I Will Post No More Forever

[thundershot]

This reminds me of when I used to play Fortress Maximus in a Transformers MUSH. It got to the point where they needed me ALL the time, and if I was missing for a night, people freaked out and went on without me, causing me to get lost. I'm talking MAJOR plotlines that didn't need to be done. My wife would be upset because I was always on the MUSH whenever I was home, and I couldn't get out... (It WAS fun, and man, I was Fortress freaking Maximus, leader of the Headmasters!) So... my vacation was coming up, and I took it... and never returned... just disappeared... It was hard at first, because I wanted to know what was going on, but eventually I moved on...


And returned to Dungeons & Dragons.

Yep. Giving up MUSHing got me back into D&D (after some time off), and I've been gaming ever since. This was 7 years ago.



Chris

 

[Zogg]

Oh, the horror!

Ok, fellow enworlders, place your bets. Will Tom Cashel be true to his word? Will he adopt a new hobby like bowling or spelunking and never return to RPGs? Or will he enjoy a brief vacation and then, much like the Tell-Tale Heart, hear that incessant knocking, "louder! louder!" and tear up the planks in order to return home to enworld?

My money is that he'll be back before Christmas.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Sad to see anyone go. I know where you are coming from.

My suggestion? Do what I did.

Tell your players you are taking 3 months off. Let your mind cool. Rest. Sleep.

Reboot...

Start a new campaign. Set up a schedule. Stick to the schedule. Game every other weekend. It will give you time to cool down before you need to start thinking about the game.

Thats what I did, and it worked wonders. By the time the 3 months was over, I had ideas coming out of my ears!


Also, every DM likes to play now and again. Thats what you should be spending your message board time on. Run a game every other weekend, and play in a good messageboard game. Sometimes being a player, even on a PbP game, really helps you as a DM.

Just my two coppers. Take from it what you can.

 

[Ysgarran]

Enjoy the reading and the writing.

If it isn't too presumptuous please come back in a few months and let us know what you've been reading....

Ysgarran.

Anyway, I'm off to do a lot of reading and a lot of writing that's been patiently waiting for me to get around to it. You can use this thread to say goodbye, to say good riddance, or to say any darn thing you like.
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[hong]

Dear Zogg,

Tom Cashel does this better than you.


Y0r Fr3ND,

 

[Hand of Evil]

We shall see.

You can always be a Game Theorist!

 

[WizarDru]

*To answer the inevitable question: I quit D&D because my campaign reached critical mass. There was no escape. My players refused to take a turn DMing. My players refused to take a few days off from the combined live meeting/message board format. My players refused to focus on anything but the rules in the PHB, to the detriment of their own success and my fun. When I failed to check the boards for even two hours or so, my players decided that they would DM themselves online. At the end I was expected to DM 24/7. Cue up your copy of Misery to witness my DMing experience during those last few months.

Is there an actual game being played in there? "Live Meeting/Message Board format"? Huh?

Well, OK, then. TTFN.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Yeah. I understand how you could get burned out on D&D. It happens to everyone. But even if you never pick up the dice again I hope you still drop in from time to time. I really enjoy your posts and it would be a shame to never see you around here again.

Take care Tom.


"Sometimes you get the bear....sometimes the bear gets you."

 

[jgbrowning]

Gaming's an inverse square relationship: the farther away from it you get, the more you want to do it.

joe b.

 

[Desdichado]

Gaming's an inverse square relationship: the farther away from it you get, the more you want to do it.

I've been a living example of that principle lately; my actual gaming has been extremely skimpy the last four or five months, and I've got a jones to game like you wouldn't believe.