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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5615423" data-attributes="member: 3400">On one level, this sounds like your typical garden variety burnout. Taking a break from the game burning you out is the best prescription - mix in other games and other formats than D&D Encounters. That style of running a game is probably going to burn you out faster than the average ongoing home campaign.On another level, you've got to learn to separate the stewardship of the game from the game itself. It can be hard, particularly when you come to the conclusion that the pass time you've invested a lifetime of effort into is either endangered or seriously in jeopardy of moving in a completely different direction from the one you want, but it will happen to every game sooner or later. Companies go out of business, they stop producing a particular product line, they change directions. When the official support is gone, gamers just have to take things into their own hands or shift games. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a worse issue for 4e than previous editions. The DDI has, I think, become so much of a focus for players and DMs that I wouldn't be surprised to see the 4e-playing community dry up in short order once official 4e support is eventually phased out. That is, however, probably several years down the road. In the meantime, I recommend participating in various threads critical of WotC's business decisions to get it out of your system.And finally, it does sound to me like you are actually having problems with 4e itself and not just the D&D Encounters format (contrary to some other advice you've gotten). I would recommend really analyzing how you want a game like 4e to fit into your leisure time and gaming hobby. Do you want it to be your main RPG? Or do you want something with different forms of variation between characters and skills? Would 4e still be a good occasional, pickup, beer and pretzels game? Along with this analysis, I strongly recommend mixing in some other games to play with your friends. There are plenty of other RPGs out there worth investigating including Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Villains and Vigilantes (it really is back), Mutants and Masterminds, Dread, Aces and Eights, and more.</blockquote>

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