Aug 162015
RPGaDay asks on Day 16, what was the longest game session I’ve played?
In recent memory, I think around 8 hours is the longest single session I’ve played, but when I first started playing, I can remember sessions that spanned entire weekends. Maybe once I’ve retired and all my gaming buddies are retired, we’ll be able to do that again, but I suspect those marathon sessions are a product of youth. Enjoy them while you can!
Justin Schmid
Justin started tabletop gaming in 1983 with Basic D&D (red box) and never looked back. He runs and plays in a wide variety of games, including Savage Worlds, Dungeon World, Trail of Cthulhu and many, many more.
He also writes professionally for role-playing games, including writing and creating Night's Edge an Alternate Reality Universe for Cyberpunk 2020. He went on to write eight more adventures and sourcebooks in the Night's Edge line, adding vampires and other supernatural perils to the already dangerous world of Cyberpunk.
As a freelance writer, he wrote The Bermuda Triangle for Call of Cthulhu, Shadows of the Mind, and Psi Wars for Conspiracy X and contributed to Last Unicorn's Star Trek RPG, as well as to Cybergeneration sourcebooks, and many other games.
When he's not creating imaginary worlds for his daughter, he's running games for his friends and writing new adventures or designing new game systems. He currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
it’s been years since I did a marathon game, but I recall back when I first started playing that it was par for the course to play Friday night, Saturday (all day) and Sunday until about 7pm at my buddy Dave’s house. So it would be like 30+ hours of gaming with breaks for donuts and bathroom…
If I could get my group to sit still for 3 hours I’d be impressed today.