Don't you hate it when...

[CronoDekar]

Welcome to the story of the last series of campaigns my group has tried to run, including the last two I ran. And then one person can't reliably show up and another has gotten into WoW, so between all those factors I don't think anybody is seriously considering starting another campaign anytime soon. Which is kind of disappointing since I have a few character concepts I would like to bring back or try out. (Oddly enough though, it seems like while I have plenty of character concepts on the backburner, whenever a new campaign springs up I end up developing one specifically for the campaign.)

 

[genshou]

I've got a binder full of them.

I'll raise you two more binders and around 6 1-inch stacks around my bedroom

For some reason, almost every online game I'm in as a player fizzles because the GM abandons us, but every game I try to run fizzles because the players just don't care.

 

[ForceUser]

...you make a really cool character up, and the campaign falls apart just after a few sessions? That really bugs me... Just wanted to share that

Yeah, I hate that. It's happened to me a lot in the last year, and has been extremely frustrating. Hopefully we're on track now.

 

[hagor]

Yep, extremely frustrating. You make all this effort in creating a fine character concept and background; during play you try to fit it in the campaign world (so that the character has a 'life' outside the adventure part) and than it's over.

Unfortunately, in my case, this seems to be more the rule than the exception.

The reasons are usually (real life based) difficulties in trying to find a date when to play, players dropping out, or something like that.


Hagor

 

[Li Shenron]

...you make a really cool character up, and the campaign falls apart just after a few sessions? That really bugs me... Just wanted to share that

Happened a couple of times to me too. But if you're playing again in the same setting (or if the other setting is similar enough), what's stopping you from porting your PC into another game?

One of our gamers is especially fond of her Half-Elf Druid, that she has played it in at least 3 different campaigns (one in FR, one in GH, and the other generic).

Actually, the only other thing that could stop you, beside setting incompatibilities, is if your PC died. But even in that case, you could imagina that you're either playing in the past, or that it has been raised from the dead between the two games.

 

[Li Shenron]

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Hueya Dannyalcatraz, when did you clone my signature?

 

[JoeGKushner]

One of my friends has a habbit of making characters from 1st to 20th level and then adjusts them as the game progresses.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Oh yeah, though it hasn't happened in a while. I think the last time was on one of the rare occasions when I wasn't DMing. I was terribly excited to play my hard-drinking, foul-mouthed elven bountyhunter. Unfortunately, the DM was uniformly awful and rail-roaded the entire group into a TPK on the first adventure.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hueya Dannyalcatraz, when did you clone my signature?

That has been my sig as long as I've had a sig! Great minds, as they say, think alike!

 

[sniffles]

I guess I'm lucky this hasn't happened to me too often. But then I stop to think about my Fantasy Hero half-elf, Jewel. My fiancee and I joined after the campaign had been running for a while. Following a big plot development, the GM suddenly decided that things hadn't gone the way he wanted them to and he pressed the 'reset' button by having a major NPC do some magical thing to jump time backward and erase all the PCs memories. So my PC and another PC ended up never having met the rest of the party. A short time later the GM dropped off the face of the earth.

And then there was the Champions game I was really enjoying. It actually ran for quite a while, but the GM broke up with his girlfriend and decided superheroes wasn't really his genre. I still miss my PC in that one; she was a blast to play.

Those are really the only examples I have. I suffer more from Characters I Will Never Get To Play syndrome. Too many ideas, not enough time.