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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5322700" data-attributes="member: 29398">Aha!  There's your mistake, perhaps - you're trying to keep the same group together all the way through.  Won't happen.  In a long campaign, players will cycle in and out over time...it's a fact of life.Right now my Friday game has three players, of which one has been continuous since day 1 and the other two have replaced others who have left.  But it's still the same trace-ably continuous party, story, etc...and more important, it's still there if any of those who left eventually want to/are able to return.Fair enough.  I've done this in the past, only to realize later that I might have reasons for wanting to revisit that game.  Now, if I'm going to end a campaign (usually because I've simply run out of ideas for it) I'll just let it go, leaving it intentionally open-ended for later revisiting if so desired.  This also works to the players' benefit: if they had a PC in one game they'd really like to see brought forward to the next (once it fits re level etc.), it's easier to do if the old campaign was left open-ended.If you're only running canned adventure paths that view makes sense.  But if you're looking to run something bigger and-or homegrown, the world you build is also the mine you extract your stories from.IME they collapse after having resolved quite a lot, but not everything...  There's a big difference.Lanefan</blockquote>