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

[Kurashu]

Five months. Then my halfing rouge was thrown into a 60ft pit by a troll and SPLAT. He was fun for a while. That was about the time that campaign started to die off anyways.


Actually...my other long running character lasted five months too. That was the first campaign our group actually finished...sort of. We didn't know how to kill the lich. Not enough ranks in Know(religion) for someone to say "HEY! We gotta smash his lich box."

 

[chakken98]

Currently this longest running PC I have is my Gestalt Necromancer. Started the campigian over 2 years ago at level 7 and currently I just reached level 20 and I'm still going. Its a rad campigian that i've died 2 twice and was brought back. so I should be level 22...lol...

 

[painandgreed]

Probably about 3 years in 1E AD&D. Elven fighter 7/magic-user 9 from the weekly Wed night game in College. DM was pretty XP and magic stingy and I had a set of Chain mail +1, a ring of spell storing (Conjure Earth Elemental & Feign Death), Quall's feather token: sword (hidden in boot), and two magic swords for my total magic treasure. Of course the two swords were almost minor artifacts as well as major plot points. Only about two years were spent playing that charater full time, then we started playing lower level characters. It was all the same campaign with some people keeping their lower level alts, and I picked up my characters son who was an NPC up till that point (Elven Magic-user/assassin) for the next year while the old characters would come out of retirement for metaplot events happening in his campaign world (based on Harn) or to help out the "kids".

Last I talked to him, he was still running a campaign in the same game world several hundred years after our campaign time and my character was still alive and an NPC.

 

[Rabelais]

Comte Kraelian Liadon De Brise-Crete nom de guerre "Rabelais" 6 years. 2000-2006. It was the only character I played consistently with v3.0, then for a couple more years in 3.5. It was a LOOOOONG Campaign.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Olaf the Stout, the first character that I every created, is my longest running character. I haven't played him for about 5 years now though. I think I played him for about 3 solid years, once a fortnight. I have since only played him a few times since then though. He started at 1st level and got up to 17th level at last count.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I had the same character from 8th to the end of 10th grade, so maybe three years. In college we hopped systems like a frog on meth, so most characters didn't die they just got shoved aside. After that, gaming was in fits and starts with long gaps in between and no continuity.

 

[Harmon]

One of my longest running characters was Granite (in Champions), I started playing him in the early to mid '80s. When I switched from one group to another he took a name change to Asphalt. He wasn't played for a few years but was revived with the advent of Mutants and Masterminds. I love the character, acts really stupid, but is very intelligent.

Currently my D&D wizard, and Arcane Order member Alran Foreguard (his familiar's name is Harmon) was made May 5th, 2001 at third level. He has survived to ten levels. Our GM is taking our advancement rather slow so that he can get through all the campaigns he wants us to get through.

Robin Cor was a wizard I made while playing AD&D waaaayyyy back before I made the jump to Champions. He made it from 1st to about 9th or so, in the mid part of the '80s he transcended the bonds of D&D to a game similar to Ruin Quest (our group created the system over the course of many years) then disappeared until the '90s when he came back as an NPC in a long running GURPs campaign.

I love characters that last years.

My second gaming group had a GM that asked you to make a new character every weekend, whether the prior campaign was done or whatever made no matter. I always thought I should make characters for him on a white board. I am thankful to the gods of fate or what ever that he introduced me to this group and got the hell out of my life (for more reasons then just making the characters).

 

[The_Universe]

d6 Star Wars. 1 PC, almost continuously, from the spring of 1996 to the fall of 2000. Second place goes to another d6 Star Wars PC - he was in use from the fall of '96 to the spring of 2000. Since then, it's mostly been GMing.

 

[thorian]

I've got 2 long-lived characters.

15 years: I've played Thorian, a psion, since 1992, a little after the Complete Psionics came out. Thorian is presently 25th level.
13 years: The other character is a Percival, a paladin/wizard of Mystra. I've played him since 1994. He's now 16th level.

Both campaigns are going strong with most of the same original players.

 

[Shieldhaven]

Tabletop, RL years: January 2004 to present. This character is an 8th level human warmain, having started at 1st level. The campaign runs 6-10 times per year.

Tabletop, number of sessions: Okay, I don't have the session count, but probably 35-40 sessions over something less than two years. This character was a human sohei in a Romance of the Three Kingdoms campaign. He went from 1st to 12th-ish (?).

LARP, both years and number of events: 8 years and change (July '98 to September '06), probably more than 60 events. This is easily the most memorable and meaningful character I've ever played in any game. By the end of his career, he was probably in the top five most powerful characters in the campaign's entire history.

MMO, years and levels: human priest, World of Warcraft, somewhere over two years.
MMO, hours logged: night elf rogue, World of Warcraft; /played indicates something close to 23 days.

Haven