Depends what you are considering "the game". If it's a session, they usually go for a few hours... on my group we have 3 hour sessions but I have played sessions that were 4 or even 5.
May sound like a lot but you actually get very little done depending on the adventure.
The actual adventure can last as long as the Dungeon Master (the person who "runs" the game) desires. There are some adventures called one-shots that are designed to last a single session, and there are also bigger campaigns that go on indefinitely. We have been playing this adventure for 4 years I think
Seems like a lot of time for going nowhere. LOL
yea lol
its frustrating sometimes
LOL then why do you play it?
haha most of the times it's fun
like today we are fighting a big combat and those are always fun
If you are all on the same team, who the heck are you combating?
We fight against NPCs (non-playable characters). They are basically monsters created and controlled by the Dungeon Master.
The Dungeon Master controls all characters that are not controlled by other players... so if we spot a local farmer and decide to have a chat with him, the Dungeon Master will speak as him
The same goes for monsters we fight. The Dungeon Master controls those