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<blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3865660" data-attributes="member: 48586">Great suggesstions so far. Hopefully they keep coming in focused on a broad range of burnouts.Someone asked, so I'll volunteer what I think my reasons are for burnout, but please don't focus on just my problem. I don't want to make this about me. I'd like to see a lot of useful suggestions anyone can use.One of the biggest reasons for my DM burnout is due to the announcements of the end of the print run of Dungeon and Dragon and the coming of 4E. Since I write a lot of stuff for publication, I felt like that avenue of creative release was coming to an end. Thus, the stuff I write and run in my games seemed to have an expiration date suddenly stamped on them.The other part is that I've lost a lot of my best players over the past 6 months. I gained a really great player and felt better about things, but then he up and moved away so I lost him too. I have a really good core group of 4 players, but I'm used to bigger groups and the ones we lost were the more charismatic leader types. Without them, there's been a large empty spot that has not been filled.A think another factor has to do with the fact that I recenly started my own business and have been very focused on that.So, all of those things are basically my reasons. I really don't want to just take a break from gaming because I still love it, but I definitely need to do something to shake off the burnout. The suggestions so far are very encouraging.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="+5 Keyboard!, post: 3865660, member: 48586"] Great suggesstions so far. Hopefully they keep coming in focused on a broad range of burnouts. Someone asked, so I'll volunteer what I think my reasons are for burnout, but please don't focus on just my problem. I don't want to make this about me. I'd like to see a lot of useful suggestions [i]anyone[/i] can use. One of the biggest reasons for my DM burnout is due to the announcements of the end of the print run of [i]Dungeon[/i] and [i]Dragon[/i] and the coming of 4E. Since I write a lot of stuff for publication, I felt like that avenue of creative release was coming to an end. Thus, the stuff I write and run in my games seemed to have an expiration date suddenly stamped on them. The other part is that I've lost a lot of my best players over the past 6 months. I gained a really great player and felt better about things, but then he up and moved away so I lost him too. I have a really good core group of 4 players, but I'm used to bigger groups and the ones we lost were the more charismatic leader types. Without them, there's been a large empty spot that has not been filled. A think another factor has to do with the fact that I recenly started my own business and have been very focused on that. So, all of those things are basically my reasons. I really don't want to just take a break from gaming because I still love it, but I definitely need to do something to shake off the burnout. The suggestions so far are very encouraging. [/QUOTE]

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