Your god demands you go into that portal, paladin!"</p><p>"I guess I'm just a fighter now" I replied.</p><p>Everyone quit the campaign. A few weeks later, D and her BF broke up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9683221, member: 6779310"] 30 years ago, June 1995... amongst the game groups I knew... [LIST] [*]AY was on year 5... but 3 of his starting 4 had been replaced after they moved out of state. Ship of Theseus issues? [*]RCM was running two campaigns, both under 6 months. [*]I was running 3 campaigns, 1 Traveller, 1 Pendragon, and 1 Prime Directive, WFRP had ended after most of a year. Pendragon was in year 2 of eventually 3. traveller ran about 8 months, but was just starting as we'd just moved. [*]RR was running a campaign of about 4 months. [*]D was running AD&D 2. Her players quit after about 6 months because she railroaded them.¹ [*]EEP wasn't running anything at that point. But he was playing in 3 people's campaigns, including my Pendragon. He was just off a 6 month campaign and about to move in with another friend and run a game for them. [*]DK was running a D&D campaign that lasted a few months on, but was a month or two old at that point. He was playing in my Pendragon campaign. [*]TdF was running C&S in a 2 year long campaign, which ended shortly. [*]SW was running C&S, as well. No clue if it was long or short term, but it was common. [*]GMcC was in a group just finishing another 2-3 year campaign; I don't know who the GM was, but I knew all the players. [*]TdF was running an AD&D 1e campaign; I didn't know any of his players, but he was running his own setting for about year 15, tho' that particular group of players was only a few years. [*]DH had just left his wife and his 2 year D&D campaign, and gone AWOL. (Civil service, not military.) Later interactions imply he quit gaming, too, at that point. [*]RK was running a GURPS campaign, doing the Battletech setting. That was the middle of an about a year long one 8 hour every other week. [*]One later coworker of mine, whose name escapes me, was just ending a campaign from >3 years prior. We talked about it at 3 Barons' Faire. [*]Oh, and PS was still running his 15 year old campaign, AD&D 1, and a 10 year old Traveller campaign. I know that their campaigns continued at least 2 years further. [*]JZ was running a 25 player Traveller campaign, but was wrapping it up after several years [/LIST] 9 multi year campaigns (3 or 4 over a decade), of 21 I was aware of. (I had to work to recall for specific timeframe...) so, not uncommon in Anchorage. Almost half. now, I'll note that there were over 300 people on a local mail list for the convention... and 1/3 were GMs. (I helped the organizer set up his DB.) But no clue on how many of that hundred GMs were running longer form games. -=-=-=-=- 1: I'd play in a campaign she ran at my place the following year... and at one point, we, the party, being my wife, myself, D's then BF, voted to retreat from the dungeon do heal. "Your god demands you go into that portal, paladin!" "I guess I'm just a fighter now" I replied. Everyone quit the campaign. A few weeks later, D and her BF broke up. [/QUOTE]
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