Weird Situation/ Dilemma

[Belen]

So, my group has been on hiatus since the end of August. I have hosted/ GM'd the group almost every Saturday for four years, so a break was probably in order.

The weird thing is that all the players have faded away! One was abducted by another ENWorlder, another decided to quit gaming and yet another moved to a new city to start grad school. It evokes a very sublime feeling.

As for gaming, I just took on the job of running a weeknight group for beginners, so I still get to game and I am trying to recruit new players for the Saturday group, but still.

Weird.

 

[Telperion]

Weird.

*shrugs*...not from where I'm standing. I just had to cut a perfectly good campaign short because my studies are demanding more and more of my time. Peoples' interests shift (not necessarily in a permanent fashion), life changes (new studies, new job, tighter deadlines, etc) and generally new circumstances can play havoc with regular schedules.

It's something that I have, as a DM, lived with for a lot of years. In my experience students are particularly suspect to dramatic changes in schedules, moving to other part of a country (or moving to a whole other country) and so on. I tend to keep my games fairly short and "to the point". It's not that I railroad any more than the next DM, but I just don't create so large campaigns anymore. This is a relief, after a fashion, because those massive campaigns I used to create never got finished.

These days I feel much better about having a realistic chance of completing a campaign without the whole gaming group changing or having to stop the campaign myself for any number of reasons.

 

[Belen]

It's not a massive campaign. Just a weekly group that dissolved. Very surreal as that is the longest running group I have ever had.