What is the longest you've ever played a single PC?

[Owen K.C. Stephens]

Let's see,

I believe I first played Solnira, a Czech (then Polish) Supergirl-type character, in 1989. I may be off by a year or three. I think I last actively player her in 2000. So that'd be 11 years. Of course there were characters in play before her and I played other characters in that campaign after her. I think that superhero world can claim at least 18 years of activity.

I ran the Sovereign Kingdoms (2e D&D game with more house rules than core rules) for a solid 10 years, and it got run at least a year after that by a DM who took over when I moved to Seattle. A few characters were active pretty much throughout. At least one character went from 1st to 19th.

Sometimes it's more about number of sessions than days from first to last game, though. I have an 18th level paladin who started as a 5th level character 18 months ago. But that game has been played an average of 3 times a month for that whole time, so that's 54 game sessions, with most sessions lasting 7 to 9 hours.

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[billd91]

I've still got characters I started over 20 years ago. The campaigns I play them in just aren't very active right now (in favor of other interesting campaigns). That's the trouble with having so many gaming ideas to play out. It takes a while to get back to hard core playing with some old favorites.

 

[Piratecat]

In Sagiro's campaign, I've played Dranko steadily for over 12 years now. He's hit 17th level.

 

[IanB]

I have a character that is in theory active that I created on Feb. 2 1996 (it says so on the character sheet!)

In practice, though, that campaign's sessions have dwindled to a trickle, and we haven't gone back in a couple years, so I think it probably counts as defunct at this point. It is basically a casualty of how long it takes to write Epic-level badguys vs. how long they take to die.

 

[DemonKing]

I think around 5 years.

Either my Dark Sun dwarf gladiator Derdoldranxildrandrolak "the Lofty" (the others just called him Derdoldran or "Stumpy") or a 1e cleric back in the day. I also had a necromancer somewhere along the line in an evil campaign that lasted a few years.

 

[Primitive Screwhead]

My longest running PC is a Bounty Hunter in WEG Star Wars, I joined the campaign late... it had been running for two years before I showed up.. and continued solid for about 4 years before our group got split up courtesy of the military.

Since then the character has done cameo's in the original DM's game and there is still an intent for the game to continue if we can ever get at least 4 players back into the same state at the same time... but since its been almost a decade since then

Level-wise is hard to guage, as WEG doesn't do levels... but the character had gotten to the point that I was planning on finding Boba Fett and challenging him to a old fashioned quick-draw contest... I figured I *might* be able to beat him with a Heavy Blaster skill of 14 dice.. would have been higher but I got sidetracked with needing to pilot starships for some reason...

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I think the longest game I ever played was my first Third Edition game, a Planescape campaign where my sorcerer/alienist began at 6th level (I joined the game after it had been running for a while) and made it all the way to 20th over about a year and a half. The game itself ran for over two years.

 

[Graybeard]

I have an elven sorcerer that I have been playing off and on for about 7 years now. Started at 1st level and he is now 13th. We don't play that campaign all the time though. We switch off and on between 3 different campaigns.

 

[wildstarsreach]

I hear people mention campaigns they've played in that span decades, and I was wondering how people do it. The longest I ever played a single PC was a fighter that took 2 years to get from level 4 to 20.

What's the longest you've ever played a PC, and what levels did you span? Alternately, what's the longest continuous campaign you've ever played in, and how many characters have you played in it?

I'd say 16 years going from 1st to 33th with one of my first wizards. 1980 to 1995. Yes, this did get a little Monte Hallish but eventually we were playing competing rulers after 18th level who only got to adventure during a yearly rulers vacation. It was great but it wasn't for everyone.

 

[jdrakeh]

Two and a half years, once a week, then the campaign came to an end. In that whole time, I think I gained four levels (started at Level 3 and, IIRC, was Level 7 at the end of the campaign).