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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8940425" data-attributes="member: 19675">Been in the hobby since ‘77, and went behind the screen by 1980.  So I’ve had a few campaigns die.The FTL that bugged me most was I had some insight on how to model the worlds of M:tG as a campaign setting in Fantasy HERO.  I had figured out some of the most vexing issues (like the colors of magic and sources of mana) when I told my group I was designing a FRPG Magic campaign.  Everyone in the group was enthusiastic…until I mentioned I was using HERO as the system.  Interest dropped to zero.  I was so stunned I stopped working on my campaign (though I still have my notes).  The creative spark was snuffed.  The Collapse that hurt was with the same group, but a few years later. I decided to dust off a homebrewed campaign I ran for a prior group that was essentially a low-powered HERO supers game using the world of Space:1889 + other fictional expansions.  Even though that was my best ever campaign, knowing my group at this point didn‘t like HERO, I retooled it for Mutants & Masterminds 2Ed - much closer mechanically to the 3.5Ed D&D we all enjoyed.  But a combination of some errors on my part, distaste for some of the mechanical differences between 3.5 Ed and M&M2, and some players not paying attention to the setting at all caused the game to fizzle within a few months.</blockquote>