Argghh D&D is boring me

[Patrick-S&S]

We had that feeling once in our group when we gamed once a week on a regular basis. We decided to game each other week to keep the fire up and leave the gaming completely during two months in the summer. We have never had as much as now...

 

[Dinkeldog]

If you can hold out until the fall, a Rodent of Note is swearing by Mutants and Masterminds. If you can't, maybe some Champions?

If not that, maybe a month or two of other games? Catan is a favorite with one of my gaming groups.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Most gamers won't just take it, especially if theGM just throws it onto them. In some instances, it's just best to explain you're problem to the group and ask for suggestons. It can be fun to take a break from a genre, or even a system. Instead of playing a D20 futuristic game, you should switch gears and try out some different systems like GURPS, Hero 5th Edition, Exalted, one of the World of Darkness settings, or something just different like Rifts or Tribe 8.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Run a Call of Cthulhu campaign! When that's done, you can either DM or get one of your players to DM for a bit.

That's what my group is doing right now...I just finished DMing the initial 10-month campaign (you can read all about it through the link in my sig!), and now one of my players is going to run the group through a module. I made a cleric. Once I've played for 5 months or so, I'm sure I'll be dying to get back "behind the screen."

Good luck!

(Oh, and I liked the World of Darkness suggestion, too)

 

[Frosty]

Run a Call of Cthulhu campaign! When that's done, you can either DM or get one of your players to DM for a bit.

I second that! We played CofC last saturday night instead of our scheduled D&D-game. It was a great change of style and pace. We'll be playing more CofC, I can assure you!

 

[Henry]

Dagger75,

NEVER play the same game every week for a long time. You will burn out, no questions asked. I am surprised some other players do not feel the same way by now. Perhaps you have attended more games than everyone else, with others missing a session every now and again?

My advice to ANY gaming group is play different games. Play Magic the Gathering as a group game (it's a very different experience to make a group deck than a competitive deck), play a complex board game, play frisbee, get boff'em weapons and beat the **** out of each other, or (shock! horrors!) play another RPG. Even one with a different genre but d20 rules is a good change of pace.

Do not be concerned if you have burnout on one game. Playing one game and dealing with only one genre tends to make your mind tired and your ideas stale. I know this from personal experience. I used to only immerse myself in genre stuff, and found I was beginning to come up with the same hackneyed plots over and over. I started reading spy thrillers, watching "chick flick" dramas and Lifetime channel (don't laugh), and delved a little into horror, nonfiction, and even psychology textbooks and non-european history. It was one of the best things I ever did. How else would I take a hack-and-slash module, take the plot from a Lifetime Movie of the Week, and insert it as a subplot into the module I was running?

Get out while you still can, because when a game stops being fun, then why the heck are you playing it?