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I'm glad you're having fun with the experience. For me, D&D is a game to play with other people. Part of the joy for me is the...

I think there's loads of the first type, the ones that sink within just a few sessions for [fill in reason here]. I've DMed one or two...

I don't mind their getting powerful enough to hold their own but I don't like it when they get so powerful they simply don't and can't...

This may have been brought up already, but I find in certain games (coughdndcough) the characters start to feel so powerful so fast that...

I like this idea, especially for places where you might not have your long time group and know what they like already. I can see a...

For me, learning new rule systems is pure drudgery hell and to be avoided if-whenever possible; even more so if said new system is as...

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Send him my way - I love players like that! :)

Then I must be on about my 25th campaign in my current game, then, using that definition. Once the players have each built up a stable...

Difference between players and characters here. Character turnover, particularly at low levels, is a simple fact of life: they die...

I misread this at first and thought you were saying you'd run twenty 30+ year campaigns, making me wonder just how old are you? :)

I've also seen proto-games where a few sessions in everyone involved (maybe except the GM) realizes that the GM just hasn't got a shred...

That's fair. My bigger picture POV is that you can never really get 100% finished in a sandbox game, because there's always something...

Disagree. Just keep on keeping on, running for whoever shows up. Eventually a semi-core group will coalesce, in the case of students...

An open-ended campaign where things never get fully resolved can still come to an end when all involved simply conclude it's run its...