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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5399165" data-attributes="member: 23935">I am making no assuption as to whether the current DM remains a member of the play group or not.  That is immaterial.  What the DM offers is not tied to what the player group decides to do.  Any person in the group can offer to start something new.  The group decides whether or not to change from current to the new offering.  Typically, in my long-term group, multiple people put forward proposals that the group chooses between when campaigns fold or even prior to the campaign ending and the group decides to pursue those proposals that catch its fancy.I'l use my long-term group's current situation as an example.I've been running a D&D campaign for about 6 years.  I took over from a different GM who was running d20 Modern game.  My campaign started as a "fill-in" when the whole group couldn't get together or the DM wasn't prepared to run his game.  Within 6 months, it was the main campaign and the d20 campaign shut down.  The former DM is at the table still.My campaign is getting a bit stale.  Over the summer, another player suggested running a fill-in Hero-games Traveler-esque campaign to give me a break.  That ran for about 5 months and we picked up the D&D game again.  The group discussed where to go with the D&D campaign and we agreed to the campaign would run at least as far as the completion of the current adventure.  The group expressed interest in wrapping up an overarching "save/damn the world" plotline that could take another 2-3 months.  At the conclusion of that plotline or earlier, depending on PC success, the campiagn will be reviewed.  I'm expect to present 4 proposals: <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Continue the campaign, but with a different social contract as to PC interaction.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Press the reset button and start D&D 3.5 at first level.  First order of business would be to discuss what optional rules / house rules are in play.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Start a AD&D 1e game for nostalgia's sake.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Play a modern supernatural investigative campaign I've been working on for a few months.</li> </ol>I expect at least one other in the play group will present a different proposal of what the group will do next.  If that proposal is to take over the current D&D campaign and the group accepted, I'd be happy to hand over what notes I have and roll up a character to play in it! Do I believe I can dictate what the group does? No.  Could I produce a group that played whatever I offered?  Certainly -- but it wouldn't be this group.  Could I dictate what that group did?  Not if I changed the parameters of the initial game offering.</blockquote>

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