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<blockquote data-quote="The_Warlock" data-source="post: 4698060" data-attributes="member: 21215">Thirteen Years, playing 5 to 8 hours a week, with DM downtime yearly from just before Christmas to end of January so I could look at all the hooks the PCs were on and make a framework for the coming year. Just playing at the table, not counting time I spent each week prepping stuff, or my annual prep, hmm, the calculator is telling me...3384 hours. Well, darn.It began as a dungeoncrawl with opportunities for different sorts of adventures, and turned into a quest to stop a horrible prophecy which killed a god, and shattered the world's timeline. It started in a mix of 2nd and 1st ed, transfered to 3E, then to a home rewrite of 3.x.I had great players, crazy players, irksome players, but in the end, players who had fun and stepped up to the challenges. Two characters survived from the beginning of the run to it's close. Approximately 30 characters died over the 13 years, with only 4 character deaths in the last three years, one a self sacrifice by a paladin who wouldn't let anyone else let their soul be snuffed utterly out of existence.I've played in many campaigns that have lasted 2 years or so (D&amp;D, Traveller, RIFTS [never again]), but most petered out as the GM either lost interest in the campaign, burned out, or changed the scope of the run so much that the players were no longer interested.Unfortunately, I usually get tasked to DM, which leaves very little time to play.Going forward, I'm probably going to stay to shorter arcs for a while, at least until I stumble upon something that makes me want to start a new epic campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The_Warlock, post: 4698060, member: 21215"] Thirteen Years, playing 5 to 8 hours a week, with DM downtime yearly from just before Christmas to end of January so I could look at all the hooks the PCs were on and make a framework for the coming year. Just playing at the table, not counting time I spent each week prepping stuff, or my annual prep, hmm, the calculator is telling me...3384 hours. Well, darn. It began as a dungeoncrawl with opportunities for different sorts of adventures, and turned into a quest to stop a horrible prophecy which killed a god, and shattered the world's timeline. It started in a mix of 2nd and 1st ed, transfered to 3E, then to a home rewrite of 3.x. I had great players, crazy players, irksome players, but in the end, players who had fun and stepped up to the challenges. Two characters survived from the beginning of the run to it's close. Approximately 30 characters died over the 13 years, with only 4 character deaths in the last three years, one a self sacrifice by a paladin who wouldn't let anyone else let their soul be snuffed utterly out of existence. I've played in many campaigns that have lasted 2 years or so (D&D, Traveller, RIFTS [[B][I]never again[/I][/B]]), but most petered out as the GM either lost interest in the campaign, burned out, or changed the scope of the run so much that the players were no longer interested. Unfortunately, I usually get tasked to DM, which leaves very little time to play. Going forward, I'm probably going to stay to shorter arcs for a while, at least until I stumble upon something that makes me want to start a new epic campaign. [/QUOTE]

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