What Systems Have You Had Long Term Campaigns With?

[Dannyalcatraz]

I realize this community is probably D&D focused, but I'm curious what systems you've used for long term campaigns? Are there others you've bought and never played, though you may mine them for ideas? Is there something that I haven't given a fair shot that is your favorite system?

Off the top of my head...

I’ve been in long-term campigns with these systems:

Basic D&D
AD&D, a.k.a. 1Ed
2Ed
3Ed
3.5Ed
4Ed
Champions/HERO
HERO 4th
HERO 5th
Classic Traveller
RIFTS/Heroes Unlimited
GURPS 2Ed
Stormbringer
Paranoia

Games I own and haven’t used for a long term campaign or not at all are too many to name. But some highlights:

Space:1889
The Fantasy Trip
Deadlands
Deadlands D20
Prime Directive
Brave New World
Aberrant
Silver Age Sentinels
Savage Worlds
Torg
ACE
Werewolf
Vampire the Masquerade
Mage: the Awakening
Changeling
Mummy
Scion: Hero
Scion: God
Mutants & Masterminds 1 & 2
Midnight 2nd
True20
FantasyCraft
Spycraft
Arcana Unearthed/Arcana Evolved
Pathfinder
Earthdawn
Shadowrun
Alternity
Star Wars D20
D20 Modern
D20 Future
Numenara/Cypher System
Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu D20
Godlike
Spaceship Zero

 

[Blue]

I've been in long term campaigns with:

D&D
* AD&D 2nd (10+ years same campaign)
* D&D 3.0/3.5 (10+ years of play across a campaign and it's sequel, plus other campaigns including coverting characters up from that AD&D campaign)
* D&D 5e (Several campaigns that end up being 4 years total, a few over 6 month each)

Hero System
* 2nd Ed to Big Blue Book to 5th to FRed (10+ years same campaign, with some breaks that aren't including in the total)

* 13th Age (4.5 year campaign)

 

[Blue]

I’ve been in long-term campigns with these systems:
...
Paranoia

How the heck do you do a long term Paranoia campaign? I've usually gone though more than half my closes by the end of a first adventure, if not the first session.

 

[pogre]

Most versions of D&D and WFRP several times. Ars Magica once for 10 months.

We've tried dozens of other systems with the intentions of running long term campaigns but just has not been sustainable.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

How the heck do you do a long term Paranoia campaign? I've usually gone though more than half my closes by the end of a first adventure, if not the first session.

Relatively speaking, of course.

The funny thing about it, it was one of the earliest groups I played in, and they didn’t quite get the game. The party was more like you’d find in a typical “teamwork über alles” D&D group- check everything, touch nothing unti you’re sure it’s safe, and approach every encounter with your lessons from Sun Tsu fully in mind. The GM had to WORK to inflict casualties!

 

[sheadunne]

* D&D (Basic, 1e, 2e, 3.5e)
* Pathfinder
* Game of Thrones (d20)
* Call of Cthulhu
* Serenity
* Marvel Superheroes (TSR edition)
* Mechwarrior
* Vampire: The Masquerade

I might be missing a system in there from my 80s gaming days.

 

[innerdude]

Off the top of my head:

• Savage Worlds (we're now in our 3rd campaign that's lasted at least 15 months)
• Pathfinder
• Star Wars Saga Edition d20
• D&D 3.5
• GURPS (-ish, sort of kind of, the GM ran maybe 9 or 10 sessions before it fizzled)

Interestingly, for as long as I owned it, I never had a "long-term" campaign using BECMI. I probably had 9 or 10 different forays that lasted maybe 1-5 sessions, but nothing really long term.

Other stuff I've played, but only as one-offs / less than 5 sessions.

• Dungeon World
• HeroQuest
• Top Secret
• D&D 4e

 

[Aldarc]

D&D (and Heartbreakers)
* D&D 3.X & 3.5
* True20
* Arcana Unearthed/Evolved
* Pathfinder 1e
* D&D 5e

So most of my longer-term campaigns happened under the auspices of the 3e d20 system. Though this is less about my preferences and more about time and the group.

Other Longer Campaigns
* Numenera
* Fate RPG

 

[the Jester]

I have run or played in long-term games using AD&D, 2e AD&D, 3e, 4e, 5e, Savage Worlds (Deadlands and Supers), Paranoia (like four or five sessions, which is really long for Paranoia games), Amber Diceless Roleplaying, Star Frontiers, Warhammer Fantasy 2e, Marvel Superheroes, Vampire, Mage... I can't think of any others off hand.

 

[billd91]

I'm going to treat "long term campaign" as a single campaign that spans at least a college term or season of weekly sessions since we used to organize and play lots of games within that context when we were younger - it's longer than just a few sessions and does represent a thorough playing of the game system.

AD&D 1e, 2e, hybrid 1e/2e and OA
D&D 3e
D&D 4e
D&D 5e
Pathfinder
Villains and Vigilantes
Champions
Mutants and Masterminds
Shadowrun
Paranoia
Call of Cthulhu
Warhammer Fantasy
Star Wars d20
Star Wars Saga Edition
Cyberpunk 2020
GURPS