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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5767770" data-attributes="member: 463">Most of my campaigns reach a planned or natural climax point.&nbsp; They often tootle on a bit after that then fade out.&nbsp; Trying to recall specific significant campaigns:'80s &amp; '90s:1. AD&amp;D age 12-13, I don't recall a climax ending.&nbsp; Actually, there was barely a consistent world, either.&nbsp; But plenty of fun.&nbsp; We played Fighting Fantasy, too.2. Paranoia age ca 14-15, don't recall any climax, just lots of fun.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />3. AD&amp;D age ca 14-18 &amp; subsequent to ca 22, but the main campaign ended when the PCs defeated Graz'zt's champions and saved the world.4. &amp; 5. AD&amp;D ca 16-21, two single player AD&amp;D campaigns where the PC reached demigod &amp; then quasi-deity level before getting killed.All of those but the Paranoia 1 were same-universe &amp; same rules stuff though, they could be seen as a single mega-campaign.&nbsp;&nbsp; Things back in the days of childhood were a lot less compartmentalised.Post 2000:6. 3e Gaxmoor campaign(s), climax at ca 17th level when PCs turned back the Mongali Horde.7. 3e Lost City of Barakus, climax at 7th/8th level when PCs killed Devron the Lich.8. 3e Willow Vale campaign, climax at 6th-8th when PCs destroyed the Master of the Desert Nomads.9. 4e Vault of Larin Karr game, again ending ca 8th level, the Battle of Pembrose was sort of a climax, but game ended in bathos when 2 PCs got burnt up by some hell hounds &amp; the 3rd ran away.10. 1e AD&amp;D City State online game was a picaresque, no real climax.That must be leaving out tons of campaigns though, like Sector Antaris, a Traveller PBEM I ran in the late '90s, or the Ea: Time of Chaos pbem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5767770, member: 463"] Most of my campaigns reach a planned or natural climax point. They often tootle on a bit after that then fade out. Trying to recall specific significant campaigns: '80s & '90s: 1. AD&D age 12-13, I don't recall a climax ending. Actually, there was barely a consistent world, either. But plenty of fun. We played Fighting Fantasy, too. 2. Paranoia age ca 14-15, don't recall any climax, just lots of fun. :) 3. AD&D age ca 14-18 & subsequent to ca 22, but the main campaign ended when the PCs defeated Graz'zt's champions and saved the world. 4. & 5. AD&D ca 16-21, two single player AD&D campaigns where the PC reached demigod & then quasi-deity level before getting killed. All of those but the Paranoia 1 were same-universe & same rules stuff though, they could be seen as a single mega-campaign. Things back in the days of childhood were a lot less compartmentalised. Post 2000: 6. 3e Gaxmoor campaign(s), climax at ca 17th level when PCs turned back the Mongali Horde. 7. 3e Lost City of Barakus, climax at 7th/8th level when PCs killed Devron the Lich. 8. 3e Willow Vale campaign, climax at 6th-8th when PCs destroyed the Master of the Desert Nomads. 9. 4e Vault of Larin Karr game, again ending ca 8th level, the Battle of Pembrose was sort of a climax, but game ended in bathos when 2 PCs got burnt up by some hell hounds & the 3rd ran away. 10. 1e AD&D City State online game was a picaresque, no real climax. That must be leaving out tons of campaigns though, like [I]Sector Antaris[/I], a Traveller PBEM I ran in the late '90s, or the [I]Ea: Time of Chaos[/I] pbem. [/QUOTE]

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