D&D 4E I'm running a 4e game tonight for the first time in months!

[Piratecat]

Oh, work crunch, you and your 80+ hour weeks have thwarted me repeatedly -- I've missed something like 6 games -- but now things are looking up. The fact that I have no memory whatsoever of what people were doing should hardly factor into it, right? Cause I keep impeccable notes, right?

I'm so screwed.

But I can't wait!

 

[hayek]

Just claim the party went to sleep and woke up with amnesia... wait, since you're the one who can't remember what's going on, you should claim the party went to sleep and everyone else in the entire world got amnesia! I'm sure the party will be happy to track down the BBEG and remind him of whatever evil scheme he was concocting so it can get back underway...

 

[renau1g]

Haha, that's the BBEG's evil plot come to fruition, to steal all the memories of everyone in the world, installing himself as the rightful leader of the realms and nobody remembers different. Luckily the PC's are a special sort, they are immune to this nefarious characters actions and must "remind" all the peasants just what he has planned so they can turn against his rule...

 

[Klaus]

Oh, work crunch, you and your 80+ hour weeks have thwarted me repeatedly -- I've missed something like 6 games -- but now things are looking up. The fact that I have no memory whatsoever of what people were doing should hardly factor into it, right? Cause I keep impeccable notes, right?

I'm so screwed.

But I can't wait!

The game begins with the party racing down a trench, while soldiers in the trench shoot fire arrows at a flying fortress that is raining unholy doom from the sky. The party must reach the griffon aviary and take off in order to inflitrate the fortress.

"But... but... how did we get here?"

"NO TIME FOR THAT! GO! GO! GO!"

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just claim the party went to sleep and woke up with amnesia... wait, since you're the one who can't remember what's going on, you should claim the party went to sleep and everyone else in the entire world got amnesia! I'm sure the party will be happy to track down the BBEG and remind him of whatever evil scheme he was concocting so it can get back underway...

Ah- the Big O D&D campaign!

 

[Herschel]

Just claim the party went to sleep and woke up with amnesia... wait, since you're the one who can't remember what's going on, you should claim the party went to sleep and everyone else in the entire world got amnesia! I'm sure the party will be happy to track down the BBEG and remind him of whatever evil scheme he was concocting so it can get back underway...

"The New World" by Russell T. Davies. ;-)

 

[malraux]

This is why I always have players summarize what they thing the plot was last time. Far too often, it's an entirely different campaign from the one I thought I was running.

 

[Riastlin]

This is why I always have players summarize what they thing the plot was last time. Far too often, it's an entirely different campaign from the one I thought I was running.

"Wait. We're not playing Shadowrun?"

In all seriousness though I have encountered this a time or three myself. Fortunately for me, my players are usually at least as forgetful as I am.

 

[Dice4Hire]

A long hiatus is always a good excuse to start a new campaign.

 

[Riastlin]

A long hiatus is always a good excuse to start a new campaign.

Hush you! I want to see how his campaign carries on. Of course that assumes they get time to update (stupid real world obligations).