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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8053341" data-attributes="member: 29398">Single Group, Rotating DM in any form doesn't work if the base setting has any baked-in secrets (e.g. a deity is imprisoned under the souther ocean) and-or long-term plots the players aren't supposed to know about yet.Now if each DM has a different setting, it's cool.Solo Game doesn't get much support largely because IME most players aren't very good at playing solo; they need someone else there to bounce ideas off of.West Marches would be uncommon largely because there's no way of knowing (without some very heavy DM force at times) whether the party will make it back to the hub by session's end.What we do equates to Living World, though these days instead of running multiple groups per week I run one group for an adventure, then put them on hold while I run another group (same players, different PCs), and so on.I've never heard of the style you call Wargame.  Interesting.All that said, I think the main reason Single Group, Single DM is most prevalent is because that's how the game is - and has been during the whole WotC era - designed, presented and marketed. The adventures, specially in 5e, are mostly released as start-to-finish APs. Level advance is fast on the assumption that any given campaign will only run for a year or two. And most important, little to no guidance of any kind is given for any other style.</blockquote>