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<blockquote data-quote="merwins" data-source="post: 7883330" data-attributes="member: 6829883">I went back and read the OP. This was the main question. There's probably a LOT of reasons. I'll toss out a few in sketch-mode, some of which may have already been covered. Keep in mind I'm bouncing between GM and player mindsets. 1) There's a lot of shiny stuff out there. New adventures, new splatbooks, new systems. If you're stuck in one campaign, you don't get to try them. And a lot of the new stuff is for lower levels. 2) There's a lot of shiny stuff slipping through your hands. Different personalities you want to try, different classes you want to experiment with. If you're a player in a campaign, you have to &quot;settle&quot; for the character you've got. 3) There's a lot of competition for your attention outside of gaming (TV, RL, shiny stuff). Campaigns require a little bit of time to plan out, at some point. Less time than learning a new system, but time, nonetheless. Playing a game is far less of an investment than GM-ing. 4) Like any other invested activity, campaigns require discipline. I don't mean to say that a GM who can't maintain a campaign is undisciplined, but then again, based on my own experience in the past, I do. It's easy to think that the grass is greener elsewhere. 5) Sometimes you have to push through a scenario you don't like to get through one that feels worthwhile. Or you have to find the good parts of every session.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="merwins, post: 7883330, member: 6829883"] I went back and read the OP. This was the main question. There's probably a LOT of reasons. I'll toss out a few in sketch-mode, some of which may have already been covered. Keep in mind I'm bouncing between GM and player mindsets. 1) There's a lot of shiny stuff out there. New adventures, new splatbooks, new systems. If you're stuck in one campaign, you don't get to try them. And a lot of the new stuff is for lower levels. 2) There's a lot of shiny stuff slipping through your hands. Different personalities you want to try, different classes you want to experiment with. If you're a player in a campaign, you have to "settle" for the character you've got. 3) There's a lot of competition for your attention outside of gaming (TV, RL, shiny stuff). Campaigns require a little bit of time to plan out, at some point. Less time than learning a new system, but time, nonetheless. Playing a game is far less of an investment than GM-ing. 4) Like any other invested activity, campaigns require discipline. I don't mean to say that a GM who can't maintain a campaign is undisciplined, but then again, based on my own experience in the past, I do. It's easy to think that the grass is greener elsewhere. 5) Sometimes you have to push through a scenario you don't like to get through one that feels worthwhile. Or you have to find the good parts of every session. [/QUOTE]

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