A 32-Year Long Dungeons and Dragons Campaign is Coming to an End

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After an incredible 32 years, the Dungeon Master of a long-running Dungeons & Dragons game has announced he’ll be bringing the campaign to a close in 2028. The game started in 1993, during the 2nd Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and will end after roughly 30 more sessions, completing a 35-year run.

Dungeons & Dragons is a hugely popular tabletop role-playing game. However, because it requires coordinating the schedules of several players, many D&D campaigns don’t last very long – often just a few months, rather than a year or more.

Decaldor’s 32-Year-Long Dungeons and Dragons Game Ends 2028

One Dungeon Master, Phong Nguyen – also known online as Decaldor and who teaches fiction writing at the University of Missouri – has been leading the same group of friends on a Dungeons & Dragons adventure for an incredible 32 years, starting back in 1993. As of 2025, he plans to wrap up this long-running campaign in 2028, marking its 35th anniversary. With the group meeting roughly once a month, there are only about 30 sessions left before their final showdown with Orthangul, a powerful demon who previously defeated them in 2022.

This game began in 1993 with the 2nd Edition of Dungeons & Dragons and has continued through every edition since, including the current 5th Edition. Over the years, the campaign has faced major setbacks – even a total party kill – and has included a unique twist: a campaign-within-a-campaign where the characters were transported to another world and started over at level one.

Decaldor is a popular D&D game master on TikTok, with over 50,000 followers and nearly two million likes. He frequently shares highlights from his ongoing campaign, especially the unique locations he and his friends use for their annual multi-day sessions. For example, they celebrated their 30th anniversary by playing for three days in a cave lodge, followed by a four-day session at a castle in New York this year. They’re already planning to play in a treehouse in Oklahoma in 2026!

To understand how remarkable this is, consider that Critical Role has run three full campaigns since 2015, each spanning over 100 sessions and several years. While Critical Role‘s accomplishment is already impressive, Decaldor’s campaign is far more extensive – his single game lasted more than three times as long as all of Critical Role‘s campaigns combined, and even surpassed half the total lifespan of the tabletop role-playing game system itself.

Surprisingly, Decaldor’s campaign isn’t the longest Dungeons & Dragons game ever played. That record belongs to Robert A. Wardhaugh, a Canadian historian and professor. He started a game in 1982 that’s been running continuously ever since. This unique campaign takes place on an alternate Earth, 400 years after the events in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and has involved over 50 players and 500 characters. Remarkably, there hasn’t been a break of more than three weeks between sessions. This ongoing, multi-generational game currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest home-created campaign.

While Decaldor’s campaign is incredibly long, some Dungeons & Dragons players say theirs have gone on even longer. One TikTok user, M Gilbert, commented that their group will celebrate 50 years of playing in 2028 – meaning they began just four years after the original Dungeons & Dragons book came out.

Decaldor’s group truly demonstrates commitment and masterful storytelling – qualities every Dungeons & Dragons player should aim for. It’s worth following his social media to see how this incredible story wraps up in the years to come.

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2025-11-12 00:05