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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Izerath" data-source="post: 2171863" data-attributes="member: 6743">Guess I am still old school.....Well, to me, a campaign is one major story arc, with a few smaller subplots intertwined, usually rotating around 2-3 of the PCs and getiing the others tied into it. I DM for a group of 8, so XP spreads a little thinner occassionally.That said, I have been running the Shackled City Adventure path for something like 3.5 years (give or take). And the group just finished Zenith Trajectory! (If you're wondering, the PCs are 8th-9th level.)30 days after the first adventure came out, I knew I wanted to run it. I ran my own living dungeon scenario first to set the stage and get the players involved, (which itself took nearly 12 months!) then I moved them to Cauldron.With some near TPKs (including the infamous Kazmojen finale) and some 5 character deaths, there are still some of the original PCs lingering. Players have arrived and left (mostly arrived tho - I started this thing with 4 players!) and the story continues to  develop. The dwarves have returned to the Malachite Hold. They wonder where their hero and heir to the throne Zenith Splintershield has gone. The gnomes too have the spark of hope after Jzadirune was cleansed. They too seek to resettle their enclave. Vhalantru schemes, Celeste ponders her next move and the Demon Skar awaits. My last session was so intense that it ended at 1AM. To put this in perspective, we game once every two weeks on Wed for 4 hours (7-11).  Since this past Wed, I have had calls from nearly every player expressing that they can't wait for the next session. Not a peep about it running late. And a couple in my group had a babysitter to be concerned about!So - how long is a campaign? It's one story. How long should it last? As long as everyone is having fun. Should we go epic? I don't know - ask me in another 3 years.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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