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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AntiStateQuixote" data-source="post: 2936261" data-attributes="member: 30770">I had a very similar idea recently that my group has not yet implemented: shared DMing duties in shared campaign world with really short stories per "campaign."  When I say really short, I'm talking 10 sessions at most.  Rotate DMing duties among four or five of our group who like to DM.Reasoning:1) Every game I've played or DM'd to significant length has reached a burnout point LONG before "the story" was complete.2) Several of us want to DM, but no one can seem to "keep it together" for the long haul.  I played in my longest campaign (as a player) and the game lasted about 30 or so sessions before the DM reached a breaking point.  I'm currently running Drow War (session 21 last Friday).  I'm near burnout now.3) I like to do lots of different stuff.  So do other people.  Running the same character for years . . . eh, not so interesting.4) High level play is not as fun as mid and low level play (for most of my group).  After 20 or 30 sessions . . . well, we're getting into the upper end of mid levels and the fun:work ratio deteriorates for DM and players alike.So, we work together, invent (or borrow from a published setting) a compelling game world and then tell stories at various times/locations in that world creating a shared history, stories, mythology, etc.Ideas for short run campaigns:1) Pirates!  I really want to play and/or DM a game where the PCs are pirates.  I can't see running a long-term (years) campaign doing this, but five or six sessions would be cool!2) Thieves Guild: again, a short run of all the PCs being members of a thieves guild has lots of appeal.3) WAR!  Let's have a war . . . let's let the PCs be commanders/decision makers in this war . . . but let's not have this be PCs that were 1st level neophyte adventurers 35 game sessions ago.4) Political Manuevering: how about a little PvP action on the political scene a la World of Darkness . . . only we're not vampires . . . 5) Dungeon Crawls: there are tons of great dungeon crawls out there that we'll never use because they "don't fit the campaign!"  Screw that . . . let's make up a group of PCs just to run this one cool dungeon crawl.Eh, you get the idea.  All those really cool stories you see/hear about, but never get to do because they don't fit in your campaign . . . who cares, now they fit . . . somewhere/sometime, so run the story and have fun!</blockquote>

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