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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 247289" data-attributes="member: 99">As the responses here show, there are a lot of different things that you should do to make your campaign a good one and they vary widely based on your preferences and those of your players.  Instead of listing even more tips like that, I'll take a slightly different tack.I recently wrapped up a campaign and I think I did a good job overall.  But there are some things I wish I hadn't done or had done differently.  Here's my list of mistakes.1) I shouldn't have run them ragged all the time.   A fast paced game can be very fun but it is best to let the party take a day or two off now and then.  They can use the time for item creation or crafting or whatever but sometimes it's good when they can just relax and have some good hot meals.2) I shouldn't have put them in over their heads EVERY time.  A good game (IMHO) requires some battles that are going to push the party to its very limits.  But I had them in life or death situations almost every week.  I should have thrown in more encounters that were easy to overcome.3)  I shouldn't have made EVERY encounter integral to the plot.  It is good to have overarching plots that give structure to the game and the encounters the party has.  It is also good to have encounters that are just random and give the party a switch from what they've been fighting.4) I shouldn't have been so stingy about letting some of their ideas work.  Sometimes a player comes up with an idea that I think is great and I reward them for it.  Sometimes they come up with an idea that they think is great and I make it such that it doesn't work that well because of my own tastes.  That's fine, but I think I should have been a bit more forgiving about a few ideas they had.That's about all the bad things I can think of right now.  The list didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would be. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> One thing that I did do well this campaign is not pull punches.  I didn't try to kill the characters, but the monsters did.  We only had three character deaths in almost a year of playing (one even got reincarnated - as an elf) but the players knew that they could lose a character in a hurry if they were stupid.  The played smart and careful most of the time.</blockquote>

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