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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DungeonmasterCal" data-source="post: 2466727" data-attributes="member: 5388">None of mine melted down, though I did have one that collapsed and fell into a swamp.  Early autumn of 2001, my long time group and some other old friends reassembled to being a new campaign, with me as the DM.  Eager to try out the 3e rules, we opened the doors to lots of variant races and the like.  I had in mind a long, epic story arc that would take the players from first level to immortality; invasion by a Yuan-ti army, opening portals to other planes to bring in aid in their nefarious schemes, etc.Well, my inexperience with the 3e rules, my inexperience with high level characters (by the time they were knocking on 12th level I was starting to flounder), infighting within the party and gossip among the players about each other and the personal tensions caused by all that, and the constant bitching and whining by one of the players about how horrible 3e was and how much better 2e was and why the hell weren't we using those rules, I started to lose interest.  My adventures became just by the numbers games with no inspiration, and the final straw came during a climatic battle with extraplanar assassins in the party's headquarters.  One of the players had been playing a barbarian, but decided to shelve him for awhile in favor of a cleric (something they needed).  He and I talked about bringing the barbarian back after his "vision quest", and we decided it would make a great dramatic moment to bring the character back during the fight with the assassins. The party wasn't holding up well, and so with a crash, the barbarian storms through the door.  The player who griped about 3e threw his dice in the floor and shouted, "If he brings that character back I'll never play this g*******d game again!"  I shrugged and said, "Ok", then turned back to the rest of the group, only to watch them cave and whine, "Well, I guess if that's how it's going to be, maybe the barbarian needs to not come back."  I was so furious, I said the assassins all killed themselves and gave out no XP for the encounter.I tried to run a few more games after that, but lost total interest in the game.  A couple of the guys want me to pick the campaign up again, but I just can't do it.  And that's the reason I became so burned out I've only just now begun to take interest in DM'ing again.*looks around*...sorry...that went on a bit, didn't it?</blockquote>

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