Just wrapped up a campaign.

[pooryorick@lemmy.world]

I recently joined a second game with a different group as a player, so I still get my individual play time. Some of my players will also likely run one shots or small adventures in the interim while I do the next campaign prep, but they are adamant that they don't want to run any long form stories.

[pooryorick@lemmy.world]

It really does, and there are always some loose dissapear into the weave over the course of a campaign, but there is a huge high from pulling years of work into a final epic encounter and conclusion.

Plus, the debrief at the end where players can ask all the questions about loot they missed and which characters were actually doppelgangers is always fun.

[tachyontele@lemm.ee]

That's really cool to me. Your being a story teller, writing a series. Add in the player spontaneous and that's got to be pretty fun, I imagine

[notmyoldredditname@lemmy.world]

And then the players look in the big dark cave, and John turns around and says, I'm getting really bad vibes here, let's skip this one, and the party agrees and continues to the pub looking for another adventure.

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

Don't even ask me about the side trip into a dragon cult's lair when my kid and the group I was running decided to completely ignore a dozen preplanned hooks and go haring off through the woods instead.

[addie@feddit.uk]

Unless they plan to stay out of caves forever, then eventually they're going to stumble into the one that you have planned...

[pooryorick@lemmy.world]

It is a great deal of fun and tremendously addictive.

[notmyoldredditname@lemmy.world]

After a weary day of traveling, the group finds a nice tiny cave to sleep in for the night. While asleep, a wolf attacked and shocked John. John rolled a 1 on his constitution check and then rolled a further 1 on his emotional check. John now has a permanent fear of caves preventing any further cave exploration.

[tachyontele@lemm.ee]

I want to play. No one I know plays though. So I live through you guys here haha

[pooryorick@lemmy.world]

The caves are alive and have developed a taste for poor John. They yearn to feed, and their howls sound through the night like gusts of wind through the trees.

John knows the hopelessness of inevitability. Some day, they will find him. Some day, he will wake up deep in the bowels of the caves, and his cries will add to the howls of the caves on the wind.

[maggiwuerze@feddit.org]

Ah that's cool. I always feel bad for DMs that don't get to play themselves