D&D 4E How Are You Preparing to End Your 4E Campaign?

[Grydan]

I plan to end my campaign the same way I always planned to end it: by completing the series of adventures I've been running.

Should only take me another 5 years, give or take a couple.

After that, who knows. I have another campaign idea I've been working on, off-and-on, for a few months.

 

[Arctic Wolf]

Well I am starting my 4e campaign in feb once that heroes of the elemental chaos comes out and prolly won't change when 5e comes out since it will be expensive a bit lol. Depending on how it's done we might change to the rules but the major thing will really depend on how magic is done because I know most won't even touch them if use Vancian magic. But that is a topic for another thread so I'll leave it be.

 

[Riastlin]

Like the others here have said, I have no plans to end my 4ed game early. My group is currently right at the mid-point (just at 16th level). I plan to run the game to its conclusions (which will hopefully be 30th level). At the rate we're going, that's likely to be another 2 - 3 years easily depending on vacations, holidays, etc. We only play every other week for 4 hours, so it'll take a while. The only real chance it will speed up is if I decide to fast-track epic tier due to burn out, lack of support, etc. But that is a 4ed issue, not a 5ed one.

That being said, one thing that I may do in my current campaign is to start hinting at the signs of "change". I've already set the campaign up as a bit of a Gods vs. Primordials campaign, so I may have the campaign's end determine the "makeup" of the world going forward, allowing for the PC's to be very influential in that future makeup should they win. In other words, I'll be giving my players the chance to shape the game world for the next campaign (assuming they continue to want to play).

 

[Gronin]

I am currently running two 4E campaigns and I plan to run both of them right up to the 30th level conclusion.

The first campaign is a Zeitgeist campaign and the players are having a blast but there is a long way to go. (A very conservative estimate is a couple of years as this is a bi-weekly campaign)

The second is the War of the Burning Sky campaign and it just started last Friday (again the players seemed to really enjoy it and I would really like to run the story right through to the end).

I have signed up for the play testing and we might try some 'one ofs' but as to whether we ever switch (after release date) is going to be up to the group as a whole.

 

[Blue]

Only one guy in our group is running 4th- every other active game is 3.5. I don't know if we'll sign up to playtest or not.

We'll probably sign up to play, but I'm in a variety of 4e and 3.5 games. Heck, I'm running a 3.5 campaign that's a sequel to a 3.0 campaign that started when the 3.0 PHB first hit the stores (a few weeks before DMG & MM were available) and has been running biweekly ever since.

Good games, we'll play, just a matter of finding time. Always open to new ideas, looking forward to see what Next brings as well.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I am signing up for sure, but not sure if my group is very interested, will ahve to wait and see what the docs look like.

 

[dangerous jack]

I was already prepping to end it in 2012 at level 10 after 4 years of play (once a month weeknight campaigns don't move very quickly).

But since the dominant campaign theme is nightmares & dreams, they'll end it in the dream world trying an Inception-style assault on Zehir. And I'll find a way to give them some of those "the first time you die" epic level powers.

 

[Ryujin]

I figure that I've got a year to get my group from 19th through 28-30, so nothing in my plans has changed.

 

[Roland55]

I'm still running a 3.5 game. So, I'll run my 4e game as long as there is interest. I'm also running a Pathfinder game. Back when 3.0 came out I made the mistake of taking a game from 2e (2.5e I guess with players option books) to 3.0. The game was never the same. Even though I found 3.0 and 3.5 to be a vast improvement over 2.5 that particular game suffered for the switch. I went on to run some great 3/3.5 games. It works better for me to start a fresh game in the new system. All that said, we haven't seen the new 'modular' iteration yet. The new Paradigm might call for a new look.

I have never had any luck when switching editions within a game or a campaign. I've learned to keep games/campaigns begun during an Edition within that Edition.

That said, I don't see why any 4e-lover wouldn't feel completely comfortable beginning a new game today!

 

[Roland55]

I am signing up for sure, but not sure if my group is very interested, will ahve to wait and see what the docs look like.

I just couldn't resist. I also signed up.

Just not sure how much time I'm really going to have to participate.