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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7652760" data-attributes="member: 3400">In the Thursday Night group that I play with, we don't typically shelve any game indefinitely. If we're playing something at the time and someone other than the GM has an other idea, we'll discuss it and basically stick in the queue to be picked up at a point in which the current game is ready to stop for a while. Sometimes, we also have a backup game going in case the current main GM is too busy to prep or has a schedule conflict.For example, right now, we're playing a Mass Effect game based on the SWSE rules and working our way through a substantial story arc based on ME2. But we also have the backup D&D 3.5 game in which we rotate GMs and play relatively short adventures for when the Mass Effect GM has been too busy on a work deadline to prep. Before the ME game, we were playing Torg and Dragon Age, which followed the 4e game we finally decided to give up (with the possibility of converting it to Pathfinder at a later date). And the current ME GM has also hatched a campaign idea set in the Forgotten Realms involving Zhentil Keep that we may eventually use D&D Next rules for (and the supplements he'll be basing it on are all 2e). This is also the same group for which I've run a long standing "Classic Modules" campaign of 1e modules converted to 3e - though I doubt we'll pick that campaign up again any time soon since I feel it has lived up to its purpose of testing out 3e while also giving younger players a chance to play through some serious classics (Keep on the Borderlands, Ravenloft, Slaver series, Giant series, White Plume Mountain).So, I guess, when it comes to gaming and campaigns, I don't really subscribe to the theory that when a door opens, another must close. Sometimes it does, but quite often it does not and we circle back around to play some more. It helps if the GMs involved simply like to play lots of different games because we're usually pretty good about handing off the GMing spotlight in order to get a chance to play on the other side of the screen. It also helps if the campaigns planned are somewhat episodic because that makes it easy to reach closure on the current episode as well as easier to pick up again once the sequel is ready.</blockquote>

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