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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 7643171" data-attributes="member: 32740">With only one exception in the last 40 years, every campaign I have begun I have approached as if it will last forever.  With the aforementioned exception, every campaign I began has ended more or less with a whimper.  Players have drifted in and out with school, jobs, interest in playing RPG's in general, and eventually the campaign dies away when there isn't a quorum - or I myself burn out.The "exception game" was a highly successful 3E campaign.  I began it with the specific intent to have it definitively end one way or another when PC's reached 20th level, or thereabouts.  I had something of a story arc to work with (though a huge amount was improvised as I went along), and wanted that arc and that campaign to END rather than fizzle away.  It was a perfect storm of circumstances that allowed that to happen because I felt I could keep the game running with mostly the same players and PC's all the way.  It was something like a year to a year and a half of real time, playing quite regularly once a week for about 6 hours.I just don't forsee real life circumstances allowing that to happen again.  Ever since that campaign it's been the usual: We play until the wheels fall off.  Then there is typically a period of time without a game.  Then we start again.  Campaigns may last 8 sessions, 12 sessions, or 50 sessions.  Won't ever know where the end is until we get there.Most importantly - I'm okay with that.</blockquote>

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