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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 5195174" data-attributes="member: 1225">Depends on the campaign; if you're running a covert ops game, then another team can go in to Fakeovia try to stop The Evil Scheme. But if the PCs were on a personal mission (e.g., all from one village, and they died trying to avenge the destruction of their village), playing another group of people who happen to try to take on the personal mission of a bunch of strangers isn't really the same. It can feel kind of lame, like a bad comic book retcon. (And like a comic book retcon, what feels lame will vary from group to group and person to person.)And sometimes it's just time to try another campaign/game/whatever.Edit: One reason I think it can feel lame to me is that it does (or can) feel like starting over with a whole new &amp; different group of characters who are pursuing the same task as a previous group is like a cheat to get out of the failure. The characters all died; they failed to accomplish their goal. Now here's a second group of characters, who will pursue the same goal. Thus, I, the player, get another try. It's like the situation in other threads where the character gets a second chances to avoid failure; maybe it makes sense and works &amp; everyone's cool with the second chance, and maybe it doesn't, and it feels ham-handed and lame. It's the same thing, applied to the group of players as a whole. You lost, by a wide margin (everybody died!); a second try will often seem lame.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 5195174, member: 1225"] Depends on the campaign; if you're running a covert ops game, then another team can go in to Fakeovia try to stop The Evil Scheme. But if the PCs were on a personal mission (e.g., all from one village, and they died trying to avenge the destruction of their village), playing another group of people who happen to try to take on the personal mission of a bunch of strangers isn't really the same. It can feel kind of lame, like a bad comic book retcon. (And like a comic book retcon, what feels lame will vary from group to group and person to person.) And sometimes it's just time to try another campaign/game/whatever. Edit: One reason I think it can feel lame to me is that it does (or can) feel like starting over with a whole new & different group of characters who are pursuing the same task as a previous group is like a cheat to get out of the failure. The characters all died; they failed to accomplish their goal. Now here's a second group of characters, who will pursue the same goal. Thus, I, the player, get another try. It's like the situation in other threads where the character gets a second chances to avoid failure; maybe it makes sense and works & everyone's cool with the second chance, and maybe it doesn't, and it feels ham-handed and lame. It's the same thing, applied to the group of players as a whole. You lost, by a wide margin (everybody died!); a second try will often seem lame. [/QUOTE]

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