We are interested to know how long campaigns last. Some fizzle after a single session of character generation (count as "1"). Others go for a few months, then are set aside "temporarily" while another game is played or the DM is away having a baby or something. And some last for years and years without interruption.

In answering, please include single session fizzles, and if you're still playing the same campaign, just count how many sessions you've done so far. Of course, you may have just had a three session one, and a ten year one just before that, or vice versa, so may be tempted to change your vote; but if enough people vote then all these oddities will wash out, so answer your last campaign only.

People can only see the results if they have themselves voted (to avoid the sight of the longest bar priming anyone's answer). The poll will be open indefinitely.

My latest campaign is still ongoing. We started years ago and with playing biweekly, sometimes missing one here and there because of holidays and whatnot the should be at least 20 / year.

A good guess we've probably broke 100 sessions

My last one got shelved due to the pandemic, but it was going fine until then.

The groups I've gamed in tended to make decent progress and come to a natural place for a break within 6 to 10 sessions. Sometimes everyone would still be enthused and we'd continue the same campaign for another arc. Sometimes we'd switch to something else for an arc, perhaps even with a different GM. If so, we'd decide if the abandoned story was one we wanted to come back to later, or if it was permanently shelved.

I'm presently in an extremely long running bi-monthly campaign (100+ sessions), but the most recent off-week attempt died in 3 sessions, another in about 10, and one in about 25.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron on July 04, 2021, 05:56:26 AM
We are interested to know  ...

Is that the royal "we", or ... which Kyle are we talking to right now?

I play mostly online and its hard....HARD to find great players so I run a lot of 1 shots until I cobble together enough people for a full game.

Then my games tend to last years. The last one lasted 3 years 4 months. No clue how many sessions that was as we often play multiple times a week if everyone can play.

I also tend to play with Europeans a lot! As I am retired and mostly play weekdays during the late morning into mid afternoon EST.

I answered 1-5. My last campaign was a Starfinder game that made it to session 2, and then Covid restriction hit and we stopped gaming in person.
I don't count as a player, since I dipped in and out of playing online in my Brother's Pathfinder campaign because I really don't like playing RPGs online. The Campaign finished after... I think 5 years? with different people coming and going for participation.

My current one is weird, because it is a mix of 1.25 hour online sessions with an occasional in person session in the 8+ hours range.   We only went online because of scheduling conflicts (i.e. not Covid).

My usual campaigns (at least the last 3 or 4) typically run about 85 to 150 hours of playtime.  Most of those are in the 8+ hours range of sessions, but we typically think of a "session" as being morning session and afternoon session when we do that, which equates more to a typical session length.  Averages about 30 such "sessions" over two calendar years.

My DCC campaign has been running for 3+ years with 61 sessions played. We aspire to play every other Sunday afternoon for four hours, but with other obligations it averages out to about a session every three weeks. We originally were playing at my house, but with COVID switched to online play (FGU, Google Meet). Sometime in the near-future I am hoping to go to a hybrid system to accommodate my brother (who lives out of town) and one player with a 1 year-old.

I run my game sandbox style, so it has no defined end. I hope to keep playing it until I shuffle off this mortal coil.

I tend to have multiple campaigns ongoing, but I did just wrap 'for now' my Primeval Thule 5e campaign last Thursday after 46 sessions since Jan 2019. Primeval Thule Mini Six was 28 sessions to Nov 2020. Runelords was 123 sessions to September 2020. Current Faerun Adventures game is more of a milieu than a single campaign and I don't track sessions. Red Hand of Doom mini-campaign was 18 sessions to March 2020.

My (weekly) D&D 5th ed is just entering its third year. Luckily we managed to survive the lockdown by swapping to Discord/Roll20. Sadly we've lost our FtF meeting place, which is annoying so I guess we'll keep going on line for a while.
It's reaching a climax so I'll have to work out what to do after the PCs have succeed/failed at that.
Other games are mostly episodic 4-8 weekers that we come back to every few months.

Going on 7 years in current campaign.  My son is off to college soon, so I'm trying to wrap up the current arc, as I don't know when we'll be able to pick it back up.

My last one was 3, some introductory games for my son and his friends in a game I'm writing.  My longest would be somewhere between 400 and 500 - that's almost every Saturday for 8 years, then some more with decreasing frequency.

Last one was Mongoose Traveller 2e: 101 sessions before we switched GMs to play CoC for 8 before the TPK.  Took close to 3 years to get there.

Going to run session 102 in a couple of weeks.  We play 3-4 sessions/month.