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This week is my group's tenth anniversary of gaming together (there are 3 of us that have been playing together for 10 years, the rest have come and gone over that time, but most of the players currently playing (with the exception of one) have been playing for 5+ years.
What do you folks do to celebrate anniversaries? We're planning a grill-out and I've procured a beholder-cake from a local bakery (hope it's not a cake-wreck) to commemmorate the occasion (the first adventuring group/game was called the Beholders, hence the cake).
Huh... I've never thought about it.
Our group has been together for almost 20 years (we're mid-way through our 19th year) and I'm not even sure what our exact starting date was.
Let's see, longest running group played from 1996 to 2006. We only got to play about 4-5 times a year. We never celebrated any kind of anniversary.
My current group started play in the summer of 2008 and we're still going strong. As for celebrating, well we kinda do that every time we play. When the weather is nice we fire up the grill before every session. Beer, brats, and dice. It's nice gaming with adults. :P
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Huh... I've never thought about it.
Our group has been together for almost 20 years (we're mid-way through our 19th year) and I'm not even sure what our exact starting date was.
We play weekly, every Tuesday night. I think if it was less frequently, I wouldn't think it was so momentous otherwise.
I had to go through my email to try to figure out the day of the first session. It was pretty easy for me to figure out, I had a webpage from the original campaign with the date on it. I just had to go through my email to verify, make sure that I wasn't forgetting something.
Agreed on the gaming with adults. We are all over 30 at this point...
Since I don't exactly recall when we started gaming together, it would be difficult to peg an anniversary date. That said, a good chunk of my usual group started with me back in 2nd ed. One of them was around back in 1st edition AD&D. We don't celebrate; we just digress with reminiscences of the old days and adventures gone by for long periods of time.
I'm playing in a play-by-email game that has lasted for ten years so far (starting with 3.0 D&D, switching to 3.5, and then rebooting as a 4E game). I've only been with it for a mere 5 years, though.
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This week is my group's tenth anniversary of gaming together (there are 3 of us that have been playing together for 10 years, the rest have come and gone over that time, but most of the players currently playing (with the exception of one) have been playing for 5+ years.
What do you folks do to celebrate anniversaries? We're planning a grill-out and I've procured a beholder-cake from a local bakery (hope it's not a cake-wreck) to commemmorate the occasion (the first adventuring group/game was called the Beholders, hence the cake).
Congrats. In my main gaming group a player has started gaming with me 25 years ago, other two have joined the ranks three years later, and the last two are rather recent recruits of just a handful of years (4 and a half).
Obviously there is a rather long list of guys that have come and gone during this time span - some of them missed, others... not so much.When we feel like celebrating is in order (with no exact date, to be honest), we just go to a very nice, quite expensive restaurant and treat ourselves with a multi-course dinner and a lot of booze.
A couple years ago we had a special event of sorts, replaying the original introduction to the RPG hobby, adventure module B4 "The Lost City" straight out of my Red Box.
After a full decade of 3.X and having passed the '90s mostly playing the Chaosium d100 Call of Cthulhu, dealing with THAC0 and those funny saves was a shock. For quite a bit we couldn't figure out how we felt so natural with the system when we were teens!
I have been playing with the same group, at least most of the players, for 20+ years, and we liked it that way ... but happy anniversary and cheers for a long and prosperous gaming experience in the future.
The group I play with has it's core going back to January 1985.
Congrats on the ten years.