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Not even for one moment. Do GMs actually run games they don't want to run? Does that actually happen? I don't know about others, but you...

I don’t think I understand the question? What does finish mean? (I have a Forgotten Realms campaign that’s been going since 1988).

There's two types of failed/unfinished campaigns IME. The first type (failed) is that which never really gets off the ground in the...

I have certainly run campaigns that collapsed before completing. More often, I rush a failing campaign to finish earlier than expected...

Strangely, my experience has been that if one person is playing a given class, no matter how differently you could play that class...

Why? If I'm playing a Thief and someone else brings in a mechanically-near-identical Thief to mine, why would (or should) I consider...

So? Not every move changes the game state. Never mind there's many a situation when a character finds itself with nothing useful it...

Yes. BR 2E had typical D&D adventuring, but it also had domain management. Reminder me of the SNES game Actraiser. Part action part sim...

I don't agree with your premise. Those are challenges, not anti-PC abilities. At least they are no more anti-PC than a dragon claw or...

"Nothing happens" is always an acceptable (if maybe unwanted) outcome of any attempted action IMO. Skipping your turn means you don't...

In D&D, however, that hidden "sniper" could be dropping a fireball on the targets; and those can hurt. Some of us try to push back...

Typically an ambush is a tactic one uses to get a major advantage over a superior foe you cannot, or would not want to, take on in a...

How do the players feel knowing that they can't actually get an ambush off either?

Is there a way to achieve the same result by bending the rules to suit the fiction rather than bending the fiction (as narrated) to suit...