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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 8512600" data-attributes="member: 70468">I have done something similar. My group got started back in college. We played 3e then 3.5e. The group’s composition changed, and we ended up doing other games like nWoD, Dogs in the Vineyard, and Unknown Armies. When I started running again for our current iteration, I ran Pathfinder 1e. We played a full Kingmaker campaign and then tried various other APs. Rise of the Runelords went well until we TPK’d due to some bad decision-making by the players (“You didn’t heal up before the final encounter? I think you would have done that. Do you want to retcon that? No? Okay … ranger dies on the AoO and then it snowballs). Eventually, I just started burning out on PF1.It started when I gave Dungeon World a try. We did a short campaign. It was very silly. I also ran Murder in Baldur’s Gate with one of the last 5e playtests, which was a lot of fun. I also ran Tyranny of Dragons when 5e came out. I then did a Pathfiner hack of Fate, ran another PF1 campaign (that I cut short), and Open Legend for a bit. Most of these “flip-around” games lasted more than a few sessions but none of them were something we really wanted to make our main game (even though that may have been the assumption at the time). The only games that lasted a few sessions were OSE and WWN. The former because my players bounced off it pretty hard, prompting a switch to WWN, and the latter only technically because I’m now running an OSE/WWN hack rather than straight WWN.Looking back over the last decade or so of my evolution as a GM, I’d say there was a period of experimenting with different systems to try to find the right one that worked for me and my group. I generally lean more Story Now and OSR than my players, but they really like 3e-style crunch. It was a constant struggle trying to balance using a system that kept me happy as a GM with one that had enough bits for them. What we’re doing now seems to finally fit the bill, or it’s something I can modify as necessary. It helps my players are usually willing to run something else, so I get exposure to other games and how they do things without needing to stop what I’m doing.</blockquote>

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