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<blockquote data-quote="Valmur_Dwur" data-source="post: 331212" data-attributes="member: 5065"><p>All very good stuff<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=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp; I agree with the burnout you said you've been at it for over a year!&nbsp; Take a break from DMing.&nbsp; Either play as a pc and let someone else DM or go away from it totally for a month or two.&nbsp; Then pick up a book of a genre you like not Fantasy and read.&nbsp; It gets the blood and brain juices flowing again.&nbsp; IMC a pbem the party become &quot;spies&quot; and I use that term loosely for a king.&nbsp; They are free to go whereever but must report back at certain intervals.&nbsp; This allows them to run amok around the countryside and perhaps start to uncover your insidious plot.&nbsp; And truthfully by this level they should have accquired &quot;things&quot; I agree not &quot;magic&quot; but at least a small tower or keep that people can live out of, the mage can create items which leads to many an adventure.&nbsp; Fighters can train the local miltia and then about that time an invader from across the sea appears.&nbsp; Hold the line and then send them off.&nbsp; Or by now the outer planes should be beckoning, have a devil running loose from a gate created by someone and the party needs to go into the gate to the other side to close it.&nbsp; Of course they may need help getting home.&nbsp; And finally, no one says that because you have a creature that can kill the party that they will.&nbsp; The same devil could be wanting to use the party for some other plan like killing a rival devil.&nbsp; Then you have the angnst of doing dirty work for a despicable boss til you are able to lay the smackdown on him.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Valmur_Dwur, post: 331212, member: 5065"] All very good stuff:) I agree with the burnout you said you've been at it for over a year! Take a break from DMing. Either play as a pc and let someone else DM or go away from it totally for a month or two. Then pick up a book of a genre you like not Fantasy and read. It gets the blood and brain juices flowing again. IMC a pbem the party become "spies" and I use that term loosely for a king. They are free to go whereever but must report back at certain intervals. This allows them to run amok around the countryside and perhaps start to uncover your insidious plot. And truthfully by this level they should have accquired "things" I agree not "magic" but at least a small tower or keep that people can live out of, the mage can create items which leads to many an adventure. Fighters can train the local miltia and then about that time an invader from across the sea appears. Hold the line and then send them off. Or by now the outer planes should be beckoning, have a devil running loose from a gate created by someone and the party needs to go into the gate to the other side to close it. Of course they may need help getting home. And finally, no one says that because you have a creature that can kill the party that they will. The same devil could be wanting to use the party for some other plan like killing a rival devil. Then you have the angnst of doing dirty work for a despicable boss til you are able to lay the smackdown on him. [/QUOTE]

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