Data queried September 29, 2026. We will rerun this page once 200 quests have linked start and end sessions, which will make the lifespan numbers solid.
The median party is holding six or seven open quests right now. The busiest tenth are carrying fifteen or more. Quest advice is everywhere and quest data is nowhere, so here are 732 real ones, from the main arc down to the favor owed to an innkeeper.
Ten at the median, and the most quest-dense campaign has logged 146. About 8 percent are background threads a GM planted to pay off later and 3 percent belong to one character's personal story, so the overwhelming majority are things the party went out and got themselves.
Snapshot the active campaigns and the median party holds 6.5 open quests at once, with the busiest tenth carrying 15 or more. A journal with half a dozen live threads in it is the resting state of the game rather than a sign anybody lost control of the plot.
452 of the 732 quests have reached a recorded outcome: 406 completed, 46 failed, about one in ten. The other 280 are still open, and a quest the party quietly dropped sits open forever rather than getting marked failed, so treat that one in ten as the floor on how often they walk away.
16 of the 51 quests with both ends linked to a session opened and closed in the same night. Across that sample the median resolves in about three sessions and 28 days, the 90th percentile stretches to twelve sessions and the longest ran 29. Fifty-one is a small number and it skews short, because a quest that starts and ends in one evening is the easiest kind to link end to end. Treat this section as a sketch until more arcs close.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Quests measured | 732 |
| Quests per campaign | median 10; max 146 |
| Open quests at once (active campaigns) | median 6.5; 90th percentile 15 |
| Concluded quests | 452 (406 complete, 46 failed) |
| Failure rate | 10.2 percent of concluded quests |
| Quest lifespan (n=51, biased short) | median about 3 sessions / 28 days; max 29 sessions |
| Resolved same session introduced | 16 of 51 (about a third) |
| Background / personal quests | 8 percent / 3 percent |
732 quests across every real campaign on the platform through September 2026. Quests are AI-detected from live transcripts and session records, then edited, merged, and resolved by the GM, so the unit here is what the table treated as an objective rather than what a module's back cover promised, and the counts reflect what tables actually tracked. Outcome labels are the table's judgment. Lifespans use the link between a quest and the sessions that introduced and resolved it, and only 51 quests have both links so far. That subsample skews short. Test and demo campaigns are excluded. If you want a cut we didn't run, ask: hello@thread-fall.com and we'll run it. The data on this page is licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it freely, credit Threadfall with a link.
The median campaign in our data has logged 10 quests over its life so far, and the most quest-dense campaign has logged 146. Quests here means everything the table treats as an objective: main arcs, side jobs, personal errands, and mysteries.
Six or seven, typically. Active campaigns in our data hold a median of 6.5 open quests at a time, and the busiest tenth carry 15 or more. A journal with half a dozen live threads in it is the normal condition of the game rather than a planning failure.
About 1 in 10 of the quests that reach an outcome. Of the 452 with a recorded outcome, 406 completed and 46 failed. The other 280 of our 732 quests are still open, so that 1 in 10 is a floor on failure rather than a measurement of it.
Early numbers from a small sample (51 quests with both start and end linked to sessions): the median quest resolves within about three sessions and 28 calendar days, a third resolve in the same session they appear, and the longest ran 29 sessions. Short quests are easiest to link end to end, so long arcs are underrepresented here.
Threadfall is the tool that produced this data: it records your session live and turns it into a written chapter. What is Threadfall? · More measured data: how long sessions run · how often characters die · how long campaigns last · how many quests parties juggle · what a real party looks like