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<blockquote data-quote="Frozen DM" data-source="post: 3864956" data-attributes="member: 35841">You need to figure out why you're burning out. If it's just the effort it takes to run a game, considering stepping down as DM for a while and letting someone else take the wheel. If it's because your game is not heading in the direction you want, you've grown bored with the existing campaign, or you feel you DMed yourself into a corner, consider just changing campaigns or systems. You don't necessarily need to&nbsp; end the campaign, but you can put it on hiatus for a while.&nbsp; If you feel there is a computability issue between yourself and your gaming group, figure out how to address it. It might mean you need to step away from the gaming group itself. Talk to your players though. I can't stress this enough. Let them know you're burning out and that you need to make some changes. And be honest about the reasons, they might have suggestions that can help. Even if you need a break from the group, just let them know.&nbsp; I had one DM recently who was burning out because he didn't seem to enjoy the group he was gaming with. So he decided to bow out of gaming completely, or so he told us. Turns out he started DMing another group almost right away, and it's caused a lot of anger amongst our group. Had he just told us he needed a break from the group we would have been cool with it, instead he took the deceptive root and it's damaged a lot of friendships.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frozen DM, post: 3864956, member: 35841"] You need to figure out why you're burning out. If it's just the effort it takes to run a game, considering stepping down as DM for a while and letting someone else take the wheel. If it's because your game is not heading in the direction you want, you've grown bored with the existing campaign, or you feel you DMed yourself into a corner, consider just changing campaigns or systems. You don't necessarily need to end the campaign, but you can put it on hiatus for a while. If you feel there is a computability issue between yourself and your gaming group, figure out how to address it. It might mean you need to step away from the gaming group itself. Talk to your players though. I can't stress this enough. Let them know you're burning out and that you need to make some changes. And be honest about the reasons, they might have suggestions that can help. Even if you need a break from the group, just let them know. I had one DM recently who was burning out because he didn't seem to enjoy the group he was gaming with. So he decided to bow out of gaming completely, or so he told us. Turns out he started DMing another group almost right away, and it's caused a lot of anger amongst our group. Had he just told us he needed a break from the group we would have been cool with it, instead he took the deceptive root and it's damaged a lot of friendships. [/QUOTE]

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