Longest Group – Day 25 D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop

This is day 25 of the of d20 Dark Ages’ D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge! Based off of the challenge’s prompts I will be sharing personal stories about my history with Dungeons & Dragons every day in February. You can hop to another participating blog by using the links at the end of the article or click here to see my previous answers.

Day 25: What is the longest running campaign or gaming group that you have been in?

I’ll tackle this as two separate questions, what’s the longest campaign I’ve been in and the group I’ve gamed with the longest.

My longest game was the Eberron game my friend Brian ran. It spanned three separate stories played out over the course of two years. We got to play groups on both sides of a war so we could piece together the story of a mad man manipulating political factions to end the world with a fantasy nuke. It was a one of a kind experience that demonstrated what a traditional role-playing game can achieve with a strong leader, even if in hindsight the game was more “railroady” than I would enjoy now. After talking to him years later the GM also fondly looks back, acknowledging that we created something special. Sadly, I still carry regret for not being a better player in that game; I was too passive and regularly left my friends hanging by flaking out, something that’s shaped my commitment to the games that I run.

If we’re defining a “gaming group” as the literal people sitting around a table, each group I’ve played with has lasted just about two years before things get shuffled around. But if we expand the scope a bit I’ve been gaming with my current circle of friends for four years. While we all bring something unique to the table we are united in our investment to regular and quality gaming. Again, this retrospective is making me count my blessings. Nat, Eliza, Megan, Charles, Reuben, Andrew, and Mackenzie have forced me to raise the bar on what I can expect out of imagination games many times. A trend I count on continuing for as many years as I can keep them around.

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