Very experienced groups?

[John Dallman]

During yesterday's gaming session, I wondered how many total years of experience the players and GM had. We ranged from 36 to 44 years, with a total of about 268-69 between the seven of us. I don't believe this can be any kind of record, but I'd be interested to know how far off the median it is?

 

[was]

My current group has only been together for about a year. I'd say the individual average is probably about 10 years of gaming experience.

 

[The Green Hermit]

The longest any of us have played has been 3 years, but there have been some pretty big gaps.

 

[Morrus]

Our current group has been together about 20 years I think. We all played long before this group met though. Total person years about 30x7 = 210 years? Ish? Some longer than 30 some less, but I don't know the exact numbers.

 

[prabe]

I'm in a group that's been playing since the late-nineties, though I only joined in the mid-aughts. I think all of us started in the early-eighties-ish.

My other groups are almost-two years old and about about-half-a-year old.

 

[Umbran]

Are you asking in term of person years together as the particular group, or sum total person years game experience?

 

[John Dallman]

Are you asking in term of person years together as the particular group, or sum total person years game experience?

Sum total of person-years. The group I was talking about has existed since the early 2000s, although all the participants have been role-playing since the 1970s or 1980s.

The idea of a group which had been together since the 1980s did not occur to me; I've never heard of one lasting that long, nor do I expect experienced players to participate in only one group.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Myself and 1 other player have been playing together for about 13 years. Another for about 12 years. The remaining 4 have been playing in our group for about a decade. So that’s 78 years just playing together in our group between the 7 of us. Myself and the other original member have about a decade more experience outside this group and another player has experience going back to the 80’s, so we’d probably have over 100 years of gaming between us all.

 

[Blue]

One group recently downsized 6 (5 players + DM) based around regular attendance, and I have the most, playing for 38-39 years, with the next at least a decade less. I'd estimate <150 people years total.

The other group I've known mostly since college, say around 220-240 years total experience.

Dang. You think we'd be good at it or something.

 

[pemerton]

A group of 6, person-years of around 200 or so.