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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 1063627" data-attributes="member: 6783">Thanks for the link, but that's not quite what I meant.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Yet again I seem to be posting while too tired.  Sadly at this point that 'tired' word applies to a lot of things.Sunday I ran the group's fourth or fifth session through the City of the Glass Pool.  It was somewhat anti-climatic.I can lay the blame at a number of factors.    Factor #1, least importantly, is the party's level.  They're 16th level now.  The endgame in the City of the Glass Pool was a cakewalk. Factor #2, My original motivations for running this game (beyond liking the module) was to bring a couple friends back into gaming and take the rules out for a spin to see what happens.  It was an experiment.Factor #3, I think I'm nearing burnout.  I've been DM'ing for three years straight - and for two of those years I've been DM'ing two games - every week.  My only breaks are when I've taken vacation or we had a critical mass of no-shows.  Sunday was a bad DM day - the group was powerful, but I had two 12th level clerics and a host of lesser ones that could have caused some problems.I'd rather not take a big break now.  I just had a month long hiatus due to various vacations in our group.  Also I like DMing - but it's obvious I need to change things if its going to continue to be a challenge.What does this mean to me?  First I'm going to take another couple weeks off to think about the game.Second, the game is no longer an experiment.  It's a disservice to the players to continue treating it as such.  They're at the high end of the power spectrum and nearing the final third of the game.  I don't want to increase the power level of the creatures before the final city too much - That's a spiral death deathtrap of experience.  What I do want to do is make the remaining critters and powermongers more interesting.Finally I need to change the way I DM a bit.  I've been pretty permissive throughout the game.  It's time to bring in the consequences for some of the party's actions.  But I don't want it to be the DM's fiat of 'you're too powerful so I'm taking away your toys'. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Part of what I hope to get out of this thread is some help in dealing with some of these issues.  I'd also like it to be a conversion resource for those who are running the game.Anyway, that was way too much unloading, but I needed to get it said.  Thanks for listening.  Next post will have some characters.</blockquote>

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