>3 year long campaign
>it's my favourite campaign I've ever gotten to play in
>GM gets sick of it and drops it in the middle of a story-arc
>never got to do any of my character's big plans
>wasted the last 3 months of sessions following another PC's whims (that changed every single session every time he learned something new)
>GM starts running d&d 5th edition a month later for his co-workers
pain.
It’s a DM’s market. If you don’t like it become a DM yourself you lazy entitled gay.
moron
You don't have to like it, but you DO have to accept it. GM burnout is just a fact of life.
>someone suggests you do work
>start screaming
yea you are
Fuuuuuck that. Sounds like decent and reasonable advice, honestly does.
This worked the first time maybe third time. I'm on try ... I don't know, I've lost count and it's been decades of RPGing now. When I DM my players are good with the games I run, hell sometime they'll even admit to liking them. I'm not sick of DMing but I'd KILL to play as a player in the setting of MY choice, because I want to drive the story. Despite DMs being "in control" as any good DM will tell you they are never in control of where the player's take the game.
And when someone else does stepup (which is regular enough I'll admit). It's some setting or homebrew that I couldn't get two farts about.
>I'm not sick of DMing but I'd KILL to play as a player in the setting of MY choice, because I want to drive the story.
You think this when you're a forever DM but then when you actually do get to be a player the other DM just has you doing tedious shit like "kill the rats in the sewers" or "clear out these ruins of goblins". If you want something done right you really do need to do it yourself.
>If you want something done right you really do need to do it yourself.
I feel like this is a becoming a time looping. That post was in reply to that exact sentiment.
>be the game you want to see in the world.
Sounds good, But this board gives contradictory advice. I posted in the GM gripes thread about a prospective group bailing, Leaving my second option to post an open invite at FLGS.
An anon told me an open invite was a bad idea, As they had negative experiences, Then in another thread a different anon said a generic open post was his most effective way to screen a new group.
Analysis paralysis
If you're going to "waste" the time gaming give the FLGS option a try just to know that you had. Don't let fear stop you. Those are two examples which should embolden you to know that a positive outcome might very well be possible. There's a chance of failure for everything.
There's no better feeling as a GM than ghosting your players. You know they want more of it, but you don't want it enough to keep up with all the work, so you just bounce, knowing full well you can simply run a game again if you so desire.
I suppose different strokes for different folks because when I GM that it's not one of the places satisfaction comes from for me.
Perhaps it is because I keep in contact with all of my former GMS who are worth a damn so well I feel like I'm part of a smaller percentage of those who take part in table top role playing games and that's really cool, I don't really think of myself as some rare creature that gets to Lord it over everyone else by denying them access to what I have to offer.
Instead I think of myself as being able to have fun in a collaborative game in a way that most other people won't or can't.
A very humble and logical view "Most people won't or can't". I'd imagine a lot more CAN than you suspect but they're too invested in immediate gratification for the give and take of mutual tabletop hallucinations.
Fuck you Jerry Seinfeld, You owe us closure!
As someone who is in that position yes it really hurts.
But given that the GM was getting sick of it and clearly wasn't burned out, you should probably have stepped up to find out what was making them feel sick of it and help fix that.
Keeping a GROUP going is as much the players responsibility as it is the GMs.
>B-but muh tailored character arc!
>Muh personal storyline!
Gee, wonder why the GM burnt out
>party just does random stuff for three sessions straight
>DM stops giving a fuck
You forgot the players have to make the game interesting too
I wanted to get back to having fun and doing normal stuff, but if I tell another player "hey, nobody else gives a fuck about your character's inane ADHD desires" he'll get offended and whine and then the group just does whatever he wants anyway.
>see if anyone else enjoys it
>ask gym for notes
>run it, if you’re so great.
Also I would never ask anyone to run a single campaign for 3 years without breaks. That would become mind numbingly full for most people unless it was a high fatality game ran adjacent to a regular open one shot night
I used to feel sorry for Preston, he had great ideas but they kept getting more out there and grasping as he saw there really wasn't any big secrets coming out of George. Now he's just a youtube/streamer salesman, and comes up with stuff for the dollarydoos
I've just finished a 3ish year campaign myself.
Loved it, loved it to death, tons of things I still wanted to do, the DM was willing to keep going. But it was my fellow players who you could tell wanted to wrap things up and 'finish' the campaign. So DM wrapped it up, pretty satisfactory, did a wonderful job in my opinion. I still have things on my plate as a player I wanted to do.
Then one of the other players jumped in the DM seat mid season, lighting fast, we rest to level 1, and between the rapid reset and lame homebrew we are in? It's been roughly 3 months in and I. am. bored. out of my mind.
>3 year long campaign
>never got to do any of my character's big plans
What the fuck moron. What kind of absurd fucking plans did you have from the get-go? Either the game was shit or your expectations were.
DMing sucks ass. I’ve only ever DMed two one shots and I didn’t enjoy either experience. I don’t understand how someone can be a forever DM. The only reason I made those one shots was to give my forever DM a chance to actually play. I go into all games with no expectations for the DM. If the DM realizes midway through the campaign that DMing is fucking awful and then ghosts the group, that’s perfectly understandable to me.
Who’s the woman GRR is thinking of? Also, nice pizza
>Who’s the woman GRR is thinking of?
Some german porn actress that he got to perform a paper in the tv show.
A porn star who played "Shae" in the game of thrones tv show
Sibel Kekilli, for the research-minded.