anyone else burned-out with D&D?

[GlassJaw]

Because I am. I've played a LOT of D&D, especially 3ed since it came out. I've been in at least 2 separate campaign groups for the last 4 years or so. But it's only recently that I've started to get burned-out with it. Maybe it's the constant influx of crunch from WotC. Maybe it's the high-level, tooth-pulling, hours-long battles. Maybe it's the same classes and races.

Whatever it is, I'm burned-out.

I'm still in 2 groups right now (playing in one, playing and DM'ing in the other) and the only things I can think about are starting a Shadowrun or Mutants & Masterminds campaign or trying out d20 Modern/Future.

One group is relatively new and has a couple of 3ed rookies in it. They are all psyched to play and have been checking out the books and the WotC boards, etc. I can't even be bothered. I am playing a half-orc with a spiked chain so that's kind of fun (I've never played a half-orc before OR used a chain) but I'm going back to basics on this one. I'm really working on my role-playing and character background in this campaign and trying to stick to the core rules as much as possible (I might try out the EWM from the CW at the most).

Anyway, just wanted to vent a bit and see if anyone else has gone through something similar. Any comments/thoughts/advice/flames?

 

[d4]

me too. i feel burned out on D&D.

right now i really want to do d20 Modern/Future or Mutants & Masterminds. outside of d20, Savage Worlds looks tempting.

at first i thought i was burned out on fantasy and magic in general, but the more i think about it, i think it's just D&D's style that doesn't agree with me any more.

low-level D&D is fun, but when it moves into the mid-levels (around 8 or 9) i really begin to lose interest. i don't like the way magic and magic items dominate play after that point. (i'm more of a low-magic kinda guy.)

that's not to say i only want to play low-level. i'd love to play in a high-level, high-power game -- as long as the magic is kept low. (that's one of the reasons why i'm looking at d20 Modern/Future.)

other than that, i'm always up for superheroes.

 

[Aeric]

Right there with you. I've played almost nothing but D&D since 3.0 came out, and I'm really jonesing to play something different.

It's tough mixing experience levels when it comes to players. In my group, two of us are experienced and three are rookies. We've been playing Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, which is basically one enormous dungeon. The rookies are having a ball with the whole "search the area, kill the monster, take the loot, search the next area" routine, but the other veteran and I are bored to tears. We usually end up kibbitzing for most of the night, much to the aggravation of the DM.

 

[Crothian]

Not me, as I find things that don't work and I might get burned out on I change them. I also have played other games but at all times had at least one fantasy d20 game going. We've also done modern, Buffy, Vampire, etc. So, maybe that has helped.

 

[Nareth]

Our groups don't get burned out, mostly because we rotate GM's. Each GM has their own world/game. For example, our afternoon group is my Forgotten Realms game, a Dragonlance game, an AU campaign, and a Spycraft game. We've also done an Oriental game, and are starting a Mutants & Masterminds campaign shortly. Changing worlds every 2-3 months keeps things interesting, and gives someone else a chance behind the screen.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I have burnout too. I used to think it was DM burnout, or maybe being mad at the players for some reason, but it was neither. I'm just getting tired of DnD. Like GlassJaw, I'm going back to my Shadowrun roots (Shadowrun and Cthulhu were really my first RPGs, not DnD). On the D20 front, I'm also into MnM and Modern more than DnD right now.

 

[Lord Foul]

I wish I was burnt out on D&D. Ever since our group split up (people got new jobs or moved away), I haven't played.

But what we used to do to break things up so that we would not get burnt out every three or four sessions we would play Munchkin, CoC, Settlers of Catan, or some other type of game. It worked out very well. Another nice thing about this was the fact that we all would look for odd and interesting games to buy for those occasions.

 

[kolikeos]

no way! i've been playing D&D for the last three n' a half years and i won't stop willingly, although college may make things defficult.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

3.0 got me back into D&D after a long stint with Warhammer, homebrew systems of dubious value, and console RPGs. I've been hooked ever since.

No d20 burnout here. Though nowadays I'd rather play d20 Modern than D&D, I still enjoy both standard and low-magic D&D.

 

[wedgeski]

I'm a little burned out on fantasy but not on D&D and/or d20 in particular, no. I'll be starting a d20 Modern game with a brand new group in a couple of weeks which I hope will be great fun...