Thread 96303809

What's the longest campaign you've ever played?

For me it's my Star Wars FFG game I run that is going on 103 session and ongoing.

I don't know the longest, but I've been running a dnd 5e/pathfinder 1e series of games for 6 years with very little breaks and we just had our final session.

One that petered out after like 7 years. I miss it.

A game of Tenra Bansho Zero done years ago.

It's also the only campaign I was able to finish that didn't just peter out.

I really hate how ass I am at scheduling and keeping campaigns running.

>>96303809 (OP)
I'm still new to actually playing games, so my longest is eight sessions.

>>96303809 (OP)
My first campaign was also the longest: 93 sessions over the course of 101 weeks. Cyberpunk RED that started because of the hype for the Edgerunners anime. After it stopped, we've been playing many other games and systems, mostly short mini-campaigns and one-shots.
Second longest is ~30-sessions-long Dark Heresy 1e campaign (different group).
Third longest is PF2e campaign composed of a ~20-session long quest to kill a vampire and ~5-session-long quest to kill a dragon I count them together because the PCs were the same (same group as the CPR one). Pic rel comes from that campaign, it's a Leshy familiar after too many Final Sacrifices (https://2e.aonprd.com/Spells.aspx?ID=689).

All were online so they may not count according to (you), but I've had fun.

>>96303809 (OP)
D&D 4e game that lasted for a year or so.

>>96303809 (OP)
Two years of weekly sessions playing pathfinder 1e around eight years ago. We took off for three weeks around christmas because a lot of my players traveled for the holidays. I haven't played a campaign lasting longer than five sessions without falling apart since.

The better part of five years. My very first roleplaying experience was in a basement at the hands of a bunch of middle aged men, playing Earthdawn in 1994 at the tender age of 7.

Nobody gave a shit beyond making the obvious allowances to the kid, just once every fortnight my uncle kidnapped me and we'd all go play pretend for as many hours as I could sit around for. In hindsight nobody cared wether I was there or not, but they showed me how it worked, filled me in on whatever I'd missed (usually a session or two) and gave me tips on how to play that seem obvious today.

"A bunch of middle aged men kept me in a basement for hours and taught me to 'roleplay'" normally ends with "and that's how I got molested" but it was one of the best gaming experiences in my life to date.

>>96303809 (OP)
My first time playing more than a one shot was playing D&D 5e, Curse of Strahd. We spent almost a year exactly playing that. It was really cool.
Since then I joined a D&D 3.5e table in 2022 and we've been playing the same ongoing campaign since then.
I joined with a lvl 12 Cleric who is now lvl 15.
There was a two month long hiatus somewhere but we do play at least once almost every week. We have even managed to squeeze two sessions in a week a couple of times.

>>96303809 (OP)
I ran a 1st ed D&D game for two years. Got them to level 20 in the end, they did the temple of elemental evil, slave lords and vault of the drow, then lots of homebrew, eventually settling their own lands on another continent and creating their own kingdom. Finally game consisted of them clearing out an ancient red dragon and all it's children from a distant mountain - the flying battle above an active volcano is still mentioned occasionally today. That was when I was in my teens in the 80s though, most games nowafay seem to consist of a single or a couple of sessions before someone mentions they have just read about a 'new game' and would like to play it next week. Seems players nowadays don't want to play long campaigns and develop characters they love anymore, they just want to play 'the latest thing' the publishers throw at them, hoppping from one game/setting to another like ADHD lemmings.

>>96303809 (OP)
Two years, I think? I like to swap settings, and my players like to swap characters. Big respect to those who keep it running for 5-10+ years tho, you guys impress me!

Going on 10 years now for a campaign that started in college. But we've had long breaks and even now we only play for a couple hours every few weeks when schedules align. Don't see it falling off anytime soon though since we are all good friends and patient.

Longest weekly campaign I ever ran lasted almost 4 years though and is perhaps the only campaign I've ever run start to finish with a satisfying conclusion for everyone and no dropouts.

>124 session Pathfinder campaign that went 1 to 20
>120 session 3.5e campaign
>easily 200+ session DnD 3.5 campaign that lasted 12 years
>my own DnD 3.5e campaign that lasted anywhere from 50 to 200 sessions I have no idea
>82 session Pathfinder campaign where they were pirates
>74 session Savage Worlds campaign in a steampunk setting
>40 session Savage Worlds campaign in an eberron style world
>38 session DnD 5e campaign I ran for levels 1 to 8
There are more but those are the longest ones.

>>96303809 (OP)
I never did super long campaigns, I think the longest was when we played Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green (plus a couple other scenarios for the 20 year time-skip) and that was... maybe 40 to 50 sessions, about a year.

>>96303809 (OP)
Hey! Mine was Star Wars, too. We played a campaign that ran all through highschool. When The Phantom Menace came out in our senior year, we went and saw it in the theatre I think 8 times.

>>96309798
Wow, that's impressive.

>>96309798
How do you keep a campaign going for 12 years? That's wild.

>>96304283
I smell you, cat betrayer.

>>96315503
Boomers with adult kids. And if someone quits the campaign then it keeps going anyway. Same core group of 4 people with some intermittent attendance here and there. One time we had 9 players. I literally have multiple groups for almost a decade. In a couple years I will have 3 groups that have lasted a decade. Kinda sucks cause it's hard to meet new people in the hobby but I couldn't give up any of them.

>>96310566
Thanks.

>>96315845
I suppose it's not that wild when you put it that way. We're a millennial/zoomer group but we've also kept a core group of 4 for almost a decade now, with others coming and going. We like to switch it up tho, 12 years with the one same campaign is pretty damn long.

Anyway I'm impressed.

>>96316328
Thanks. A decade is good too. Hoenstly if your groups made it 5 years then it'll probably continue almost indefinitely.

>>96318356
Sounds about right. I think they only thing that could break us up at this point is if someone has to move away from the city.

>>96303809 (OP)
My middle school friends and I had a game that lasted about 6 years, through high school. College ended it since two of us went away for school, and all of us got too busy anyway. IIRC, two of them started a new group, but I lost touch with them.

>>96303809 (OP)
>What's the longest campaign you've ever played?
If you mean GMed I can help

>>96303809 (OP)
I ran Rogue Trader for two years in the mid-2010's. By far the longest campaign I've ever been in.

>>96303809 (OP)
3.5e 4 Years
PF1e 2 years
3.5e D&D 10 years
BECMI 4 years

>>96303809 (OP)
I would have to think about it.
I've played with the same group for 30 years. I think most campaigns last 8ish years. But it's hard to be sure since we are often doing two or more different ones at the same time and sometimes they're paused and picked back up.

>>96335013
Sorry forgot >>96335013
>3.5e D&D 10 years
This one the longest went for 500-600 sessions in the very least the lads reached 40th

>>96335048
500-600 sessions is insane, damn