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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7883310" data-attributes="member: 20564">So I'm in an odd place, simply because we let a finished campaign open back up.  And founder.We finished a campaign. 1-7, ran about 2 years. Very satisfying conclusion. People liked their characters a lot. One player near the end had an important competing commitment for our regular game night so we started alternating that main campaign and a filler game.After the campaign ended, the DM started a new campaign. But it started at 3rd and several players grumbled some that they wanted to play higher levels.One player asked if he could run a one shot for the characters of the finished campaign. It turned into several adventures, but had a rather different feel. He only wanted to run a bit, he'd much rather run. During that time he was free with XP and the group just hit 9th.So ... the original DM has gotten it in his head that we wanted to run those characters.  He won't run two campaigns at once so he put the new campaign on permanent hiatus, and took back up the continuing adventures of the first group. Which had completed the campaign arcs (the Dragon War and the refounding of the lost kingdom) that had interested them.One player didn't want to continue her character, so she was making another. And then others started wanting to try new ones. And then it got to be most of the group, and a few hold-outs no longer wanted to play their old character transplanted into a new group. So at the end, there's only one original character plus one occasional "guest star" original character (a player who only occasionally can make it).So now we have this campaign, that's not the growth of the current crop of characters, but we have to deal with the fallout. Starting 9th. Okay, not bad. But we closed down a campaign that was going well with fun characters to do it simply because it got in people's heads to continue, but we're not really continuing either.It feels unnecessary - I much would have continued the existing new campaign then resurrect a satisfyingly finished campaign, but not really.</blockquote>

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