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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5188823" data-attributes="member: 32740">I have had a few campaigns go on hiatus for as much as a month or so when players announced they had plans for upcoming weeks.  We would generally agree on a date to resume the game and then picked up where we left off (though usually the first session back became a jawbone fest where everyone just talked about their REAL lives over the previous month and little or no actual gaming ever took place the first night back.)  Just a VERY few occasions did this occur. I very vaguely seem to recall at least one occasion when players wanted to try to resume a game that had died/fizzled out over a year before.  It was quite short-lived as the players mistakenly only tried to relive past glories instead of attempting to create new ones.  Sort of like a pathetic use of a Star Trek: TNG holodeck.  I do recall that because of this any future player who suggested raising an old campaign from the dead was quickly told that it wasn't worth the risk of damage that MIGHT be done to cherished characters and memories. The most common end is OVERWHELMINGLY that the game died with a whimper.  Players just stopped showing up.  Usually without ever bothering to say they wanted to make other plans.  They just became reliably busy on game night when I called ahead to get their "RSVP".  Generally this coincided with Summer months.  Accordingly, for many years I did not expect ANY game to last more than 9 months at best.  I also made an unwritten table rule that the game would only take place when there was a reasonable expectation of a quorum of at least 4 players.  We could do anything else that night - computer games, board games, card games, go to a movie, have dinner...   One or two PC's absences might be studiously ignored, but I didn't want to constantly have to "explain" the absence of too many PC's, especially in the middle of an adventure. I have had one - and only one - campaign that specifically ended.  That was a 3E campaign which only ended because as an experiment I started it with the stated intent of ending it at or just about when the PC's reached 20th level.  It ended reasonably well.  It did not end spectacularly or particularly memorably (the journey was MUCH more fun than the destination) but I was nonetheless pleased.  Surprisingly, this campaign ran for a couple of years and the MOST fun was actually during the summer months when we gamed outside 'til midnight or later under the flicker of a half-dozen oil lamps.</blockquote>

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