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Message: <blockquote data-quote="enrious" data-source="post: 5767464" data-attributes="member: 2126">I played in H.S. and college, but in those days there wasn't really much of a sense of a campaign with a planned end - you played until a tpk, people got bored, or it got too high a level to have fun.Starting with 3e (when I got back in), the following have been completed:1) Scarred Lands - did the Serpent Amphora trilogy of modules.   Really loved the setting, keep meaning to go back there one day (or import it into my homebrew)2) World's Largest Dungeon (ok, technically they gave up on the last map, but after a year in the campaign, that was an acceptable end - it was one of the planned options)3) Ptolus - campaign lasted a year and a half, was so much fun we're playing in another Ptolus campaign4) Kingmaker - Although we only played through 5 of the books as by the start of the 5th book, I was suffering DM burnout (from my style of ad hoc DMing, even the sandboxy nature of Kingmaker was confining to me, like a pair of briefs 6 sizes too small), the players were pretty burned out by the kingdom building (which by then we'd ditched and switched to just narrative format), and the fact that I wasn't happy with the way the AP flowed (or didn't) into the 6th book.Now let's look at the ones since 3e that didn't complete on schedule:1) IRC game set in the Forgotten Realms involving a mercenary company.  As I recall moving ended it or some players couldn't play anymore. (I still use a gnome pyromaniac from this campaign in my Ptolus games as a background arsonist NPC)2) A FR game with neighbors, ended when all of us ended up moving at roughly the same time.3) A Ravenloft game.  Ended when it got a point when we players lost faith in the DMs ability to not make it a tpk every session.   Kinda funny now, but with more familiarity and time spent playing, we consider him to be the best Ravenloft DM and trust him implicitly.4) A rail-road game to beat all rail-roads (did you know that goblins can spot the heads of 3 PCs who are lying in tall grass at a distance of over a mile?  They can if the DM needs the goblins to attack the PCs), this one ended when two of the players had a meltdown and the other players elected to excise them from the group.  As one of the two was the DM, the campaign ended.5) Mutants and Masterminds campaign #1 - lot of fun, but ended with players moving or having their work hours changed.6) Mutants and Masterminds campaign #2 - still fun, but quickly the complexity of it started to bog things down and make it unfun.7) Midnight - still regarded by all of the players as one of the most fun, it ended somewhat prematurely because of the death of a PC, which revealed that for all of the Players (and DM), that character was sort of the heart and soul of the campaign.</blockquote>

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