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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5263457" data-attributes="member: 3400">Well, then let's put a twist on it. Suppose there are two groups reporting about how long their campaigns last. Group A says 18 months. Group B says 7 years. What have you learned?It could be that group B sees their campaign more as a particular setting that characters adventure in for a while before the player brings in another character. It could aslo be that while group A games every weekend for 8 hours at a pop, group B plays the exact same campaign path but does so on alternate weeks for only 3 hours at a stretch. Again, what have you learned by asking the question how long a campaign lasts?Fact is, you can't necessarily tell the difference between what sort of campaign a group plays based on how long they say they've played them. So what difference does it really make what kind of campaign they say they have? I've been running a 3e campaign since 2002 with the same group of players and characters (minus some replacements) and all along the same continuity thread, and the characters have just hit 13th level. We just don't get to play it that often. And I played in a somewhat more setting-based one with mulitple characters, intermixing parties, but a single timeline for over 12 years. I'd call that just as much a campaign as the other one I've been running. What does it matter what the difference is when both can go on so long?</blockquote>