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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bobitron" data-source="post: 3988858" data-attributes="member: 25479">Hey guys. I was very active in PbP a couple years back, but now I've pulled back to only one game here on ENW. I'm a bit more active elsewhere on Groovy Gamers (where I'm an admin and moderator) and PbPHouse, two PbP sites with great people and sizeable communities. Groovy Gamers has probably a couple hundred active game threads.I've played with Blue Genie and BrOp and they were both great DM's. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> He came forward and shared that with his players a while back and it was much appreciated.BrOp's comments as to why he has had trouble continuing a game rings pretty true in my mind, as well. I've run a handful of games here as DM and none have ever reached the success I envisioned. One was definitely a case of aiming too high (My Silver Flame Inquisitor Eberron game) and another due to bad planning on my part when I involved a player far too closely to the plot and they left (Bad Moon over California, my western game). But in both cases, I'm pretty sure I could have worked through it to make the games more successful if I really tried. My sympathies lie with others who feel the flame burns bright to start until interest...either the players or the DM's... starts to wane.DEFCON's point is pretty valid, in my opinion. Over on Groovy Gamers, I ran the intro adventure for the updated WHRP with good success. It went great! The fact that it had a finite goal and a definite 'end' meant for a really obtainable goal. Of course, I didn't want to end it. We had some really solid players and a great game. So I decided to make a campaign of it continuing on where the story ended. It failed miserably after a few more months.I'm running the Witchfire Trilogy now. It is the last long-form game I'll ever run. From now on I will only attempt to run short, finite adventures. Longer, more story arc-type games hold a pretty special place in my heart, but I don't think I have the right mindset to run them in PbP.Actually, that reminds me of something I saw on another site; the concept of 'Quickie' games. They are a great way to introduce players to a new system. Just have a short plot that would be the equivalent of an evening's F2F game, usually including a mix of social interaction, combat, and whatever else you want to show off about that system. It may or may not include character creation.That might be a great way to run a game without having to worry too much about the potential for burnout.</blockquote>

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