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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runesong42" data-source="post: 2170820" data-attributes="member: 10578">"Campaigning" has proven most impractical over the years.Back in the day, and I mean 15 or so years ago, it was common to play once or twice a week, more in the summer, and we used the same characters and changed DM's so that the adventures we ran would never end and that was great.  I played the same character through to level 36 over the course of a few years, and I used the old "dual-classing" rules to keep her alive.  Mage 20/Cleric 16. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I was miffed that I never got over my cap so I could fling spells, but it got to the point that I didn't care about gaining xp so I cast my wizard spells anyway.The last serious campaigns I ran or played in generally lasted about a year.  Again, this was due to "real-life" interference, though me and my DM lived together and we had 2 campaigns on the go.  We had a falling out, so we never really 'finished' either -- my campaign ran to level 7, but was very heavy on sicla interaction and, frankly, my player just didn't care about xp. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The one I RAN in was "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" and it took us forever but I got to level 16 running two characters and three NPC's.Nowadays, my cuurent gaming group is breaking up; they're all moving away for the summer, and some permanently.  I stared a 'campaign' back in September and we played anywhere from once a week to once a month.  Were in April now, and I'm struggling to get it wrapped up before they leave, which will be around mid-May.So, I guess a "typical" campaign can last as long as you feel that the story still has steam and the players are readily available. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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