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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beckett" data-source="post: 2882847" data-attributes="member: 781">I'd like my games to reach a definite conclusion, and occasionally I pull it off.  My AU game I ended with anticipation of AE's release, but I was able to tie up the major plot thread, with the players teaming up with the antagonistic NPC party to defeat the Evil awakening in the north.A lot of my games are in hibernation right now, but I don't think of them as truely closed.  I can sometimes be distracted by shiny things and want to start something new, but most of my games I want to get back to at some point.  There are a few that are deader than others.  Sometimes I just can't figure out how to challenge the characters anymore, or my plot lines run dead.  Other times, I just get frusterated with some aspect of the game and let it die; a Sith War style Star Wars game ground to a halt when the players, having discovered the location of a secret weapon, rather than going in to destroy it like heroes, went to check in with the Council first.  Another Star Wars game, set just prior to the original movie, my disgust was against one player showing he just didn't get it ("I know you said we couldn't start with lightsabres, but why should that mean my character can't have the lightsabre components his Jedi mother left him?  And does that mean I need to get rid of my training lightsabre?")  Just left too much of a bad taste in my mouth to want to continue.That said, I think more of my current games are headed toward satisfying endings (along with more of my games heading into higher levels... hrm).  I'm running Age of Worms, as well as having my ToEE players continue to the GDQ series; these should both have good, definite conclusions if we make it all the way.  For self-created adventures, I've had the ending of my Eberron game in mind for months.  Just need to get the characters there.</blockquote>

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