Ya ever wonder?

If you're the problem? In the last decade, every single game I run ends up collapsing due to GM burnout.

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  1. CWRDecember 5, 2021 at 10:37 AM

    I don't worry about it personally - though I think that's a common way for campaigns to end. The key is to figure out how long it takes before you lose interest in your own milieu and aim to run a week less than that. Or find a way to transition to a different part of the setting - have the PCs retire characters, maybe - to somewhere else that gets the juices flowing again.
    Keep it fresh, my man!
    :-)

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