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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5767386" data-attributes="member: 54707">Well, if ya count all kinds of Role Playing Games&nbsp; then about five or six reached an ending I planned, more if you count &quot;reached a&nbsp; suitable but unplanned ending.&quot; My RPG Campaigns used to be of the longer&nbsp; variety, one running about 5 years or so (it was AD&amp;D). In that one my players (I was DM) topped out at about 16th level, with the replacement guys hitting about 12th, and a couple of the big guys being KIA or sacrificing themselves at the end.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you count Wargames then I've finished a lot of&nbsp; campaigns, but they usually run a few months in length. Ran one in Stalingrad&nbsp; that ran about 9 months.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I don't have a lot of time to play nowadays, I&nbsp; have family and businesses to run and projects and inventions and social stuff&nbsp; and charity and occasional case-work and what-not.&nbsp;&nbsp;So nowadays a Campaign is a very different thing&nbsp; than it was before.&nbsp;&nbsp;I set limits on Campaigns, which usually have very&nbsp; narrow parameters.&nbsp;&nbsp;For instance in the past a Campaign (when I was a&nbsp; kid) might include Resurrecting the entire, long-dead Kingdom of Pesh, and that&nbsp; went on a long time.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nowadays a Campaign might be, have the Basilegate&nbsp; infiltrate a town being besieged by the Bulgarians and see if the rumors are&nbsp; true that the Bulgars are employing some kind of Monster as an ally, and if so,&nbsp; kill it, so the regular Byzantine troops can lift the siege.&nbsp;&nbsp;So whereas when I was young a Campaign was&nbsp; Strategic and maybe even cosmic in nature (that was the goal), nowadays I run&nbsp; Tactical Campaigns with limited objectives. Just don't have time for the&nbsp; &quot;reshape the world stuff&quot; anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp;A Campaign is more like, &quot;let's take Palermo,&quot;&nbsp; than, let's plan and execute the Invasion of Russia.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5767386, member: 54707"] [FONT=Verdana]Well, if ya count all kinds of Role Playing Games then about five or six reached an ending I planned, more if you count "reached a suitable but unplanned ending." My RPG Campaigns used to be of the longer variety, one running about 5 years or so (it was AD&D).[/FONT] In that one my players (I was DM) topped out at about 16th level, with the replacement guys hitting about 12th, and a couple of the big guys being KIA or sacrificing themselves at the end. [FONT=Verdana]If you count Wargames then I've finished a lot of campaigns, but they usually run a few months in length. Ran one in Stalingrad that ran about 9 months.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]But I don't have a lot of time to play nowadays, I have family and businesses to run and projects and inventions and social stuff and charity and occasional case-work and what-not.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]So nowadays a Campaign is a very different thing than it was before.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I set limits on Campaigns, which usually have very narrow parameters.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]For instance in the past a Campaign (when I was a kid) might include Resurrecting the entire, long-dead Kingdom of Pesh, and that went on a long time.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Nowadays a Campaign might be, have the Basilegate infiltrate a town being besieged by the Bulgarians and see if the rumors are true that the Bulgars are employing some kind of Monster as an ally, and if so, kill it, so the regular Byzantine troops can lift the siege.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]So whereas when I was young a Campaign was Strategic and maybe even cosmic in nature (that was the goal), nowadays I run Tactical Campaigns with limited objectives. Just don't have time for the "reshape the world stuff" anymore.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]A Campaign is more like, "let's take Palermo," than, let's plan and execute the Invasion of Russia.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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