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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 1560352" data-attributes="member: 15582">moderate expecations with lower results for a while until lately.For a while, I was doing a lot of gaming, but not being really selective about my groups.*For the longest time, I ran a game at a game store on Saturdays. I felt like a T.V. set, people hopped in and out of my game simply because there wasn't anything better to do. My story centric games never went on more than a few sessions. Basically long enough for the player to do whatever shtick they designed their PC to excell at and then my games would die. d20 was a savior in that so much as people would play anything as long as it was "DnD." In the end, I ran a very combat centric game where I didn't even fudge the dice rolls. PC died on a regular basis and suddenly I became a popular GM. Earlier this year, I "retired" so as to have more of a life.*I played in quite a few DnD game that started out promising, intersting history a new world with a twist ... and then about the third session the GM in each campiagn would pull out their favorite old school megamodule or module series and run the group through it. Suddenly subplots that were started were forgotten since we now lived for months underground or in the mountain, etc. From there the quality of games had to be judged on how much real work the GM did in accuarately converting the module to 3.0 for the current CR of the party. Lately, I dropped from those game to work more on my other hobby, ficiton writing.* Now I only play in a bi-monthly Champs game. Half the time is spent in investigating the huge conspiracy arc of the game, the other half is beating up super thugs to get even more clues. Half the team doesn't even have secret idenities yet, which might haunt them soon. The GM runs an abbrevated Champs system and uses a laptop to do it. "30 mini-missles shoot out at you in the danger room *tap,tap,taptaptap, etc.* only 2 hit."Now I look forward to my two games with excitement again. Hell, I even show up early to hang out with the GM's family.</blockquote>

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