I love the game and would love to continue it... but I also don't want it to be a chore for anyone involved. So if things have to end... I just wanted to let you know that I wouldn't hold it against anyone who felt the time has come.
We're at the tail end of finals and reviewing seasons, so there are 12 papers and 22 tests between me and freedom. So "May"ish is still on target.
I won't lie and say that burnout isn't part of a factor. PBP DMing does take a bit of time to do it the way I like, and especially w/ working towards tenure this year, that time hasn't been there. Dealing w/ the system is a bit of a chore too: I finished my AoW game last year and said I'd never DM 3.5 again which is true except for this game. (I still like
playing 3.5, but DMing 4E is much more my preference for DMing).
To resolve this, I've been thinking of ways to trim some of the "fat" off of the adventure. The Castle is a huge dungeon, and dungeon-crawls don't work well in PbP anyway in my mind. The stealing of the relics, RBDM I am (that is
not in the original addy), works into this. Ideally, I hope to have only one or two trips into the Castle before this is all said and done. We'll see how this works.
And we're finally getting to a part of the game I've been hiding for two years. That alone will be worth it.
